Thursday 25 April 2013

Still wanna be... educators part 2

If you still want to become a teacher... even after seeing my last post than I think you should go for it. What I would really like is to know teachers such as the one from the film called Freedom Writers. The whole idea is to have a purpose and to consider it more than a job. I don't believe that you can totally separate your life from your career, especially if you are a teacher. This is certainly harder than for instance being an accountant (no offence to the world of accountants).

When you are working with children, you need patience... lots of it, and we haven't even talked about such upsides as the constantly changing educational system or the parents who think that education goes on in the school, and the school only, so they don't have to contribute at all. The solution could be to 'trick' the system, just like in the film, and create your own methods of teaching. Try to raise the interest of the kids, even if that means you have to use toy cars to illustrate maths, or you have to read essays about World of Warcraft in order to analyse the writing skills of the children. This is why you should be prepared for anything and everything when you go into a classroom. Good luck for all of you!

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