Currently, I am watching the Bears game with three of my seven roommates and while we yell at the Bears for terrible plays, we are also complaining about our landlord. (If he was yours, I promise you wouldn’t like him either). He is irresponsible and doesn’t complete the tasks that his job description entails. We have called him about some things that need fixing in our home, and instead of coming over to check it out, he asks us questions and attempts to blame us for everything that needs fixing. Talk about frustrating!
This past week I started practicum and although I have a good idea of what is expected of me as a future educator, being back in a high school classroom really laid out those extra responsibilities that I slightly forgot about (woops!). I am passionate about studying to be a teacher and I absolutely love the students I am working with at West high school, along with my cooperating teacher. It is great being able to experience what is it like to be the one in charge of a classroom and I take it very serious. I had teachers in high school a lot like my landlord. Both they and you know what is expected of them but they don’t provide. These educators frustrated me to no end and as a result I resented them and going into their classroom. I always wanted to ask, “Why are you a teacher if you aren’t going to follow through and complete your job?” In any profession it is very important to keep up with your responsibilities and for us if we remembered to stay motivated and do this everyday, then both you and students can succeed, plus, they will respect you more too. Responsibilities are a huge part of life and even though it sounds cheesy, I like what is expected of me as a future teacher and am motivated to take on tasks, completing my job to the best of my ability. Practicum has only reassured me more about how excited I am to be an educator and I am willing to take on all expectations.
As you might have guessed, I don’t respect my landlord.
Bad landlords are annoying. We are dealing with the same thing! Stay strong about your rights- if things get really bad you can get free legal advice as a student: http://imu.uiowa.edu/legal/
ReplyDeleteI like your statement about remembering to do our job as teachers!
Good analogy! Also with that thought, I think if you are a good landlord, your tenants have more incentive to try to be good tenants and keep the communications on good terms, and students certainly have the same idea.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree terrible landlords are frustrating! (I am currently trying to get a screen door fixed that has been broken since we moved in back in August) I like how you said we need to remember our responsibilites as teachers-I think sometimes I get so wrapped up in homework, I forget why I'm doing it in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI like what you said about remembering our responsibilities as teachers. I know that this will be good advice to remember especially when all of us encounter difficult students.
ReplyDeleteIt can be really hard to understand why anyone who wasn't committed to teaching would want so much work for so little pay. Oh yeah, you get the summers off, too (not really, if you are taking classes, etc.). You can tell the teachers that are waiting for the bell to ring everyday and it just seems sad.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you connect your frustrating landlord to frustrating teachers--very clever! And I totally agree with it. My landlord takes forever to get projects going; my room didn't have blinds when I moved in and I still don't-- even after several phone calls--so I've been forced to put a blanket up over my window at night-so frustrating! And I remember having some teachers in high school who seem like they don't know their responsibilities, and I too did not have much respect for them.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering where you were going with the landlord talk, but your analogy makes complete sense. I especially like the line about both of us knowing our responsibilities, but the landlord (and teacher) still not acting in accordance with those responsibilities- so true
ReplyDeleteI love your comparison, it worked together perfectly! I definitely remember all the teachers that were only teachers really to coach some team or other, and didn't care about teaching at all. All this serves as a good reminder to stay passionate and work to fulfill our responsibilities as teachers!
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