TEACHING TOUCHES LIVES

DOLLY C. MORALES

We all know that teachers play a great and very important role in our lives. A teacher is the second mother in the school, who prepares children to become productive like them, and who teaches with different disciplines. They help the learners to improve their knowledge, skill level and confidence. We depend on them to educate our children, to produce the intellectual capital that is the foundation of our future as a society.

During the first day of school many of the learners find it hard to stay in the class without their mother and also the teacher must know how to win their students especially a child with behavioral problem and it requires a lot of patience when this thing occurs. An effective teacher should be able to recognize and feels a connection with learners. If you are well connected with them, you can feel also their ideas and thoughts and how they see the differences of things that surround them. Everyone’s lives affect each other. At some point in our lives, each of us must have come across an amazing teacher, who touched or maybe even transformed our lives.

Teachers who touch lives do not do so based on subjects or lessons with direct guidance or because they motivate their learners to think at a higher level. Rather, these teachers elate because they touch every aspect of their learners’ lives. Teachers who have influenced others and remembered by their learners is the greatest reward of a teacher: despite the great demands the profession puts on a teacher, it provides a venue to make a real difference in the lives of others.

To teach is to touch a life. The heart and soul of teaching is that to become a great teacher, a good teacher must first love learning and never tire and stop from learning. Teacher is the dispenser of information embraces changes and always opens to new ideas. Leaving a good legacy inspires others to teach, inspire hope, instills a love of learning and to touch the lives of a child.

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THE AUTHOR IS TEACHER II AT SINDALAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL