My Reason for Being a Teacher

Growing up children have many aspirations, some want to be astronauts, some doctors and others want to be pilots. As for me I always wanted to be teacher, from a very early age I used to love spending time with children younger than me by helping them with activities and studies. I used to gather the small children in my neighbourhood and would give them extra coaching classes before exams and also help them out in studies during the summer holidays. When I started my professional careers, for the first couple of years I tried a desk job but always felt my calling for the teaching profession and eventually I decided to quit my 9 to 5 job and joined a school as a full time teacher.

There I found that full time teaching was not as romanticized as I had imagined. There were daily challenges and hurdles like temperament of children, pressures of completing the courses, homework checking, exam-paper markings and try to meet expectations of parents. If Hercules really wanted a challenge one of his 12 tasks should have been to become a teacher.

But where teaching has its challenges it also comes with its own set of rewards. Teaching gives you sense of deep satisfactions when as a teacher you see that you may have had an impact on a child that would last them a life time. At the end of the day you stand there with a beaming smile on your face much like a gardener who has toiled the entire day under the sweltering heat, knee deep in dirt to plant seeds and then standing there imagining how beautiful the garden will look when all the flowers will eventually bloom.     

The whole idea of bringing about a positive and sustainable improvement in a child in terms of education as well as personality is my reason to be a teacher and I am determined to keep on improving myself with time. After all teaching is all about learning twice.