What makes teaching a vocation

Both were very grateful and humbled by the special recognition from their peers and felt proud to represent such a talented group of educators. When asked if God had influenced their decision to be a teacher, Mrs. Schaal said it had. Miss Jones had always wanted to be a teacher, but felt a calling during college when a volunteer was needed to teach at a small school in New Mexico as a Catholic mission opportunity.

Both women were very passionate about increasing interest in a teaching career. Schaal stated. Both Teachers of the Year see the biggest challenge they face is helping children develop a love for learning and to see the importance of this gift of education.

Teachers want each child to know that they can succeed and achieve their goals. Schaal and Jones are both excited about the future of education. We are allowing for more collaboration and getting students to set goals for their own learning. The profession of teaching has changed with technology allowing the sharing of ideas.

Asking questions of other teachers and using these valuable resources offer new approaches that could benefit the students. The ultimate goal is to create students who have perseverance and respect for everyone.

Proficient in: Being A Teacher. They should realize by being a teacher, they are making an important contribution to the efforts of national development. The teachers must constantly endeavour to fill their mind, with great thoughts and spread the nobility in thinking and action among the students.

Teacher should celebrate the success of the students. Based on the etymology of the word, vocation therefore, means a call. Perhaps you never dreamt to become a teacher! But here you are now preparing to become one!

How did it happen? From the eyes of those who believe, it was God who called you here for you to teach, just a God called Abraham, Moses and Mary of the Bible. Teaching is also a mission. You are called to be a teacher and you are sent into the world to accomplished a mission, to teach. You are sent by God to accomplish an assigned task. Teaching is your mission means it is the task entrusted to you in this world.

From now on you cannot take your studies for granted! Your four years of pre service preparation will equip you with the knowledge, skills and attitude to become an effective teacher.

Teaching like engineering, nursing, accounting and the like is a profession. A teacher like an engineer, nurse or and accountant is a profession. According to Hermogenes P. Pobre, the term professional is one of the exalted in the English language, denoting as it does, long and arduous years of preparation, a striving for excellence, a dedication to the public interest, and commitment to moral and ethical value. Our service to the public as a professional turns out to be dedicated and committed only when our moral, ethical and religious values serve as our bedrock foundation.

The same moral ethical and religious convictions inspire us to embrace continuing professional education. Want to give your life a meaning? Want to live a purpose driven life? Spend it passionately in teaching, the most noble profession. Teaching is more than a noble profession. It is a vocation, a calling. The teacher is the most important person in any civilization, as on him depends the molding of the nation.

There are not many born teachers, but there are those who love teaching, and there are those who enter it as an occupation. The chief qualification for a teacher is his or her love for children; from there can follow the training by good teachers and professors of techniques and principles.

Good teacher-pupil relationship is very important. A teacher must know that he or she is teaching, not only a subject, but a child. A teacher must know each child in his or her charge — especially in his early years — his temperament, his academic capability, his health, his bent, his home background and anything that may be hindering him from doing his best. This will equip teachers and help them to educate.

Each child must taste success at the beginning by beginning with the simple to the complex, the concrete to the abstract, the known to the unknown and to develop at its own rate. This will give him confidence. Teachers can make learning pleasant. They must exhibit energy, enthusiasm and cheerfulness, and never cease to learn themselves. A teacher who ceases to learn becomes irrelevant.

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