Being A Social Studies Teacher Will Be The Dream
sourceHello guys,
Another week has started. With this new week, I pray there are a lot of blessings in it for all of us. This week I am here once again to present my hl entry. Every week I see unique topics in the hl discord which are intriguing so I keep participating.
Growing up, most of us always went for the big professions whenever we were asked what we wanted to be. If I can remember correctly, the most dominant answers were pilot, doctor, lawyer, engineer and all sorts of white-collar jobs.
Well, I can understand where all these answers were coming from. Even those with parents as teachers never encouraged their kids to be teachers in any way.
Most of the time our parents complained of the low salary as a key factor to why they wouldn’t want their kids to be teachers. For such an important profession it seems that not a lot of people care about how they take care of their selves.
I don’t know if this happens in only Africa but I know that in my country teachers are not paid well. Each time they request something they have to go on a strike to get what they want. At times, the strike won’t even yield the results they hoped for.
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We thought it happened to people like primary school and JHS teachers. But when you climb up the ladder it feels the same. Even though the lecturers are not paid the same it still feels like a cheat to me.
These days when you see people going to college to become teachers it means that most if not for all of them didn’t get admission into the university thus college was their last resort. For some, the situation at home is not good enough so they prefer going to college for the allowance given monthly; the allowance too is nothing to write home about.
Previously only brilliant people went to college to become tutors but now the brilliant people don’t wanna go because they know they won’t get enough pay at the end of the month.
Well, this article is not supposed to be about the problems teachers face so I think I should change the topic.
Everyone in my house knows that I love maths. That was what I could spend hours and hours on, trying to figure out a formula. But no, if I was gonna be a teacher it won’t be a math teacher. I know I like it so much and it would most probably be easy to teach. But then someone can change your decision on the way and this man was my social studies teacher in JHS.
Social studies have never been difficult at the primary and JHS level; except for the map part, I think lol. But the ease and finesse with, which my JHS social teacher taught the subject, made me fall in love with it instantly. Whenever he was in class he proved that he studied what he was gonna teach.
sourceHe made sure to answer if not all but most of the questions that were asked in class. To top it off he made social soo easy cause he taught it using real-life examples. He made a joke out of every situation thus we all loved him. We loved to have him in class and we so wished he never left each time he was in class.
His style of approach to teaching was something to admire. He made it fun and if ever I wanted to be a teacher I will want to be a fun and loving teacher. A teacher who is not feared but loved by my students. I will like it if my students could come to me whenever they had a problem. For me, a teacher who could get us to do that was our social master and it will be great to teach what he taught to make us love him soo much.
So yeah, being a social studies teacher wouldn’t be bad.
Thanks for reading.
I actually have a funny teacher back then in high school and to be sincere I always hope he can come to our class every day but too bad it's not possible because it's literature he does teach us and it can't be taught it everyday.
You will make a great social study teacher rubi if you are funny😁
Too bad they can’t always be there😂. But we do have a bond with them after we complete the school. Having a fan teacher is really cool and if I was gonna be a teacher am pretty sure I will be the fun one.
One of the most important things about being a teacher and one thing that America is definitely getting wrong is that you should NOT impose your beliefs upon the students, but you should instill in them an unbiased and neutral worldview, while at the same time showing them information to think for themselves.
Social studies / history is one such topic where we should not tell people how to think but just give them the tools to think and hope that we can guide them in the right direction to become critical thinkers. That is the best thing for a teacher I think!
Huh, I think with most social teachers it’s that way. They never impose what they think or believe in on you. They make the class easy and allow you think for yourselves. I think this is the reason a lot of people love their social studies tutors.
They allow you think outside the box which we hardly see happening.
That’s good to hear! Sadly many in America don’t see that way. There’s still plenty that do which is good but too many that don’t. I never got the politicized teachers when I was in school thankfully but there’s too many of them these days.
Social studies class back then in my secondary school days is a large interactive class where we talk about societies, families, clothes, food and many others. Questions would be asked and answered with cheerful heart. You'll make a good social studies teacher since its the subject you'll prefer to teach.
I didn't really want to be a social studies teacher well, I like the subjects because it's impacted me as a student with how to live in the society and impact our society right I don't want to be it's a teacher because of the little salary the ara being paid
Opinion differs about the behavior of teachers but I think the subject make them polite or rude hehe, for example, I had a teacher who taught us psychology ans biotechnology so we felt her more teacher-like in psychology, class. Social studie hmm things become difficult when you have to play figures and dates games. I am working as a tutor so in my view more attached you will be to your students more humble and emphatic attitude they will show toward your studies.