Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Your Professionalism as a Teacher: The Hope Diamond in Your Pocket - 0 views
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professionalism encouragement reaffirmation
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Teaching isn't like any other job I've had -- it is a life calling and all-consuming.
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And yet, every year, before it all starts, I count the cost. I find myself asking myself, "How many more years can I do this?" "Will I hold up?" "Can I make it?"
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I dream of a day where society truly understands what it means to be a teacher and where every teacher remembers what it means to be a teacher!
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teachers literally have a higher standard of behavior and if we do anything that detracts from the learning environment - no matter what it is, we can be fired for it!
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This always makes me think of the sub who was using a computer when inappropriate pop-up windows began to appear. She was sued. It cost her her health, a LOT of money. In the end it was determined that it was NOT her fault, but the damage was done. That would NEVER have happened anywhere else but in education.
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But, pay a good teacher nothing, and you've still got royalty! There is a nobility in teaching that truly transcends money.
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There is a nobility in good teaching that I think I and my colleague teachers often forget. There is something about knowing that the very course of a young life will change as a result of being in my classroom and I pray it will be for the positive. That some granule of learning will be retained and go on to bless the world in future centuries as a result of who I was to a student (or to you, my readers for that matter) is something I hang on to.
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If you're a good teacher, you've got your professionalism as a teacher as part of who you are. It is in you, around you, and exudes from every pore... if you are a good teacher. You are rich. Your calling is noble and you will remain rich as long as you rise above, and keep your treasure.