In some
counties younger people are increasingly losing interest in teaching. Why is
this happening? What can be done to improve the situation? Give reasons for
your answer and include examples from your own experience.
Disenchantment from teaching is a quite commonly observed phenomenon among young people today. Despite many social theorists expressing concerns about this emerging trend, and terming this swing away from such a noble profession as being permanent - due to several plausible causes - there is surely a way out.
Taking up jobs as teachers is not in vogue among youngsters anymore since most seek excitement which seems to be missing in an activity that needs tutors to subject themselves to a repetitive task of revising chapters before entering the class. Preparing a lesson, as per many, involves reading and re-reading lessons, to be delivered next day. This is tedious, and in such a scenario boredom catches up pretty fast with a generation that is bereft of patience, an elementary trait required to be a teacher.
On the top of that, to make the matters worse, the job of coaching students is fast losing its sheen: opportunities for career progression are extremely limited; and when an upcoming generation, that is seeking fame and quick success, teaching is the last thing they would love to do. Being an educator means slow progress: it may take years of hard work to get the next promotion.
However, there is hardly any reason for such pessimism: all that needs to be done is to make the things a little easy and interesting: introducing technology to aid young teachers, to render relief from repetitive work, and allow them to carry out further research that would eventually help them improve their chances of graduating to next levels; and hence also get fame and riches.
Hence, I feel even though youth is swaying away from occupation of teaching, they can be encouraged to become teachers by delving into issues sensitively and introducing innovation.
