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Many teachers do not get the respect they deserve. They work long hours at schools and at home to prepare and present information in an engaging yet simple way to facilitate learning. Add to that, sometimes they have to deal with difficult parents on top of everything else! Many parents blame a good teacher for [...]
Only the very bravest of teachers venture out into teenage territory. What makes them so difficult to deal with is that teenagers are struggling between growing out of their childhood and coming into their adulthood. So, in spite of still being immature and inexperienced in the world, they nevertheless feel the natural urge to assert [...]
There are different categories of teaching for university level. At most universities across the world there is usually an academic staff made up of professors, lecturers and teaching assistants. They are very similar in concept but have different titles and responsibilities depending on the country and whether or not it is a university or college [...]
Although I continued to successfully teach another couple of courses, I searched for another job desperately. I knew I could have a good solid career in teaching if I committed to it but, teaching just was not for me. Good teachers have special qualities that I did not have, but was pretending to have, just [...]
I went into the classroom the first day, walking tall with my head held high and a jumble of nerves on the inside. I was told to introduce myself, introduce the syllabus, and then give the first brief lesson. I skipped introducing the syllabus altogether. I later went back to it, as though that was [...]
Not just anyone can be good at teaching. I used to think that teaching was easy and that “Those who cannot do teach.” That was a wrong assumption. A few years ago, I was back and forth between America, where I grew up, and Egypt, where my parents were born. I never wanted to teach [...]