Profession Of A Teacher As A Dream Career

Teachers are often compared to potters, they mold a young mind into the leaders of future. One such teacher is my geography professor, and she is by far the best teacher that I have ever had. She has the ability to make a topic that many students find incredibly hard and boring come to life through her enthusiasm, passion, and her love of being a teacher. According to her this is a way of giving back to the society. 

Going to her lessons is something we look forward to, not dread, like we do with most other lessons. But no person is perfect, she has her own flaws which she embraces and works upon to improve daily. It’s ever so funny to watch her get excited about something, which happens in every lesson. It’s easy to notice that she’s getting excited because she begins bouncing up and down slightly in a way that no other fifty-something year old would ever manage without looking completely ridiculous. She has the dark (with more and more grey streaks these days), springy hair that bounces up and down with her like thousands of tiny little springs. Then, she takes on her whole new persona, often going into role and becoming the character or figure she is talking about, doing the voices, the actions, and parading up and down the room gesticulating wildly, but all the while there’s a gentle ‘bounce, bounce, bounce’, as though the springs are not just on her head but on the soles of her shoes too. Her passion for story telling shows in her work and the way she explains the concept changes the perspective of a normal story and makes it one of the most interesting class I’ve ever been to. 

A teacher that doesn’t take herself too seriously always will be a big hit with young students, although she’s not afraid to impose her authority if she has to. I’ve only ever heard her properly shout once (although thankfully it wasn’t it me), but it isn’t an experience that I would like to repeat. When she lost it, the room suddenly became more silent than I’d ever known it to be before. One could hear a pin dropping down. We all sat slightly paralyzed, not even anting to breathe too loudly, because shearing such a jovial and jolly person lose her temper was a huge shock. It certainly had the right kind of impact, because she’s never needed to shout since. But as every coin has two sides, she has certain negative qualities in my opinion. In her perspective although, she is helping students cope with other assignments by giving them extra time and extending deadlines, seems a bit unfair to hard working students who are working day and night to get their assignment on time. 

Some students take disadvantage of her leniency, who are in fact causing damage to their own future. It is actually the teacher that I have to thank for my love of geography. In her lessons, geography does not mean copying out of textbooks, writing pages and pages of notes and memorizing different landforms. Geography is alive; geography is something tangible, that you can see, shear and feel, and we can live it through discussions, debates or taking trips to important places of geographical importance. And although she’s getting on in years and may not be teaching for much longer, she will have an important place in geography for many of her students, because there has never been a teacher able to bring a subject to life in quite the same way she does.