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Teacher's Dilemma With Balancing Expectations On Students.

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george-dee
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The importance of teachers in the world can't be quantified, and indeed they play a vital role in influencing the future by impacting knowledge into the leaders of tomorrow. They do their best to pass down knowledge, and without them, we wouldn't even be here today.

Their sacrifices and efforts are why we have engineers, doctors, and many other professionals out there contributing to our well-being directly or indirectly. I have been there and can confidently say that teaching is one of the best jobs out there for those who do it passionately, and it can be quite complicated judging by the struggles teachers face in some parts of the world.

The issue of blaming teachers for student academic failure feels like a normal thing to me, and as a teacher some years ago, it was a wake-up call for me to evaluate my teaching style. After all, if a student succeeds, the teachers take the praise as well. I am not saying teachers are always responsible when a student isn't doing well, but surely all fingers will be pointing at them.

It's like paying someone to do a job and he or she didn't do it well; you will definitely blame the person, right?

When teachers are blamed for a student's academic failure, it's an opportunity for the teacher to investigate why the student isn't performing well and make amendments, whether it's the teacher's fault or not. You will all agree with me that parents pay teachers to instill knowledge into their kids, and they just want results. Some parents understand the fact that their kids aren't academically sound, while others don't care; they just want to see their kids performing excellently.


Some years ago, a boy of 14 years was brought to the school where I worked, and my proprietor turned him down because he could barely read or write. I picked interest in the boy and agreed to take him if only the parents would allow him to start from primary school because he was already in JSS3 at one public school.

They agreed, and I started doing my job. I interacted with him and paid a lot of attention to him in class. I realized he had very low interest in learning, plus he doesn't assimilate easily. To cut the story short, this boy became a different person in two years. He graduated from primary school at the age of 16, and I was in tears seeing his parents happy. 

Of course, I was showered with gifts, and it would have been a different case if I hadn't helped the boy.

Being a teacher doesn't end with teaching mathematics or English in the classroom. It has to do with understanding your students behavior towards study, knowing their interest, assimilation ability and others.

Like I mentioned earlier, teachers will always get the biggest blame, even though the student or parents are responsible for the student's poor performance, and it's the teacher's duty to trace where the fault is coming from so the teacher's efforts won't be in vain at the end.


To help teachers achieve success with their students, a lot of things must be fixed, and it includes properly training teachers. If we look around today, there are so many unqualified teachers, and schools employ them so they can pay stipends. There should be proper training for teachers where they can learn beyond just writing lesson notes and compiling students results at the end of the session.

School providing necessary resources for the teachers to work effectively in a conducive environment for not just students but teachers as well is paramount.

Finally, parents must be actively involved in their children's academic journey because they spend more time at home and the things they do away from school contribute a lot to their academic progress. They must work hand in hand with teachers, and it shouldn't be about just paying enormous bills sent by the school.

Visit your kids school without notice, check their work, ask questions, and these things will even help teachers sit tight when they are slacking off. Helping a student succeed academically requires a collaborative effort from the parents, students, and even teachers, so there won't be difficulties when tackling whatever challenges a student has academically.

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