teachers are born not made?
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It would be both really. Some people just love to teach. They love time in front of kids and they love watching them learn.\n\nOthers learn the skill. \n\nSo it's both.
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People who run schools.
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A teacher isn't just a transmiter of knowledge. A teacher has lots of roles that can be categorized into three: A teacher as a person, a professional and as a member of the community.\n\nSo am I a good teacher?\n\nI'm not yet a teacher but I think I have a potential to be one.
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It seems like a lot of factors contribute to teacher attrition (leaving the profession). But apparently new teachers are most likely to abandon ship.\n\nAccording to a 1986 survey, more than 2/3 of all beginning teachers will have left during their first four years of teaching and 40-50% of them will leave during the first seven years of their career. (Huling-Austin, 1986).\n\nThese are some factors likely most likely to affect the attrition of new teachers:\n\n1) Beginning teachers are unable to cope with teaching problems like discipline, difficulties with parents, and lack of sufficient or appropriate teaching materials.\n\n2) Beginners are often given the most difficult teaching assignments. \n\n3) Novice teachers often receive little or no support after leaving the university and find that their teacher education programs ill-prepared them for the realities of teaching.\n\nOther factors, such as salary, affect attrition rates, but perhaps the fact that beginning teachers lack adequate support and resources to handle such a large responsibility (basically parenting your students) is where the responsbility lies.
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1.  The teachers' union.  This causes the wrong sort of people to be retained as teachers just because they have seniority, while good teachers with low seniority are let go.  It also stifles creativity and superior teaching techniques, because the whole mentality of a union is to not show up the marginal worker.  Teachers are not factory workers!\n\n2.  Bureaucracy, and specifically federal bureaucracy.  They have their own agenda, and it runs toward the Politically Correct, to propaganda, and makes the individual student's needs the lowest priority.  The bureaucracy is inflexible, inefficient, and expensive.\n\nBasically, anything that interferes with a child's ability to learn what is interesting to him, what he needs for his life in the future, and what his parents want him to know, is bad for the child.  Most of the social conditioning is bad for the child.  And generally, the physical conditions are bad for the child.\n\nI understand the black tee shirt I saw on the bus when the high school kids got on:  "School prepares you for the real world, which also s**ks."
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I would say because people do not realize the full extent of how important teachers are, because without them who are you to say you would be who you are today.  I would say that the world is too caught up on celebrities and sports and things like that, that make so much more money it is ridiculous.  So I would have to say that people do not realize the importance of teachers and the amount of money they get paid, when the reward (their students) is priceless.
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Depends where you are.  However, it seems that teaching jobs are extremely cyclical.  Basically, there's a whole bunch that start at the same time and those same ones retire at the same time.  So, at times, there don't seem to be any jobs, and other times there are several.  Right now, I think we're entering into a period where teachers are needed.  Remember also, statistics suggest that more than half of all new teachers leave the profession in the first 5 years.
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I'm not a teacher, but my parents both are. To me, it seems to be that once you're a teacher, you never, ever stop being teacher. You can't avoid taking your work home (and I mean emotionally, not just tonnes and tonnes of marking!) and you will run into ex-pupils for eternity! \n\nAlso, there are the classes that are simply unteachable. A friend's mum is also a teacher, in a worse school, and she regularly comes home with broken bones from children throwing chairs etc at her.\n\nHowever, I think what is beginning to become the hardest part of the job for my parents is all the paperwork for things like taking children on a school trip. Also the lack of gratitude that some parents have.
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There are probably less than 1000 teachers in the United States of America. Most schools have people that do not care one whit about teaching. Only drawing a teacher's salary. American education is in a deplorable state. When countries , such as India or China surpass the United States in quality of education, something is very wrong.\n We send our children to school for 16 years and they are marginally literate. I mean, look at the way your question is written.
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Henry Adams said, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." \nTeachers occupy a special place of privilege and responsibility, whether they are lecturing at a college, leading an honors seminar at a high school, beginning to acquaint children with the joy of learning at an elementary school, or instructing people in faith at a church. \n\nWe have paid insufficient attention to the roles that teachers play within the church, for good and for ill.
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Many and yes.  \n\nI love teaching and the children are a challenge.  I know many who enter the profession end up hating it.  They believe teaching is like a movie where the right teacher (like Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society) comes into a classroom and inspires the students to do great things.  While this can happen, it usually takes a lot of work behind the scenes that nobody ever sees.  In reality, teaching is about manipulating (in a good way) and motivating students to maintain a controlled environment where students can take the time to see the magic of what you are trying to teach them.\n\nFor most it takes time to develop these skills.  So you have to enter the field of teaching with the correct mindset knowing that until you develop the skills necessary to balance classroom discipline with fun, teaching can be quite frustrating.  With time and understanding, however, teaching to give you lots of excitement and good times.
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For some yes.  For others, it's a job.   But considering how little we pay them, you'd think there's something else there besides just a job.\n\nNow consider this.  Teachers are human too.  They have good days and bad.  They have favorites (even if they don't say it).  So what you are feeling might be some of that.
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Teachers are a great asset and play a major role in shaping a students career and thinking.\n\nA student, spends over 20,000 hours in school till he completes the 12th class and during this long period he absorbs the qualities of his teachers by observing their conduct.\n\nTeachers have the responsibilities, to not only spread knowledge but also impart spirituality and scientific outlook which are essential for a nation to grow.
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A teacher who cannot communicate well is seldom hired.  Students must be able to discern what the teacher asks them to do in order to succeed.  Teachers who do not communicate well with the public often create confusion that is referred up the ladder to the principal, who does NOT enjoy having to clean up the mess.  Thus, such a teacher would not be retained since they create more work than they do.
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You fully prove the point:  your favourite teacher did not teach you how to spell 'teacher' (thecher).  However, your least favourite one taught you to spell it correctly.  So, the moral of the story, is that a teacher should concentrate on teaching not being popular............
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You are wrong. Society gives a lot of respect to teachers. What they don't give is a living (aka salary), as money is more expensive than respect.
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I'm a teacher.  I never have unrealistic rules in my classroom and I try to lead by example.  If I am polite to children and never shout, then I accept the same from them.  I don't usually have disciplinary problems although there is the odd exception.