Being a teacher seems to be an ordinary word for most people because teachers are one of the most popular professions in the work world. People know what a teacher is and what a teacher does because everyone has experienced being with a teacher during their school days.

Being a teacher may somehow be a difficult profession to live by – because it is the kind of work that is exposed to so many kinds of people and so we bound to be at the mercy of other people who love judging and finding faults. Children and other schoolers also look at teachers like a role model. Whatever a teacher wears, kids have something to say; whatever a teacher says, people will take notice, and whatever a teacher does – other people and the community will always have comments and have something to say.

If feedbacks would be positive or negative, who knows? Who hears? And who cares anyway?

Being a teacher makes us a role model in the school and the community whether we like it or not. We tend to be under observation in and out of the school. Our pupils tend to pattern their ways of life depending on how they see their teacher – if they idolized their teacher, they might do the same thing, otherwise they might just be vengeful and do the exact opposite.

So we always have to extra careful as a teacher – in the way we dress up, in the way we talk, even the way we walk and how we deal with other people, because the ones around us will always have something to say – good or bad, they will still say something, in fact anything!

 

 

 

 

By: Grace L. Sotto | Jose V. Abejar Memorial Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan