What is the most difficult aspect of teaching today?

Answer 1

Doing everything you legally can do, everything you must do for standardized test criteria, everything you need to do to facility learning, everything you want to do to inspire your students to learn, and everything you can do not to slap parents who think raising their child is your job and the childs problems are your fault (even though you've only known the child for 2 weeks!!!), and doing all of those things with a smile on your face and love in your heart every single day!!!!!

Answer 2

Keeping up with the newer methodologies for some for others it might be the lack of authority teachers are allowed to exert in the classroom. It also depends on the schools where teachers work which offer new challenges he/she is unaware of before starting out. That is where the teacher has to examine what procedures are before he is reported as not following certain practices. I am thinking of private language schools here but that may apply to other schools as well. Another difficult point is finding what stimulates the student enough for them to be alert and receptive in class instead of being unwilling to learn. In the end what is most important is what you think the most difficult aspects of teaching might be because everybody has his weak points and strong ones.

Answer 3

dealing with the students and their personalities.. Also when we dont get enough support as teachers from our Administrative staff. Growing up, there was no such thing as corporal punishment. If we had to punish the student in a appropriate way, parents were more understanding. Teachers are scared of the kids because there are no consequences for their actions. If teachers didn't have to teach like their robots.. more kids will be learning.. going back to the basics is what some of these kids need. Parent support and involvement.

Answer 4

The most difficult aspect of teaching today is the "misguided attempts" that tend to hamper effective classroom instruction.

New Initiatives, State standardized testing; No Child Left Behind; Curriculum Mapping; Professional Learning Communities, Professional Development Plans; and an endless--senseless--string of meetings.

For those teachers that will testify that something mentioned above is the end-all of teaching, then please refer to my "misguided" caveat.

While each thing above CAN be an effective tool, many times these tools are misunderstood, knee-jerk reactions, applied haphazardly.

Good Luck....

Answer 5

Biker babe wrote, "Your question should read aspect(S).Teaching students who are immature, have a strong sense of entitlement, huge egos, lack of ambition and study skills, and pompous older parents who think that their children walk on water. Couple this with shortages of funding, school boards that are run more like businesses and tying the teachers' hands behind their backs when it comes to any meaningful discipline....have I left anything out??? this is just the tip of the iceberg"

DITTO!! This says it all. Most of today's students are narcissistic. They and their parents think they can do no wrong. They think they and any work they produce is perfect, so when they get criticized, all hell breaks loose and the parents are in the office complaining.

Answer 6

I think students are coming to school with more problems than ever before. They are coming to school hungry or upset because their parents are getting a divorce. I had a student the other day who was having a really tough day and it was because his mom and dad got into another huge fight on the way to school that morning. I know there have always been problems, but with the increase in divorce and things like that it is really making the kids' lives more tough and makes learning much more difficult!

Answer 7

Your question should read aspect(S).Teaching students who are immature, have a strong sense of entitlement, huge egos, lack of ambition and study skills, and pompous older parents who think that their children walk on water. Couple this with shortages of funding, school boards that are run more like businesses and tying the teachers' hands behind their backs when it comes to any meaningful discipline....have I left anything out??? this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Answer 8

I would say that it is trying to meet the needs of all the learners in your class as class sizes increase and support decreases. I teach a class of thirty-six Grade 8 students. Seventeen of those students are ESL and about six others have behavioural disorders and/or learning disabilities. I really want everyone to succeed, but I just can't be in six places at once. Class size should be capped at twenty-five students and parents need to be willing to have their children tested for learning disabilities so that they can receive the support they need.

Answer 9

Having to "teach to a test" - I would rather provide my students with the necessary skills to be able to take apart a problem or situation and feel they handled it the best they could. Then there is always the never ending paper work and unsupportive adminsitrators!

Answer 10

Testing, testing, testing! Teaching to the test. There are way too many standardized tests that children have to take now-a-days. Another thing (for me) is having the LEP children (and parents) recognize the importance of homework.