>Plan every class they’ll give one week ahead.
>Prepare all material for class.
>Stand on their feet for a minimum of five hours a day, excluding lunch and a professional hour.
>Know each of their students by name.
>Accommodate every Special Needs child in their class, no exceptions.
>Special needs may include: extra time for exams and homework, extra attention in class, stopping them from getting up and leaving their desks all the time, etc.
>Keep their cool when classes get rowdy. This is NOT as easy as it sounds.
>Control the classroom. Again, much easier than it sounds.
>Have an MA in their field just to get hired. Note that it’s their field (Science, History, etc) NOT in Education per se.
>Stop bullying, regardless if they were there to see it or not.
>Pay out of their own pocket if they need more classroom supplies.
>Always be willing to attend a parent or legal guardian. Regardless of the time of day or what you were doing.
>Be ready to confront angry parents over their children’s grades.
>Be ready to handle any emergency, no exceptions.
>Know when to call the cops on the students.
>Attend pointless meetings and workshops that leave you with nothing but the sour feeling that your time was wasted.
>Protect the students from all danger.
>Be wary that one parent complaining about them is more than enough to put their career in jeopardy.
>Learn that their work follows them everywhere, even home. ESPECIALLY home.
>Learn to correct homework and grade tests in a way that is fast enough to leave them some time to breathe at home.
>Learn to live with the fact that everything from their salary to their sick days is always one politician’s whim away from getting sliced.
>Accept the fact that society won’t give a shit about them because a teacher is little more to them than an over-glorified babysitter.
>Let go of the students they have invested so much time and effort on as they grow up. I still think of mine every day.
>Accept that children don’t come and go; they’re in your heart forever.
Teaching is not easy, guys. You invest so much time and energy into these people, be they young children or adults, it doesn’t matter. A REAL teacher can’t help but form an attachment to their students; some of us even come to consider our students as our own children. So, why does society overlook us so much? Do any of you know how little we are paid, in spite of how much we do? Sure there are some bad apples, but what about those of us who spend so much of our lives for the sake of our students?
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