Do You Teach To Live
Do You Teach To Live
Do You Teach To Live
Graduate School
Master of Arts in Educational Management
I am one of the teachers in our country who teaches in a private school. I am teaching for I think nine
years now. When I am in my first previous years of teaching I may say that I just teach, I do whatever I want to
do. Like failing students without any “due process” and I am happy whenever I saw my students having a hard
time in my subject. I was taking things for granted, I am quite ashamed of that, and do wonder if it affected my
teaching.
As I am aging in this profession and as many different students I encountered, I realized that when you
live your life in a way that on what you are doing every day is making you happy, full of surprises and curiosity,
you are certainly become a better teacher. By “better” I mean a teacher who instills those very emotions (and
more) in their students. That it is not always on what your student can do that can measure their learning but on
what you instill in their mind that they can carry for the rest of their lives. It is this kind of teacher that inspires,
that motivates and that draws kids in to inquiry. Of course, if this is true, then the opposite must also be true.
Many of us in this career are both blessed and cursed as a result. We do have the chance to keep going to
new places but we also develop a “grass is greener” mentality as we continue our search for the ideal place to
have a career. Perhaps we simply need the determination to become and remain a person who is fascinated and
surprised by life, curious about why things are the way they are and willing to take a wrong turning just to see
what is around the corner. Maybe then we can become and continue to be inspired teachers