what do you think of the career of being a teacher

God, does the bible say that i am hard wired to be a teacher? i m standing nowhere that is specific.Soooooooooo far

Bill, I've been offered higher-paying jobs, but I love what I do. I don't want to change until I retire. The rewards are not monetary or material. They are, instead, spiritual.

so if there's one chance back and offered you a better paid job, what's your decision.......have you ever at any point wanted to shift...you know, Joanne, schools are supposed to be purily vibed, but in China, these years we take the appriciations to teacher too seriously, i mean, before we expressed our gratitudes to our teachers after graduation mainly by words, but we extended to bombarded meals in restuartants,sometimes when those fanancially disvantated family squize their purse tight to just deliever a thank-you meal to teachers, or they might be spelled undecent by others who already had done it behind their backs. Ok, that's weired enough though as a new fad, but now people themselves are turning things bad into worse. the meals upgraded into downstream educations as well, kinder gartens, primary schools, junior highs. after graduation, it is not time to relax any more, but time to prepare thank-you meals to your kinder garten teachers, little sweetie. No wonder people complain the fee to support a child's education is much burden-taking.

so,at which point would you flip out in your teaching career?

The struggle with teaching for me was two fold. One was with the system... it's an enemy to the student sometimes! The other struggle I had was with students who didn't want to learn. I can work with someone who struggles greatly but desires to learn... but the ones who just don't want to do it... those mess me up!

I just can't agree with you more,teachers are frontlines to change!

I taught as Elem. Grades Teacher in the hinterland barangays of the Municipalities of Paranas and Motiong, both of W. Samar (Philippines) from 1964 to 1974. There as teacher of the lowest rung of the educational ladder I was beset with all sorts of challenges. Besides my teaching load, I was looked up to as doctor, population officer, election officer, mailman, marriage counselor, marriage sponsor, baptismal sponsor, population census officer, etc. Yes- I was a teacher and an agent of everything before my pupils and their parents. Depending on what kind of teacher you are will depend likewise the cooperation you'll get from the parents. In barangays before, school building construction, repair, fencing, school ground upkeep and improvement depend largely on self-help or bayanihan. These things were accomplished with the teacher(s) and the parents shouldering the expenses for the materials. The labor- thanks to the parents- were all done by them. Times now have changed. School buildings, chairs and other school facilities are now borne by the government. Despite the low salaries teachers are paid and the attendant dangers teachers are exposed to like swirling and raging flood rivers and the constant threat to their lives of being placed in a crossfire between the NPA and the government forces, all i can summarize is TEACHERS ARE FRONTLINERS TO CHANGE. THEIRS IS NO DOUBT A NOBLE JOB.

Chinese teacher spent millions of RMB to seek stuff in USA or England, than come back teaching in college earning 5000 rmb, and be sure, not easy promotion, especially financially

That's a great point Bhojarajan, as without teachers, we can not move forward educationally :) Thanks

yea, i was indeed not an excellent teach tough, i could not make it more "plicit", rather than implicit

It's quite suprised to hear from my friend that the lower the education level is, like kinder garten, primary school, the higher education level he should gain if he is going to be the teacher in the US, surely the university is off this rule. is it? surprised, but have to admit it's the best for the children growth. when a child is at his blank-paper stage, we got to write things good and correct there. But in China, sort of pathetic that in most areas children are receiving the less than correct knowledge from the out-of-choice teachers. Cite an example, if your english is good enough, you won't be a teacher, especially a primary or junior/senior high teacher. you will right away pop up into something better.ironically schools collect not only students, but also firstly collect lumpen job seekers.

Good point Gandy, it is very important as we need teachers for everything not only in schools but at works and many places

yea,to be a teacher, make sure you got be tough to not be scared away by the students