I Am a Teacher

I love educating children and watching them begin to learn and understand and opening their world to new information. I love helping them and I love being with children. I enjoy teaching in general- although the marking is annoying, it...

Our authority in the classroom is given to us by the parents of the children we teach. They are the ones who have authority, and therefore responsibility, for their children.  For six hours or so of every day those parents confer...

So to start: I went to school for Criminal Justice to be a cop, after achieving my degree and starting my career as a police officer, I was stopped dead in my tracks by...color blindness! Turns out I'm color deficient, therefore unable...

Your kid is a bitch. She's loud, annoying, mean and she isn't even smart.

Now that I've heard you go on and on about how great she is, I know where she gets it from.

I am a teacher. It is who I am regardless of what anyone else may think.For a while I was a "teacher". I used to teach music. Yet, it wasn't music that I loved to teach. I loved teaching. I loved to teach students about life, about the...

All my students do their Homework.  They all get to school on time.  They are impeccably polite and respectful in their address.  Their bookwork is exemplary.  On excursions we always receive compliments.

I am...

I am a new teacher. Like three months new. Last weekend a student was shot and killed. I never had him as a student but several of my kids did and it was heart breaking to see how they were affected by this tragedy. There were cops at...

Although the title of this group is called "I am a Teacher"
I am not exactly a teacher yet.
I am signed with the ministry as a teacher however I have never really taught a class before.
The reason why I want to be a teacher is simple- I...

I love teaching the kids, they are 3-4 years old, and sometimes a lot of work, but I really like what I do, been teaching for years.

In my career, I have come to learn that there is a difference between being ignorant and being stupid. Ignorance is far more easier to handle because a lack of knowledge can be quickly remedied.

Stupidity is more difficult because it...

I always knew I wanted to teach. I was meant to teach.
I absolutely love my freshmen. They are special - at the point where they are children, learning to be adults, who want to act like children and be respected as adults. I get to...

I am working my way through school to be a teacher. I'm currently going to classrooms and observing, helping where I'm needed, giving advice to students. I love being able to assist where I'm needed and I'm excited to have my own...

It All began in November of 2006. I heard through a chain of people that a band director had quit and they were looking for a replacement immediately. I still had another month to go with my student teaching, but i thought I'd throw my...

Since the new school year is just about to start, my thoughts naturally gravitate to my job. Today I’d like to tell you about my boss, the principal of our school. She definitely deserves to be heard of.
When I first came to work here...

Someone deleted and answer, maybe their question, about why teachers shouldn't have gone on strike yesterday. They too are from the UK, and forget to mention, or moan at the fact that most public sector workers also went on strike. They...

I am a part-time English teacher and I have been hired to teach this 7-year-old kid for 2 months. He has studied English since he was in kindergarten, at the age of 5 to be precise, and he's also studying in an English specialize class...

My principal was horrible, the hours were crazy, the boss was uncooperative at best, the parents were ignorant, the pay was lousy... but I never thought about those.
Only when I was reminiscing about it with an old friend did...

I have posted this story under a different title in another group but  wanted to post it here as well.
I work in a place that was badly wanted by a lot of people. I am a teacher in an independent school.  The parents of the children...

Read this to the end... it's sarcastic!Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, causing recession, and so we have to take the money from elsewhere because of these greedy teachers, their massive salaries are a drain on society...

Every year I see coming into my classroom a group of children with behavioural and learning issues that pose a challenge to the functioning of the class. Over the years I have come to summarise this cluster of symptoms in a particular...