Importance Of Teachers For Teachers

Teachers deserve more credit, plain and simple. After spending the majority of my life submersed in education, I find myself disgusted with the lack of awareness people have towards teachers. Not only are they mentors for youth, but they also handle every behavior known to mankind and are not paid nearly enough for their efforts. In my opinion, teachers should stand at the top of the scale when it comes to respect, and unfortunately, that is not the case.

Once children begin Kindergarten, they spend more time around teachers than they do their own parents. Naturally, teachers become mentors for the youth simply because they witness everything that happens behind the curtain of secrecy that lies between a parent and child. In that respect,

My Grandma, a former teacher herself, once told me that when it came to disciplining naughty students, a paper and pencil was more effective than a ruler. She said, “parents physically punish their children enough the way it is. If you want to encourage a child to learn, then imprint them with words, not belt marks.” As a young teacher myself, I understand her logic. It is challenging to act with patience rather than anger when a child misbehaves, but that is why teachers deserve more credit. They possess the wisdom needed to guide and assist students as tantrums, drama, and fights occur. Not many people acquire that trait throughout a lifetime, the ability to remain calm in the heat of the storm, so having that is gift worth recognizing. Teachers are also forced to put up with a lack of effort from students, and discovering ways to motivate an unmotivated person is quite difficult. Not only that, but teachers also strive to turn a student’s weaknesses into strengths. It takes a special human to not give up on a child, especially one that isn’t even related, but that’s why the world needs teachers, people that won’t give

The amount of thought, motivation, respect, effort, and consideration a teacher puts into his or her students is not reflected in their paycheck. But, I don’t mean that solely in terms of money. Teachers are not paid with respect either When it comes to comparing prestigious jobs, teachers sit fairly low on the list. Their salaries are joked about with disregard to how much of their paycheck goes back to funding projects for their students. A teacher’s salary is humble, it reflects the humbleness that being a teacher entails. Teachers do not yearn for fortune or fame though, they desire to give rather than receive. In return for their efforts, teachers do not retain as much kindness as they dish out. If only every complaining, biligerent, misbehaving student and parent would have to be a teacher for a day, then maybe teachers would receive the credit they so rightfully deserve. Every student should go through the process of lesson planning, being talked back and complained to, and called boring, until he or she realizes that teaching is one of the most challenging jobs in the