Hi guys,
So today I’m going to talk about things I don’t like about
my profession. First, let me tell you that I love teaching, I love knowing
about English and comparing it to Spanish, but there are things that are not
necessarily inside the classroom that bother me.
I work, and have worked, in different universities, public
and private, and every institution has its own model of classes and teaching, so
as teachers, we need to adapt ourselves and the contents to the way we are
supposed to teach in each workplace. Unfortunately, not all universities have
the students in mind when developing a teaching program, it’s all about saving
money in resources, so we usually have classes with many students and we need
to teach many different contents in a restricted amount of time, and this is
complicated because it means that if the students are having problems with a
particular content we do not have the time to focus on that for a long time
since we need to keep on moving to the next content. As teachers, or good teacher,
we care if the students are learning or not, but as people who need to make a
living, we can’t go against the universities because that would mean that we
could lose or jobs the following semester, because university teachers are
usually hired for a semester at a time.
I must say that another thing that I don’t like that is
inside the classroom is when the students don’t care about the class. It’s
demotivating for the teachers and that’s when a lot of teachers say, what’s the
point? What’s the point of teaching if the students don’t want to learn? What’s
the point of preparing classes if they arrive late or leave early? This doesn’t
always happen, and it’s not usually an entire class, but when it happens a
question is raised, who is supposed to motivate who? The teacher to the
students? The students to the teacher? Or both together?
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Write about what you don't like about the profession. Include:
- Specific aspects of what you don't like
- Do you see any possible solutions for those aspects/problems? Who can solve them?
Any other relevant ideas
Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher’s post
Word count: 230 words
