TEACHER’S
PROFESSION
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Choosing a career (1) is not always easy.
Dear students, fortunately you have already chosen it. Maybe you were
encouraged by your teachers, parents or friends, maybe you followed someone’s
advice or followed in someone’s footsteps, maybe it is your own choice. It does
not matter. Now you are students of National Research University
“Bel SU” – the University of the XXI century. And you are going to be teachers.
It’s great.
It is
known that teaching is a very difficult job of great responsibility and most
specific character. There is a wide variety of work in teaching. A good teacher
is not only a communicator of knowledge but a model of competence. He forms
attitudes to his subject and attitudes to learning, becoming himself a symbol
of educational process, a person who is teaching as well as learning.
A good
teacher always regards capacities his pupils have, trying to temper his
teaching methods to children’s abilities and aptitudes.
A good
teacher must know the general aims of education, must know his own subject
perfectly well, should plan carefully his or her work, assess pupils’
proficiency correctly, work hard to remain up-to-date in his or her subject,
use a lot of different materials, equipment and teaching methods, do the best
to make his or her lessons interesting, keep in contact with the pupils’
parents, help children to live in the community. School becomes a place of
learning and living, of work and play.
That
is why a teacher’s work involves many roles besides that of instructing pupils.
At times a teacher serves as a parent surrogate, entertainer, psychotherapist
and a record keeper.
Teachers
who do enjoy their work show this in their classroom activity. They come to
class prepared for the day’s lessons and conduct lessons in a way that suggests
interest and excitement in learning, create an environment simulating children
to develop their abilities.
A
teacher is in the classroom to instruct. In order to do it perfectly well
teachers must be able to hold the attention and the interest of the audience,
to maintain an active but quiet and well-organized atmosphere at the lesson.
Instruction also means giving additional help to those who are having
difficulty, diagnosing the sources of their problems and giving necessary
assistance.
Thus
while studying at the University future teachers:
- master
their knowledge;
- learn
the principles of pedagogy, psychology, physiology;
- study
the methods of teaching their subjects;
- make
all kinds of experiments;
- develop
skills how to use study aids, audiovisual aids and work with computers.
Teachers
are good friends of their pupils. They want to see them competent, skilled,
honest, kind and well-bred. Teachers help them to organize meetings, to hold
pleasure parties, conferences and excursions. They organize hobby groups,
sports activity, subject Olympiads (competitions).
Some
people say that a good teacher has some of the qualities of a good actor. May
be they are right. But a teacher works in quite a different way. His audience
takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions. A teacher
cannot learn his part by heart, but invent it as he goes along. There are many
teachers who are fine actors in class, but are unable to take part in a
stage-play.
NOTES:
(1) - a career is the series of jobs that a
person does in his or her life, usually in one and the same field.
- a profession is a job that requires
special training, often a university education and brings a rather high social
status.
- a job is the work that a person does
regularly in order to earn money.
- an occupation is a job or profession.
- study aids – учебные пособия
- audiovisual aids – аудиовизуальные средства
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