[nobe-l] Teaching

[Kayla James]

God will guide me and tell me where to go.

On 3/20/16, Kayla James <christgirl813 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone on the Nobe-L list done the Teach for Tomorrow program through
> NFB?
>
> On 3/20/16, Kathy via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Adrijana,
>>   Thank you for this honesty. Indeed, it seems that issues that
>> complicate
>> the beauty of teaching are rising up in all parts of the world, not just
>> the
>> little corners that we each inhabit. When the best and most hard-working
>> teachers feel this burdened by the paperwork and regulations and
>> assessments
>> and evaluations, you know there is a problem. We all know every
>> profession
>> has people who will complain about something all the time, but when the
>> most
>> committed feel that stress and discouragement, it is truly alarming.
>> Thankfully, we have safe places like this list where we can be honest,
>> and
>> hopefully, the sharing lightens the load at least enough to remind you
>> that
>> you are not alone and why you came to the profession.
>> Kathy and Nacho
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:49:18 +0100
>>> To: nobe-l at nfbnet.org; pibe-division at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [nobe-l] Teaching
>>> From: nobe-l at nfbnet.org
>>> CC: adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
>>>
>>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>>  I am a teacher of English in Macedonia and I think I am getting to
>>> feel that I am constantly caught up in paperwork, so much so that I no
>>> longer feel as a teacher any more. Every year the ministry of
>>> education comes up with all kinds of projects, so that we have more
>>> paperwork to do and besides the annual programs, daily lesson plans,
>>> students individual plans, a portfolio for each one, daily notices of
>>> how each one is doing, weekly reports and grades sent out to class
>>> teachers and parents, we now have something like ecology planning and
>>> information technology planning no matter what subject we teach. We
>>> need to incorporate this into our lesson plans as well and on top of
>>> all, we need to do reports that headmasters and psychologists were
>>> helping out with, that have to do with counting lessons and putting
>>> more and more of all this online, which is another trouble because
>>> their system and website are not working well for sighted people, let
>>> alone for blind people. Since this is a state school, we are not
>>> allowed too much flexibility and can't participate in choosing what
>>> and when we teach. The textbooks are constantly changing, so I keep
>>> brailling each again and again as it comes out and feel that each one
>>> is less suitable for my students.  In addition to this, we get more
>>> and more students with other learning difficulties and facce with
>>> shortages of braillers, so I often find myself brailling for each
>>> students all that I need to let them have for each class twice, so
>>> that they have a copy and home and not lose it or misplace it and a
>>> copy they need to use in class. All this is draining me too much,
>>> because I am getting to feel that I also do other peoples work and I
>>> am getting to feel less joy when teaching, because now besides
>>> teachers, we need to do other things, which is not bad, but when
>>> considering that teachers are no longer being protected by schools or
>>> through the government, it is just very easy for totally blind
>>> teachers to get into all kinds of trouble that they never dreamed of.
>>> Many students bring their cel phones and other devices to school, not
>>> letting them go during the lessons as well and it makes the whole
>>> thing very disruptive and teaching is becoming impossible to do while
>>> all this is going on and when teachers feel they can no longer manage
>>> things much in a way they think they know how. Our school's policy is:
>>> "Just teach and get away with it" because we got less and less
>>> students and we may be closed one day" and parents and students know
>>> this, so some just relax and keep giving more trouble. I was never a
>>> quitter, but am getting to wonder if others experience the same and if
>>> there are other similar jobs to this that are as fulfilling, but not
>>> so stressful to manage and not so much grade related? I love working
>>> with children, but am getting to feel that all this is now for nothing
>>> and it is a terrible feeling.
>>>
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