Exploring the unhappy teacher
Introduction
There is a saying, “give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a life time”. This must be a philosophy of a good teacher. Teaching is one of the oldest and noblest services to the society in any culture. It is a process to prepare the next generation of skilled professionals and workers like engineers, doctors, politician, educators, policemen and good citizens. Therefore, teaching is considered as an instrument to touch lives. However, over the years many teachers are deciding or have left the profession. In general, many schools are losing talented teachers or have many unhappy teachers which as a result weaken the quality of the profession (Hancock & Scherff, 2010). It is crucial to investigate the reasons why are teachers unhappy and leaving the profession. Many literatures have clearly outlined the word ‘burnout’ as an ultimate reason for these. Job burnout is …show more content…
When you walk into an organisation, one can sense the climate, does it seem busy, chaotic or serious. The climate is unique to each organisation and ideally it has to be its own climate. However it has to be a positive climate that makes everyone part of it. Culture goes deeper and reflects shared values, beliefs and attitudes as demonstrated through day-to-day behaviour of the employees.
All schools have a culture and climate and it is not something that you have or don’t have. But very often school culture and school climate happens by default and there is no one that is steering that ship. If there is no one steering the ship and leading, the school is allowing the culture and climate to develop on its own. It is possible that there can be a positive culture and climate by default, but it is more likely if it is done with intention. That intention comes from the leader. When people make an intentional effort that is when things start to
Introduction
There is a saying, “give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a life time”. This must be a philosophy of a good teacher. Teaching is one of the oldest and noblest services to the society in any culture. It is a process to prepare the next generation of skilled professionals and workers like engineers, doctors, politician, educators, policemen and good citizens. Therefore, teaching is considered as an instrument to touch lives. However, over the years many teachers are deciding or have left the profession. In general, many schools are losing talented teachers or have many unhappy teachers which as a result weaken the quality of the profession (Hancock & Scherff, 2010). It is crucial to investigate the reasons why are teachers unhappy and leaving the profession. Many literatures have clearly outlined the word ‘burnout’ as an ultimate reason for these. Job burnout is …show more content…
When you walk into an organisation, one can sense the climate, does it seem busy, chaotic or serious. The climate is unique to each organisation and ideally it has to be its own climate. However it has to be a positive climate that makes everyone part of it. Culture goes deeper and reflects shared values, beliefs and attitudes as demonstrated through day-to-day behaviour of the employees.
All schools have a culture and climate and it is not something that you have or don’t have. But very often school culture and school climate happens by default and there is no one that is steering that ship. If there is no one steering the ship and leading, the school is allowing the culture and climate to develop on its own. It is possible that there can be a positive culture and climate by default, but it is more likely if it is done with intention. That intention comes from the leader. When people make an intentional effort that is when things start to