What is it like being a teacher?

Answer 1

Teaching can be a potentially rewarding job. However some days are extremely hard, especially if you are trying to facilitate learning with students who have no desire to learn and see no value in education.

The pay for the amount of work that is done is quite poor, with the average teacher working around 11 hours per day. A large part of this time will be spent completing administrative work such as marking,detentions, preparing lessons,dealing with child protection issues, writing up incident reports and getting in contact with parents.

Depending on what country you work in the rates of pay and conditions will vary significantly and whether you work in a government school or a private/religious school. Public sector teachers are often paid better than private sector workers overall and conditions tend to be better because of good union membership. Private schools tend to pay less to their staff and are expected to work longer hours.

Private schools often expect teachers and staff to run Saturday sports and run after school sports coaching a number of days a week.Promotion in religious schools can also be hindered if you are not of that faith for example in Australia a teacher in the Catholic School System is unlikely to be promoted any further than classroom teacher unless he or she is of the Catholic faith.

Teaching no longer provides a guaranteed job or security of employment, with the global financial crisis teaching jobs have been cut around the globe and wages reduced. London once a city crying out for teachers seems to now have an oversupply. Just as Australia which has recently taken teaching off the skilled migration register.

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