WHAT DOES SOCIETY EXPECT OF TEACHERS AS PROFESSIONAL?
T- Teachers are public servants accountable to the people.
E- Ensure the students’ development and success.
A- Adhere to high professional and moral values and standards.
C- Competent and Efficient by all means.
H- Hold a strong beliefs about the potential of the students.
E- Excellent and have a solid grasp of the content they teach.
R- Resourceful in creating meaningful learning experiences which promotes students’
progress.
ANALYSIS: Let’s Analyze!
1. WHAT DOES YOUR LIST TELL ABOUT SOCIETY’S EXPECTATIONS
FROM TEACHERS? - Today's teachers are expected to have advanced knowledge and skills and high academic and ethical standards. Teachers are expected to promote student's academic progress as well as further students' social, emotional, and moral development and to safeguard students' health and well-being.
2. HOW DO YOU FEEL? ARE YOU OVERWHELMED BY LITANY OF
EXPECTATIONS? - I feel great. No, not overwhelmed with expectations. I have learned that we make our own expectations and can lower them anytime we like. In doing so, we cease the needless judgement and harsh criticism that would otherwise bring upon ourselves, thus diminishing our happiness. In other words, our happiness lies in our own hands.
3. ARE YOU CHANGING YOUR “YES” TO THE CALL TO TEACH? SHARE
YOUR ANSWERS TO THE GROUP. - Well, I am already happy and contented to my course choice right now and that is teaching.. I am pleased to say that teaching especially in these times of need is crucial and it can help shape the future of our civilization, the more teachers there are, the better the future for our generation is.