How rewarding is a teacher’s work when she receives those great ‘’thank you’s ‘’ ?

Have you ever admired a teacher?

 As for me I haven’t ever dreamt about it even when chosing  the University where I should study the English language as a profession.  Only after having worked at school for more than ten years I realized what it is to be a teacher. Teachers do so much for changing the world ‘’one child at a time’’. It’s a noble goal, isn’t it?

 Recently I have hear something about myself as a teacher and was greatly pleased  and felt flattered , to tell the truth. I have two parallel seventh grades . The seventh A is better than the seventh B . T he learners of the seventh A are better in  many other ways  than the seventh B. In spite of all this I make more efforts to teach those who are the seventh B graders both as a teacher and as a pedagog. It’s not that I may sympathize with them more , but it’s because I know they cannot handle the seventh grade state curricula in other subjects , either . And what I heard from my colleagues was more than just a ‘’thank you’’. I’ve been prodding these poor kids since the third grade , I have actually shaped their character as much as I could, connecting almost all English lessons with life-like situations, adapting the text book to their needs and choosing the topics which THEY would like to study and making the term tests as much easier as required  and so on.

now I am gathering the results of my hard work  I have had influenced them in so many ways outside of education, that even their form-master confessed that her class really liked me from all other  teachers who have taught them so far. Now when I’m looking back at my lessons all these four years  I see that I’ve really done a lot of work but still more is ahead. I cannot say that they master the English language perfectly, but they’ve been trying and are trying their best.

The other day one of the greatest things happened to me , one of my colleagues has said these words about me ‘’ She was born to be a teacher and I admire her work , how she handles with those naughty and hyperactive and ill-natured and ill-prepared and ill-bred   25 seventh graders is just amazing, she has really changed them to someone better’’.First of all , never call your learners any of those words,on the second hand  never repremind them if they were not worth it, and never show them that you really think that  they have ‘’poor’’ abilities to learn .

To tell the truth I was really on the seventh heavens when I heard all this about me. It’s really not easy to be a teacher, one should be prepared in many ways both professionally and mentally , I mean a real skillful teacher should not only master the subject (or the English language is this case), but also they should be psychologically and pedagogically armed with different effective methods of teaching this or that skill and handling with this or that learner, treating with their learners as unique persons and individuals , with different needs and aims in view and abilities and characters and so on.

One of my learner’s mother has spent some years in jail (I only once had the ‘’lucky’’ chance to talk to her and later I learnt that she had been at temporary release.).

The other boy’s father passed away a year ago and has been beaten by his mother all that time, now he is just out of any control. When our social worker paid her usual visit to their house , she was just reaffirmed her belief in what we thought his mother had been doing.

Ok I’m not going to reveal the whole class’s story here in this blog, everyone has a story, I just wanted to tell you that every kid , every learner deserves better understanding from the teachers  who have taken the responsibility to guide their paths , to instill the never –ending hunger or pursuit of knowledge and to inspire the confidence to overcome the hardships along that  taken path……who knows from what family problems they’ve escaped before coming to school that morning!

 So , do you still dream of becoming a teacher?..Are you ready?