The advantages and disadvantages of being a teacher
School takes up a very important part in students’ life. There they spend twelve years of them life. The school becomes like a second home to them. There they grow up, learn to love, to forgive and to be friend. The school is the first step to the greet life. The most important person in school is the teacher. He/she helps students to know life; he/she opens the door to unknown worlds.
The profession of teacher is one of the oldest in the world. In ancient times the most educated person was a teacher, he/she was teaching not only one or two subjects what teacher do now but he/she teaching four or five different subjects. Teacher was a big authority to students. He/she was hold in high respect. The students respected him/her but at the same time afraid of his/her stick. In ancient times a physical punishments was used at students. So if students did not listen to teacher, did not work or learn they were punished. Times were changing so the system of education was changing too. One teacher teaching one or two subjects, the physical punishment was forbidden. In ancient times teacher was like orchestral conductor, nowadays teacher is like a friend or adviser of students, who shows or advises the students how to learn or to do something.
Teachers use many metaphors to describe what they do. Sometimes they say they are like actors because ‘they are always on the stage‘, or they are like gardeners because ‘they plant the seeds and then watch them grow’. Dictionaries also give a variety of messages about teaching. According to the Cambridge International Dictionary of English ‘teaching’ means ‘to give (someone) knowledge or to instruct or train (someone), The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English suggests that it means ‘to show somebody how to do something’ or ‘to change somebody’s ideas’.
Teacher’s job is very interesting but at the same time is very difficult. Teaching is a multi-faceted profession because of this there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of being a teacher.
The first advantages of being a teacher could be – an interesting job. Teachers always meet and communicate with interesting people. Sometimes teacher has to go to seminars or to work on probation. Also he/she can go to abroad and see how foreign students learning, so he/she has a chance to see a world and there to meet interesting people too. Teacher can organize excursions and together with students go to visit some interesting towns of them country. So teacher can do a lot of interesting things in his/her job.
Teaching is a complex job. The teacher has not only to teach students but he/she has to be a friend to them. He/she should be interested in the students’ world: their problems, fashions, views to life, enjoyments. If a teacher works a long time, he/she must not lag behind the students’ life because times change and students change too. So the second advantage of being a teacher is that the teacher’s profession does not allow to become older.