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Do you have what it takes to be a teacher

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By : anna lucas 99 or more times read

Submitted 2009-10-21 09:33:34

Training to be a teacher really starts when you get your first job but of course one has to go through the process known as teacher training before one can even apply for that job.

College life and handing in essays, attending lectures and demonstrations are just red tape requirements. The awakening comes when you are informed that you will be going out, in your first year into a school, albeit for only several weeks. If you survive that then you are sent out in your next year only this time it’s for a bit longer.
It’s an exhausting time but does it really prepare you for life as a teacher. On teaching practice say in a junior school you are allotted a certain class and even though you have to be prepared and have to teach them their real class teacher is always on hand and at the end of the day whatever has gone on well you can go home and maybe start thinking about the next day.

If you are a subject teacher in practice in a secondary school then the same thing applies. You can do your best but in the back of your mind you know that in only a few weeks you will be gone from here forever.

The big shock comes when you get that first job and you and nobody else but you are responsible for your class or your subject. The buck stops with you. Even though your first year teaching is a probationary year you still have to take full responsibility. That’s when you realise what you can and can’t do. I can think of two very good pieces of advice and I would gladly pass them on to any new teacher.

Firstly, don’t smile at all for the first three months and secondly never, never ever tell a child off last thing on a Friday afternoon. Teacher training is definitely not restricted to colleges or universities. Rather it starts with that first job and depending on your luck and fortune continues for at least the next ten years.

Parent teacher meetings have to be the most hated meetings whether you are a parent a teacher or both; and you really have to have a sense of humour to get through them.
The teachers sit behind tables with a register, mark book and piles of copies for support. The parents stand in queues holding scraps of paper with the names of all their child’s teachers scribbled on in haste while looking for the car keys. The subjects are also somewhat linked with the appropriate teacher.

The parent sits down and after the initial introductions when the teacher realises he doesn’t have a clue who little Johnny is he miraculously finds his name and can do a quick reference to his mark book which in turn programmes the expression he is going to have on his face when he looks up at the anxious parents waiting patiently for his verdict.
Parents go in determined they are going to have their say; they are going to let Johnny’s geography teacher know that they are not happy with the lack of homework, or the remarks he puts in their child’s copy. But the moment they sit down even though they try to speak their piece nothing comes out and they just listen to what the teacher comes out with in order to get rid of them as quickly as possible.

Parents are bewildered when the teacher who seems young enough to be a student tells them their child is rather quiet. Can she be talking about our child? Can she even know who he is? Yes she does and she insists that he is really too quiet and needs to come out of himself.

The teacher waits anxiously looking for a break in the endless queue so that he can go outside for that cup of tea or coffee. Its not that he particularly likes tea or coffee, but the need to get away for some respite is paramount. Then he returns and sits and waits for the inevitable, the parents who are treating this as a night out and just don’t want to leave.

His smile becomes weary as he assures them their child is an excellent student.

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