The first Sunday of October we celebrate Teacher’s Day. This year we celebrate it on the 4th of October.
Teacher’s profession is very difficult but much respected one. It is a bit hard to handle with many different personalities. Teachers can inspire us and change the world.
Teacher’s profession teaches all other professions in the world. Teacher is a person who helps students, give knowledge and care and love. We come to school at the age of 6 or 7 and teacher takes our hand and bring us to the classroom where she/he learned us how to read and write and learn the outside world. As Alexander the Great said:” I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well’.
I remember my first teacher. He was very strict teacher. My Mother chose male teacher for me because male teachers are strict. I was very afraid of my teacher. I learn a lot from it. He was inspiration to us and instrument for learning. When I was child my teacher asked me who i would like to be in future. I would like to be doctor. Then later i change my mind and now I am teacher of English like my Mother. My grandparent’s were teachers and aunts are teachers. So teaching profession is in my blood. I like this profession very much. I like to share my knowledge with my students.
Many can teach.. Only a special few can reach. Teaching is a work of the heart. And now i want to take a opportunity and congratulate all teachers in the world with their professional holiday. And wish them happiness, strong health and many, many good students.
Now i am very happy that i am teacher. Students are my seeds and plant them and grow it and look after it he whole year and at the end of the school year i gather my harvest. To be an English Teacher is difficult but if you know your subject well and if you are creative and have desire to teach it is o.K. use many games, songs and role plays in my class. The job of a teacher is to get students laughing and when their mouths are open to give something on which to chew.
Nowadays we have lack of subjects’ teachers in our country and qualified teachers too. I hope, in future this problem will be solved.
Teachers I believe are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affected the fate of the earth.
Helen Caldicott.
As I like quotes very much and always begin writing article or other essay with famous quotes. So here below some quotes about teachers.
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. ~The Talmud
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown
To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
Teacher : The child’s third parent.” – Hyman Berston
I want to share with you recipe of perfect Teacher. This recipe of perfect teacher we made when we were at the Teacher Mentor seminar in summer in Dushanbe.
A perfect Teacher
A perfect teacher must have such qualities:
* hardworking
*honest, kind and love her/his profession
*patient
*qualified
*tolerant
*humorous
*modest
*must always be in the search of something new
*support and motivate students
* friendly
*creative
*willing to participate in different seminars and trainings and conference
Do you want to know the story of creation of the teacher? Then you can read this how God created teachers andtell it to Angels.
THE CREATION OF THE TEACHER
God was creating teachers. It was His sixth day of ‘overtime’ and He knew that this was a tremendous responsibility for teachers would touch the lives of so many impressionable young children. An angel appeared to Him and said, “You are taking a long time to figure this one out.”
“Yes,” said the Lord, ” but have you read this order?”
TEACHER:
…must stand above all students, yet be on their level
… must be able to do 180 things not connected with the subject being taught
… must run on coffee and leftovers,
… must communicate vital knowledge to all students daily and be right most of the time
… must have more time for others than for herself/himself
… must have a smile that can endure through pay cuts, problematic children, and worried parents
… must go on teaching when parents question every move and others are not supportive
… must have 6 pair of hands.
“Six pair of hands, ” said the angel, “that’s impossible”
“Well, ” said the Lord, ” it is not the hands that are the problem. It is the three pairs of eyes that are presenting the most difficulty!”
The angel looked incredulous, ” Three pairs of eyes…on a standard model?”
The Lord nodded His head, ” One pair can see a student for what he is and not what others have labeled him as. Another pair of eyes is in the back of the teacher’s head to see what should not be seen, but what must be known. The eyes in the front are only to look at the child as he/she ‘acts out’ in order to reflect, ” I understand and I still believe in you”, without so much as saying a word to the child.”
“Lord, ” said the angel, ” this is a very large project and I think you should work on it tomorrow”.
“I can’t,” said the Lord, ” for I have come very close to creating something much like Myself. I have one that comes to work when he/she is sick…..teaches a class of children that do not want to learn….has a special place in his/her heart for children who are not his/her own…..understands the struggles of those who have difficulty….never takes the students for granted…”
The angel looked closely at the model the Lord was creating.
“It is too soft-hearted, ” said the angel.
“Yes,” said the Lord, ” but also tough, You can not imagine what this teacher can endure or do, if necessary”.
“Can this teacher think?” asked the angel.
“Not only think,” said the Lord,. “but reason and compromise.”
The angel came closer to have a better look at the model and ran his finger over the teacher’s cheek.
“Well, Lord, ” said the angel, your job looks fine but there is a leak. I told you that you were putting too much into this model. You can not imagine the stress that will be placed upon the teacher.”
The Lord moved in closer and lifted the drop of moisture from the teacher’s cheek. It shone and glistened in the light.
“It is not a leak,” He said, “It is a tear.”
“A tear? What is that?” asked the angel, “What is a tear for?”
The Lord replied with great thought, ” It is for the joy and pride of seeing a child accomplish even the smallest task. It is for the loneliness of children who have a hard time to fit in and it is for compassion for the feelings of their parents. It comes from the pain of not being able to reach some children and the disappointment those children feel in themselves. It comes often when a teacher has been with a class for a year and must say good-bye to those students and get ready to welcome a new class.”
“My, ” said the angel, ” The tear thing is a great idea…You are a genius!!”
The Lord looked and said “I didn’t put it there.”
Zeboniso
