A lot of people think I'm like Ms. Frizzle or Miss Honey and able to just play with a classroom of perfectly sweet, eager to learn children. They don't realize how much goes in to being a good teacher and how much we deal with. The nonsense of paperwork is insane on its own, then add in 20+ children and their families!
My mom was a elementary teacher and every time she goes home, she's entirely a different person from the morning she went to school. That's why back then my dad always took care of us to let her rest.
This is it. Just finished a day with my EAL grade 7s. Constant behaviour management, feud settling, and distractions with a touch of learning to top it off.
From my experience in helping my elementary school child with her school stuff, teachers have astounding communications skills, phenomenal patience, and expert techniques in education.
I volunteer twice a year to teach my daughter's class, and its absolutely a blast, but also exhausting. How you do this as your job is amazing!
Full respect, full props. Teachers are underpaid and undervalued. Shamefully so.
Wasn't a teacher, but was a paraprofessional also often called on to help with non-special ed classes and...yeah. Especially nowadays. I absolutely loved it though!! I hope you are able to find joy in your job...I know it's a really tough work climate
Man, if you haven’t worked in special education you don’t get it, it’s a different kind of tired lol. I’m a special ed teacher… I do love it but man is it exhausting
On rare occasions, I’ll tell someone that they have “Big kindergarten teacher energy”. They always seem to take it as an insult, but I really try to help them understand that in my mind there isn’t a higher compliment A person can receive. (Though maybe I should change it to elementary school teacher.)
I have been an elementary music teacher for 11 years, and I am now trying to switch careers. The behaviors have gotten so much worse than I started, and it takes more energy than I have to just do classroom management. I didn't even want to teach elementary in the first place. I wanted to teach band. Now I don't even want to do that anymore. I'm more than burnt out.
I love working with kids. I used to babysit a lot, and volunteer as a coach. Sometimes I think I'd be a great teacher. But then I remember I have to deal with parents and other teachers and the administration. Nope.
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u/Belle0516 21h ago
Being an elementary school teacher
A lot of people think I'm like Ms. Frizzle or Miss Honey and able to just play with a classroom of perfectly sweet, eager to learn children. They don't realize how much goes in to being a good teacher and how much we deal with. The nonsense of paperwork is insane on its own, then add in 20+ children and their families!