On Being A Teacher.


I started my career as a teacher in 2003. I must confess I could never teach much. I only learned, about life, about people and about school, a place where I spent most of my time during the day. I have recieved a lot of love for the work I have done, from my collegues, seniors, friends and above all from my young partners in the classrooms. They would come to me and tell me "Ma'am, you are so nice." It feels good to be a 'nice teacher'.


               One of the major tasks that teachers all over the world have to perform is the 'correction' of 'work' done by 'students'. I have three problems with the whole process.First, I can never think of the tiny faces staring at me eagrely as just 'STUDENTS'. They are children, the young ones of the species I belong to. Hence, they are special and every single one of them is unique in their own way ( just like all other life forms on planet Earth) . This leads us to the second problem.


               Since they are all unique, how can the same kind of 'WORK' interest all of them? From my point of view the whole process of education starts looking like slavery. I do agree there are basic things such as the 3R s that every individual must learn... Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. But life holds much more than that for the young ones to explore.


                 The last in the series of problems is the term 'CORRECTION'. I struggled a lot with that part. The time I was spending sitting there 'CORRECTING' the notebooks could be spent far better if I could talk and listen to or may be play with those enegetic little beings inside the classrooms. I realised this quiet early in my career. Every step that I am taking now aims at making the lives of our children a little better.