No, not unless they want to be. You are paid to teach, to care. If you can’t make even a halfway convincing show of trying then you’re a disgrace to the people who try to earn their money.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a cop picking his nose while people run red lights in front of him. It doesn’t matter if you’re a musician going through the motions in front of an audience that has paid good money. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mechanic pretending to fix something or an accountant who doesn’t care about how much tax his client has to pay.
You’ve entered into an agreement to do something useful and to be rewarded for it. If you feel it’s not useful then make room for someone who sees things differently. They deserve the money more than you do, and the students deserve a better teacher, because that’s what they’ve paid for.
Teaching doesn’t have to be your career. You don’t really need massive qualifications. But if you are taking money from people who are paying you to help them then the least you can do is make a little effort. How are you going to go about aiding da student in a buxiban environment so he can excel in his highschool or Univ’s prof class, where he is learning English? You have to start by seeing yourself as a teacher, by believing that you have something of value to exchange for the poor bastard’s money. Describe yourself as ‘merely’ anything and you’re belittling the whole endeavour and all the other people involved in it.
It’s no wonder Imani sounds angry.[/quote]
Obviously you shouldnt have a poor atitude when performing your job, and also should be professional, like u mentioned regardless if U R teaching english or selling bubble tea.
However, besides complaining about some ppl’s bad attitudes the OP mentioned
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The lackadaisical, “the-teaching-industry-in-Taiwan-is-a-joke-so-I’ll-play-the-part-of-the-comedian-telling-it” attitude really, really pisses me off. I am sick and tired of lazy, no-good SOBs coming here and poisoning the classrooms of children with their horrible lack of interest in teaching, treating it as simply a better way of making money than staying at home and working at a blue-collar job. I’m sick and tired of people who cannot own up to the fact that they don’t have real teaching qualifications and therefore feel that they can write off having any culpability because of their lack of teaching skills and training. I am sick and tired of those people who treat teaching as simply the easiest means to stuff their pockets with cash. Why do people feel that teaching is just a job to fill the time between paydays? Why do these useless wastes feel that they deserve the title of “teacher” when they are simply the English-speaking trained monkey complaining about their station in life yet perpetuating it with their lack of motivation to become a better teacher?
I know there are plenty of people out there in Taiwan who are not like this and who have a genuine interest in not only teaching the students put in their charge, but also in improving their own teaching techniques and methods. What one lacks in training can easily be made up for in a desire and effort to improve, grow, and achieve as a teacher.[/quote]
this is where he will get upset wid me as: I dont have a genuine interest to become a better teacher (don’t attend teacher workshops, TESOL courses, attend college/Univ for english credits), i don’t have any REAL TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS, (5000poo_something posted a neat defenition of a prof. english teacher) and I cannot pretend/be fake and ask students about their personal lives when i dont care. If a student though is interested in a certain topic, I will incorporate it into da curriculum, but solely because he is da customer and I want to satisfy him/her so I can keep ma job, not because i think it’ll improve learning.
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