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Different countries have different social status for professional teachers. In some countries they enjoy highest respect and monetary benefits but in some others they don't. What is its impact on education and personal feelings of a teacher?
New research (British research, so you know it's extra dignified and erudite)suggests that teachers are not the soulless, dispassionate grading androids we once believed them to be — sometimes, they let they can allow their "personal feelings" or "bias" about a particular student influence that student's grade. Maybe this news shocks you. Maybe it makes you wonder whether your seventh-grade reading composition would have loved those odes to Han Solo's thigh-hugging equestrian pants and called you "the next Emily Dickinson...of Star Wars poetry" if you didn't bring her a cream cheese doughnut from Dunkin' every morning.
It should, anyway. Teachers are, after all, human, and humans have a way of letting their emotions run roughshod all over their rationality. You might even say that emotion and rationality aren't really such different frontal lobe phenomena, but we digress — the point is that teachers, according to a recent survey of more than2, teachers judging essays written by their-year-old students, a teacher's "personal feelings" may sometimes account for the marks he or she doles out to bright-eyed you learners. After receiving an initial grade, the essays were evaluated by third party "moderators," who discovered that, in percent of the cases, papers were judged too favorably (in five percent they were judged too harshly).
The Telegraph concludes that such findings "cast doubt on teacher objectivity," which is a ridiculous belief to cling to in the first place because there doesn't exist on this planet a single anything that is entirely objective. Even machines rely on programs and algorithms written by people, and people are flawed, scared, hairless monkeys whose only notable evolutionary characteristics are1) wiggly thumbs and2) lying. Maybe teachers let themselves get charmed by particularly well-behaved, punctilious students, but that's only because teaching is hard work — most kids completely suck and society just shits all over teachers constantly.
Yes ofcourse, it will privilege to me that i am impart to educate the students
Well I can say yes I really enjoy my social status as a teacher. However, as a teacher you need to always update your knowledge in terms of industry trends and have more in-depth understanding of the field of study you are teaching students in tertiary institutions. The industry keeps discovering new challenges in almost every day, therefore, that calls for a teacher to keep learning the new strategies and methods of contributing that new knowledge to your students. Monetary benefits and status satisfaction in the society should be dealt with after achieving the primary goal of which is to teach students.
I believe, regardless of my cultural setting, that I am an agent of a nobel and worthwhile profession. As the question points out, different cultures treat teachers differently, and certainly everyone would like to be treated with respect and paid well, and I am blessed to live and work in Saudi Arabia where that is, for the most part, the reality.
Education is a non-stop process of learning. Thus, this means that satisfaction can only be attained when there are proven products. The highest respect for a teacher is coming from these products who are influenced and motivated by their teachers.
I will be truly satisfied whenever I see former students achieved something in life apart from the monetary benefits I'm getting in teaching outside my country.
yes, since we can get connection with lot's of people through social network and its not required to see how the other peoples do respect us.
To be objective, I would say that teaching does not add value to teachers; if teachers have good social status, it does not deprive them from it. On the other hand, if teachers do not have good social status, whatever they do as teachers, will not become celebrities.
teaching English in my country as a career has no benefits or future whatsoever, teachers in my country are struggling in order to earn enough money by doing part time job after school hours ,
Yes i am fully satisfied,because its the obligation to learn
Yes, certainly, because high-level education a career
Yes I am happy being a teacher.
