After
reading back on my BlogPost, I have come to see that there are a few subject
areas that I constantly talk about. The first area that I talk about is how teaching
has to be a passion. If someone enters the profession of teaching and they don’t
love the kids and what they have to do, they aren’t going to make a positive
and lasting impact on their students. The students are there to learn and they
look up to their teachers. Teachers play a huge role in the development of each
student. Teachers have to be able to love what they do. How much a teacher
cares about his/her students, focuses on teaching each kid, and goes above and
beyond to do their job are the qualities that make up a great teacher. Leading
off of the qualities that make up a great teacher, is how teaching is one of
the most important jobs that there are. Teachers have such a big job and a huge
responsibility when it comes to shaping children and their learning. Teachers
are shaping the future generations. Since the role of a teacher is so big and
important, then the big question that every teach wonders is, why are teachers
so underpaid? Since teaching is such a demanding job and it is effecting the
future generations, then why is it constantly disregarded? Teachers ask
themselves this all the time. Teachers work just as hard as everyone else. They
are there from morning to evening teaching kids, helping them if they don’t understand
the lesson, dealing with parents, grading, assigning homework, and so much
more. What people don’t realize is all o the behind the scenes things that
teachers have to do. They have to come up with lesson plans, go to meetings,
hold conferences, grade, etc. Most teachers also have families, so after a long
day of teaching and hard work, they most likely have to come home and take care
of their families. A day for a teacher is just as hard, if not harder, than
other workers. Since teachers have all of these responsibilities and duties,
you would think that they would get paid more for all of their hard work that
they are doing to create a positive and lasting effect on the future
generations of the world.
When
I think of education, I think of kind, caring, and genuine people who love what
they do and want to positively influence their students. I think that those
qualities lead to one becoming a great teacher, Teachers are special people who
care about others and take the time to help teach their students. If someone
wants to be a great teacher, they have to obtain the qualities that make a
great teacher. When it comes to teaching students who are planning to major in
education how to be a great teacher, I think that it is beneficial to have your
students take a look inside themselves and then have them ask themselves “Why
do I want to become a teacher?” If there is a genuine response to this
question, then that student has the ability to be a great teacher. I think that
the philosophy of education is simple; love what you do. If you love and care
for what you do, it will lead to great things and great outcomes for you in
your field. Especially being a teacher, the most important thing for you is to
love your job. Waking up every morning should be easy because you are excited
to go and see your students. If you love what you do, it makes you great at
what you do.
My
hope is that I find a great school with wonderful students who want to learn
and respect me as a teacher. I hope to be able to impact their lives in some
way because I am good my job. I hope that once I get into the field, I love
going to work every single day to see my students and to see what kind of
things that my students and I could accomplish that day. Where I get this
belief of loving what you do is from my mom and my other teachers. My mom is a
teacher and after constantly talking to her, she always tells me how much she
loves her students and going to work. The teachers, who I consider to be great
teachers, love getting up every day and coming to work. You can tell how
passionate they are about their job and how much the students mean to them. I
think that it is also important for a teacher to remember that not only can
they have an impact on their students, but their students can have an impact on
them. Knowing how much their students want to be there and learn allows for the
teacher to want to be there. Also, according to a few academic journals I read,
it showed that student-teacher relationships are very beneficial when it comes
to a student’s learning. This is because a student wants to feel comfortable in
the environment that he/she is in and they want to make the relationship with
their teacher in order for them to feel safe and like they can trust their
teacher. After further looking into this topic, I would like to further
investigate how exactly these relationships are beneficial for the student.
Whether it helps the student learn, communicate, with self-confidence, etc. I
want to be able to identify the main places that student-teacher relationships
benefit and help develop each student. I also want to see if the relationships
differ based on gender and if it is easier for one gender to form a
relationship over the other. The qualities that make a great teacher are the
most important thing when it comes to looking at the philosophy of education
and the formation of student-teacher relationships. These main key points, also
lead back to the big question that all teachers and those majoring to become a
teacher ask themselves, “why are teachers so underpaid?”