I've been reading many articles about the burden, struggles, stress and big problems that we encounter as a teacher. I too can relate to their rants and pleads especially for the heavy school works which need to be done on time.
Today, I ask myself after I reflect on what have I done for the past few days. Am I really into teaching? Why can't I extend my patience long enough for the students? Am I happy on what I am doing?
Then, I realized, I've been so stress these past few days because of the aper works that I need to finish, many studenta works that I need to check and the deadline of the exam that I don't know what topic should be included because I'm not yet done w/ my lesson for this quarter.
Because of this stress I've been too impatient to my students, I always raise my voice and can't control my anger.
We teachers are always at fault when the students would complain that we're too strict and crossing over the line. We are always the one to be blamed when the scores of the child are low.
Can't you understand the equation here? We are bombarded with paper works that's why we're too stress when we enter the classroom. We cannot control our emotions especially when you are exerting effort to teach but the students are ignoring you.
We tend to forget also how to deliver our lessons well because we're too preoccupied of the deadlines.
I am not working in public school. I am a private school teacher. This is my second year of teaching and I can say that the system in our school "sucks". The teachers have no voice to defend their side because it's like, parents are our stakeholders so they should be right.
The works that they're giving are too many but the compensation is not equal nor fair to the load you have.
Now, tell me, is teaching a passion to pursue for now or teaching is a job that we should get rid of if it's too heavy for you'll never know when this job will kill you.
I used to be a passionate person with my profession but now, I am starting to change my mind.