The Impediment

The Impediment of Teachers

            Throughout the educational system we need encouraging and positive teachers to produce future social representatives to power and run our nation; and education is the driving force to do that. With disheartened teachers that’s a challenging task for them to implement optimism unto students. Teachers have given up, lost hope for students and even believe it’s just their job, they should not have to care. Without the positivity of teachers push onto students we will have and pessimistic, negative and weak students.

Teachers have given up on students for lack of a support system due to funding cuts on faculty. There is either no or low funding to run a class. “And how can hope be put back into education in situations where it is under threat or close to being banished from the scene?” (Watzlawick 3).  With continued funding cuts year after year it becomes much more challenging to be creative and pass on passion to a student. The students are not capable of change due to inadequate academic supplies. The hope or passion is lost toward students. Teachers are frustrated they themselves have lost hope in the academic system. They can see the students take no interest in the curriculum because the educational system has failed them. The teacher’s time and efforts are not appreciated taking into account the carelessness, hopelessness and absence of the student’s future.

It’s now just a job to some teachers. I do not get paid enough to care and deal with these students’ weighty issues, my check continues to get cut back, some teachers may say. The online article Hope, utopianism and educational renewal touches on why these teachers feel unappreciated; “Certainly teachers in many of our inner-city state comprehensive schools are required to work with the most challenging of pupils, in situations that are often less than ideal, and in circumstances in which they feel their efforts are insufficiently acknowledged and inadequately rewarded” (Watzlawick 2). Some teachers feel that their time and efforts put forth should be financially compensated to show appreciation. A teacher may feel I’m human, I have a family to care for too; with food, clothing, housing and the basic essential needs as well.

If the teachers feels miserable and discouraged that energy or emotions are put onto the students. A teacher given up, losing hope or projecting this is only my job will only hinder students. As stated in The Passion Project article “Feelings are contagious, good or bad. If the teacher feels in his gut that what he is teaching is essential the student will think so too. If the teacher is exploring, so too will the student. If the teacher is learning so too will the student“ (Ontiveros 7). I believe that all engagement starts with the (head), the teacher engaging first with the students, only then will they follow suit.     

Works Cited

                                                                                                  

Ontiveros, Skye. “The Passion Project.” The Passion Project April 13, 2010: 14.

Watzlawick, Paul. “Hope, utopianism and educational renewal.” the encyclopedia of informal education Partial Version (2003): 22. Saturday, 31 August 2013. http://infed.org/mobi/hope-utopianism-and-educational-renewal/.