My thought as a teacher.
I still remember, a few years ago I didn’t want to be a teacher. Even though I was accepted as a student in English education major which is, of course, expected to be a teacher in the future. At that moment, I just wanted to be accepted as long as I am not a student in private university. Then *tadaaaa* here I am right here right now I am a teacher. It’s funny, isn’t? it seems like God want to say, "I have given you this precious opportunity. You want it or not, YOU.HAVE.TO!”.
Every year on November 25th, we celebrate National Teacher’s Day and also every year on this day I reflect to myself “am I good enough to be a teacher?”.
Sometimes I am proud to be a teacher. When they understand the lesson, when they could achieve their goal because of that lesson, when they say thank you after the class, when their parents thank me because I could handle their child’s bad behavior & be nice right now. But sometimes I am not. I am so frustrated when they never understand what I deliver, when they are tantrum, lazy, not interested at all, parents complain about small thing, coupled with public perception that teaching is easy (which results in..…low salary wkwk maybe). Please, believe me IT.IS.NOT.THAT.EASY.
How could the teacher give maximum effort to teach, think of the best teaching activities, join lots of teaching development trainings to update skill, meanwhile they have to think about whether they can still eat tomorrow or not, whether there is still money left or not, whether they could get the salary this month or not?
We, teachers, are like candles. Willing to burn to light up the surroundings.
Moreover, teachers are often distracted by temporary goals, starting from grades, exams, accreditation, administrative assignments and things that are too “small”. We need to remember the main purpose of education is to build civilization. Do you think Japanese can be smart, civilized, disciplined because the teachers do this complicated school administration process?
In addition, there are other problems of educational misconceptions in Indonesia itself. So far, parents think that educational problems have always been carried out by educators. Even though education is not only obtained from school factors, but parent, environmental problems and friends also affect.
Have you ever heard a proverb “it takes a village to raise a child”? THAT’S IT! EVERYBODY. Listen to me. EVERYBODY should contribute. I know & understand you are so busy with your work/business, too tired, no enough time to do so, but I have a lot of real evidence that between students who are educated at home & cared by their parent & families and those who are not, the output results are very different. They tend to be more intelligent and active.
For government, hmmm, I don't want to be arrested because of the ITE Law or whatever it is that gets me jailed (wkwkwk) but we know Government is ALSO one of the key role in our education system.
I want to say thank you for all teachers, educators, education volunteers, and many more out there who have done many things every day without waiting for policy changes from the Government. It means a lot to them, the students/children that we love.
Your dedication, kindness and wisd will always lead those students to be better human beings.
I got a quote from a book, that I still not finished reading yet (*hueee*), “How to win friends & influence people”. Herbert Spencer says,
“The great goal of education is not knowledge, but action.”
So for all dearest students or whoever read this, I hope the knowledge that we achieve is able to be returned to the people around us.
To make a better living.
To make a better world.
One more time, happy teacher's day!
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What I can say about Teachers day is that I'm not really happy because our teacher is not there on teacher's day, I'm jealous of those who celebrate teachers day, but it's okay we were able to celebrate when our teacher came home and it was fun because we surprised him and we didn't think that he will also give us a present.💕
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