Teachers must be celebrated

TEACHERS are a crucial factor in our lives as they shape and mould each and every person into who they become, intentionally or not.

Teachers don’t get enough credit for the hard work they continuously do during school, and after.

As we celebrate Hillside Teachers’ College 62nd graduation ceremony, a moment to look back and appreciate our teachers seems a good idea.

Teachers work around the clock. Often, it is assumed that when a teacher finishes their school day, their work is over. A teacher’s work never really truly ends.

They often times don’t leave school until much later than pupils and when they do, they have papers to grade and meetings with parents.

Everything a teacher does is to help better their pupils. Teachers learn how they can help each and every child they come in contact with, not just educationally, but emotionally. A teacher can help pupils grow and mature into better people.

Teachers don’t accept and they push you to yourself.

Everyone has felt like they weren’t good enough or that they absolutely could never learn that hard Maths equation.

Teachers don’t accept “I can’t” as an answer, and they help you get failure,

better through your roadblocks.

Teachers stay positive. Even among the crazy, chaotic and loud days, teachers know how to stay positive and not let it get to them as they interact with pupils.

Sometimes a teacher can be the only sense of stability for some children.

Pupils, particularly those in their teenage years that come from dysfunctional homes, often look up to their teachers.

Their teachers make a huge difference in their lives and it is quite often that the teacher has absolutely no idea.

They spend a lot of time with pupils, sometimes even more than their parents do.

Their personality and characteristics rub off on children who don’t have someone else to look up to.

Hillside Teachers’ College has so much to offer for the society in producing a competent crop of teachers who are an inspiration to their pupils, act in loco parentis and take up so many roles in a pupil’s life.

With a good teacher in place, a school, a classroom becomes an extension of the home.