My belief about teaching~

Teaching has not been a career of my dream ever since I was little. I always thought that, teaching is a very hard profession and it demands high capability and tremendous commitment. Undeniably, this perception might have also been inflicted due to a number of figures that are still vividly germinated in my mind. They are the tired, old and unmotivated looking teacher that I used to have. Fair enough, I do have several teachers that I look high upon due to their credibility in teaching.



Nonetheless, I always thought that I am not going to become a teacher simply because, I am not capable of it and I don’t have the values required to become a good teacher. However, as soon as I embarked in this course, teaching English as a second language. Something inside me urges me to start thinking on the principle that I am going to adopt and what kind of teacher am I going to become. My belief about teaching is a teacher does not only in charge of the academic development of the fellow students but also their individual, emotional and intellectual growth.



In fact, teachers’ role in promoting healthy and balanced environment to support digestion of learning inside the classroom or curriculum of the home (Walberg and Paik, 1992) is proven to be of paramount importance. My lecturer, used to tell us that a teacher has to become an angelic figure to the children. Meaning to say, we teachers have to be good, behave and possess all the perfect morality that human being are capable of. However, I perceive her notion as unrealistic. This is because, we can never run from the fact that teacher is still a normal human being and fallible being one of teacher’s inevitable values.


Consequently, I came out with my own perception. A teacher, though a normal human being, is a wonderful and unique creature. They learn as they teach and in fact, as Professor Smith mentioned it in his talk with us, in order to become a teacher, one has to always become a learner. Teacher has to always able to comprehend the struggle that is needed to move from the state of not knowing to knowing. Teacher, though a normal human being, has to try, at their very best effort to make the best use of whatever it is that they have.


It is a truth that universally acknowledged that to teach is to touch someone’s life. This is an interactive process whereby, teacher has to also open their life to be touched by the students. This connection enables transmission of knowledge to occur, as children learn best, when they feel connected. Teacher is not an angel, but they are selected people.

Like the barber who possesses an authentic skill that not everyone is able to, like the farmer who acquires the skill of gardening while others are not, teacher is designed by Allah, to talk to heart and nourish the soul.