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Remy
Occasional Poster Posts: 34 Registered: 29/4/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 15/6/2003 at 04:47 PM |
After going to school for almost fourteen years I'm gonna finish the last
of my exams in about a week. If everything goes smooth all these years at
school will be followed by five years at university which will finally lead
to me becoming a teacher myself. Since I came to that decision over a year
ago I always considered it to be just the right thing for me.
But some weeks ago I realized that being a teacher doesn't only mean to
convey knowledge to your pupils and to provide some guidance. I realized
that if you want to become a good teacher you have to be a person your
pupils can relate to and have trust in - which means that they also have to
be able to seek your help when they've got problems in their private lives.
I'm always glad if I can help somebody but I also know that there are
people who just want to talk about their problems to someone without
wanting any help at all. You basically play the role of a priest who just
listens to what one of his sheep has to confess and then tell them "Well, I
think that..." while knowing that everything you say to them isn't worth a
damn because all they wanted was somebody they could tell their story to.
I've already been in situations like that and although I think I managed
them quite well I don't know if I can handle them if they occur on a
regular basis.
I'm quite certain everybody had thoughts like this when he was in school
and had to decide what job he wanted to take after he graduated. And I'm
also quite certain that you spend more thoughts on a decision you made some
time ago when graduation is only a short amount of time away. But the
thought that this could be the rule rather than the exception doesn't
really help. ____________________ "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 15/6/2003 at 10:39 PM |
I say go for it. Weigh the pros and cons. You could be like me, work a
thankless mall job (tho it does pay well enough) and listen to people who
just want to talk and not help themselves, or you can have a job with
meaning, maybe help some kids that just want an ear or someone who cares,
and listen to them talk even if they don't wanna listen. You're gonna run
into those types EVERYWHERE, so why not spend that time you'd be wasting
otherwise letting a kid get something off their chest?
I think you may be exagerating the teacher/student relationship as well.
Yes, you may have some kids that want to talk, but most of them show up, do
what they HAVE to, then leave. I seriously doubt you'll be facing a long
line of jabberjaws with so much angst they could choke a horse in a math,
english, or art class unless you're profession of choice is school
counselor. If anything you'd probably find yourself persuing more kids to
"open up" and getting the cold shoulder than a group of sobbing teens
beating down your classroom door.
I think teaching is quite worthwhile, and with any job you take the good
and the bad along with it. I still keep in touch regularly with my
highschool art teacher, as we've always had a good relationship and got
along well even when he was my teacher.
I say go for it. Tho I don't envy anyone that gets to spend 8 hrs a day
with most of today's kids. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 17/6/2003 at 12:33 AM |
Weeellll....this is all very interesting. But I agree with Bettie in your
analysis in the relationships between teachers and students. The biggest
thing is that if you have a student coming and talking to you, they aren't
just doing it to vent their problems. By that point in time, for a student
to have come and spoken with you. means that they have a certain amount of
trust and respect invested in you. They aren't going to just want someone
to talk to. They have peers for that. They will want from you advice and
guidance that they feel you will have given you age and position of
authoriy.
If you aren't sure about the carreer of teaching, then I would suggest that
while you are doing basic courses, that you do A LOT of voluntering ant
local schools, in all grade levels. Not only can it help you decide whether
ot not teaching is something you want to do, but it can also help you
decide the age of the kids you want to work with. There are HUGE
differences between grade school, middle school, high school, and beyond.
I think teaching is one of the best things to do. Of course, I am extremely
biased, seeing how in a couple of years, I'll be credentialed. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 17/6/2003 at 10:45 AM |
Exactly. Kids don't just open up, and by the time they DO, and by the time
they find someone to open up TO, they've put a LOT of thought into it, and
aren't just going to yabber at you like they do to their friends. I did
have a teacher like that, and I did have some friends (mostly people I hung
out with because well...saftey in numbers you know). I bitched to my
friends. I TALKED to my teacher.
You may find that situation more readily in highschool students, but
gradeschoolers have their own problems now that are nothing like how it was
for me growing up. I thought good and hard about teaching for a while, and
I realised that I didn't know if I could handle it. You have kids who
really need help and won't take it or can't get it, you have kids that WANT
to have problems soaking up all your time and effort when it could be
devoted to the kids that NEED you, and then you have kids that have just
been so fucked up from day one that to tie them down wouldn't keep them in
control. You'll have kids that don't care about anything, and kids that
care too much. IN ALL grade levels. Some are just more tolerable and
easily dealt with. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Abbadon
Fanatic Posts: 499 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 17/6/2003 at 01:09 PM |
You cna never really teach people who don't want to learn. But don't take
my word for it, I learnt that the easy way. ____________________ Light is changing to shadow, and casting a shroud over all we have known. |
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