When we work with students, we work with persons.
Unfortunately, we may tend to lose focus as teachers. The bulk of responsibilities and expectations we receive from our duties may overwhelm us and redirect our views away from our real purpose that is to mould lives.
Our concern may shift from how we can make our students learn better to how we can make our work easier. Our goal may change from how to satisfy the needs of our students to how to fulfill the expectations of our superiors. Our efforts may aim at how to provide solutions to classroom difficulties instead of how to provide solutions to learners' concerns.
If we start shifting paradigms in these lines, we are not anymore working with persons. We are already working with situations. And, once we work with situations, we tend lose the enthusiasm we have towards the vocation we chose to live for. We start giving up the very reason why we are here as teachers. Ultimately, we realize we are putting all our efforts in vain, for our students, just like us, are persons, and we, persons, are far greater than the situations we are in.
Unfortunately, we may tend to lose focus as teachers. The bulk of responsibilities and expectations we receive from our duties may overwhelm us and redirect our views away from our real purpose that is to mould lives.
Our concern may shift from how we can make our students learn better to how we can make our work easier. Our goal may change from how to satisfy the needs of our students to how to fulfill the expectations of our superiors. Our efforts may aim at how to provide solutions to classroom difficulties instead of how to provide solutions to learners' concerns.
If we start shifting paradigms in these lines, we are not anymore working with persons. We are already working with situations. And, once we work with situations, we tend lose the enthusiasm we have towards the vocation we chose to live for. We start giving up the very reason why we are here as teachers. Ultimately, we realize we are putting all our efforts in vain, for our students, just like us, are persons, and we, persons, are far greater than the situations we are in.
