The teaching profession in many countries is not really valued and people always complain about teachers & teachers complain about the lack of support which they say isn't there. Why is it such an undervalued profession when they are teaching the children of the future. Adults learn the most important things and develop values/attitudes at a young age shouldn't they be getting the best education. Why is the degree for university one of the easiest, a lot of the courses don't even include psychology in the degree?
2007-09-25 21:13:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Social status depends on many things. Many blue collar jobs now earn more than many white collar jobs, but the people doing them don't achieve higher social status.
Partly the problem is that in our current social status is based on aspirations (not money) but on our desire to suceed, keep learning and get better.
Teaching is not really an aspirational job. You start as a teacher and you will finish as maybe a senior teacher. You don't really go anywhere.
Maybe we need to change the way teachers live their lives. A school teacher invented the telegraph (and stolen by a guy named morse) the submarine and I believe Chairman Mao was a school teacher before he became the leader of China.
So, if we want to get better teachers we need to have a greater amount of career diversity. We need to allow teachers to move on to other things but still stay in their career.
Yes the courses are easy, because it is the only way to attract enough teachers into the profession.
2007-09-25 21:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a teacher, I have found that a lot of people seem to think that teaching is a profession that you enter for good pay, short hours each day and good holidays. People who believe this probably don't know a teacher and the workload involved, but it wouldn't make you think highly of teachers. It's a false conception really - people who become teachers for those reasons rarely make good teachers.
2007-09-26 12:41:06 · answer #2 · answered by possum230 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree I have been teaching 8 years in Detroit, Michigan, USA and we have no supplies or parental support. I cannot tell you how many times I have spend my hard earned money to go to the store to buy an new winter jacket for a kid who has been freezing all winter. I have bought lunches weekly for kids whose parents do not send lunch and never filled out the "FREE LUNCH application." I am not going to let a poor kid starve.
I have bought pencils, paper, all kinds of stuff that I need to TEACH what I am supposed to....ok, I will stop....but you are right
2007-09-26 10:20:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya i agree with u
2007-09-26 09:26:31 · answer #4 · answered by radhika k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋