about my job..
I have been working as a teacher at school for 6 years... It's very hard work really and i had different situations during my work experience...some days i was coming back home feeling dispair with tears in my eyes, because i had problems with communicating with teenagers and all the educational system itself is not perfect at all in my country.. and was ready to leave me job maany times. Some days i feel so much enthusiastic about my job and feel burning desire to work, get new great ideas every day..
And now.. i have way to leave this job.. and i don't know.. how i can change it for something other...
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Multigrain, thanks for your comments, i was really glad to hear other teacher's opinion about my problem. I have several hours per week in primary school this year and i fully agree with you that small children are the most difficult group to work with. You have to give all youself to them in order to get good result, but i'm sure its really worth when u see their happy faces and their eagerness to learn. Yes, you are right that i need to find "my" age group of students, but situation at school where i work unfortunately doesn't give this choice, so i have lessons with different age groups.
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Thanks for your comments very much, it was very interesting for me to know your opinion. What would I like to answer to Minhhale is that really I realize that I was concsious about all the challenges in my job when i was choosing it, but I had chosen this way myself and i have to work, not to complain. And as for teenagers, frankly speaking, i enjoy communicating with them, and they like me also. But the problem may be is that I cannot be enough strict with them, so they see me too soft and its difficult for me to keep discipline at the lesson. As a result i don't achieve the goals of the lesson and feel frustrated because of it.
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I tutored English for a brief year. Taught elementary school kids, junior high, adults, and last of all a whole class of kindergarten kids. I am not trained in education, so I did a lot of studying by myself and just went with the flow. However, I found kindergarten the most difficult bunch for me to deal with (I'm better one on one), and at the end of every class I felt like I was hit with a storm and a high fever. I never went back to that. I would still tutor older kids in the future, but never kindergarten again (especially when you're not talking to them in their native tougue). Ever!
I guess it comes down to whether you belief if it is worth it for you. Take your pick, and never look back. I have a different idea from minhhale.The past six years won't be waste, because you would have learnt whether education is the right path for you. And some people work better with older kids, younger kids, maybe you just need to find your age group?
Just some personal opinion here.
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When you decided to follow this career of being a teacher, you decided to take the challenges it entails. This includes dealing with difficult teenagers. So if I were you I'd stop being emotional, stop complaining and just... accept it. That's it, accept the challenges and find some ways to deal with them.
Except for when the challenge is too, well, challenging, then giving up might be one alternative, albeit all your 6 years would be worthless. Can you tell us why you find it hard to communicate with teenagers? I'm a teenager myself here.
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