When are teachers supposed to rest?
Today we are officially closing the schools for the June winter holidays and I am ecstatic. It’s finally time to rest, detox and relief stress. After a hectic few weeks of examinations, my mind and body went through the most. I love what I do. It’s true when they say that teaching is a calling. Those who regard it simply as a job or profession never last long in it. But I do wish that we stick to what we get paid for and be compensated for the extra miles that we go to at the request of our employers.
Don’t get me wrong, workshops are an essential part of teacher development and betterment of the education system as a whole. I always gain valuable skills and information whenever I attend them. I rather do enjoy them. They are essential BUT they come at the sacrifice of the teachers’ personal time.
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Here’s my grief, why aren’t workshops held during schooling time? The department makes special time for extracurricular activities to take place during school days. There are functions held during school days. The one important component that’s excluded is a workshop. Why is this? Isn’t it as important as functions and extracurricular activities? This makes absolutely no sense to me.
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Continuous development is necessary for any profession, especially a young developing one such as teaching. We’re in a trial and error phase where the department is trying to figure how to properly run this profession. My only concern is that teachers are being taken advantage of without any reciprocation by the department. Such issues are amongst those to be reviewed and ironed out in the near future as continuous development takes place.
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Solomon you know it that teachers also get a lot of free time in holidays. Which take atleast one month. Atleast teachers are fine. However bank tellers never have no time for themselves .
That should be an issue that gets addressed in the contract you are try to negotiate. In Massachusetts , teachers need so many of professional development to renew their teaching license. Most schools schedule a half an hour once a week after school for this.
If the school is requiring you to attend, they should be paying you!
Also, the teacher's salary increase as they gain graduate credits and degrees. So, their is an incentive for them to continue their education.
It's great that you spend time with workshops to improve yourself. Hopefully something happens so that these workshops can be done during school season and not during breaks.
Teachers require rest, as the mental and physical wear of the entire school year, so your mind and body asks.
Doing workshops, should be submitted to the consideration of the interested parties, should not interfere in your vacations, these are an inviolable right.
The training days could be done on some weekends, during the course of the year, when they are offering classes, or that the teachers decide, sacrifice their vacations or not.