Hey everyone! I am Hendra Senjaya, from Indonesia. Currently teaching CIE Cambridge, AS/A Level Business 9609.

What are your current challenges being a teacher/educator in your institution/city/country? How do they influence (or even restraint) your teaching?

For example, one of the biggest challenges for teachers here is the complexity of regulations and curriculum that change from time to time. Sometimes, just right before we settle down with a curriculum system or mode, the regulations change again. It is challenging since the time constraint to adapt and implement can be quite short. While the practices at the schools have been implemented differently for the past few years.

It creates such confusion, uncertainty, and unnecessary exhaustion for everyone. Which limits our students to actually focus on what are necessary to face the 21st century learning environment. Even working environment.

Please share your thoughts, and experiences here. Thank you!

In my opinion, students should train and equip themselves with analytical thinking process, due to the information that will flood them from various, and easy to access sources of information. They should be able to identify, sort, and summarize the information based on their needs and necessities.

The second skill, that perhaps students should instil and become more incumbent in their learning process is on how to integrate the use of AI responsibly and positively. Refusing or underestimating the use and integration of AI into their learning journey and working process, will make them an inept learners. Being able to process and integrate AI in producing a high quality of works professionally will enable them to compete in the future.

I am Hendra Senjaya, I am from Indonesia. Currently I am teaching CIE Cambridge AS/A Level Business 9609. I am teaching secondary students, and this year I am teaching the Grade 10 and Grade 12 students.

My favorite part of my job is when I could lead my students to explore the deeper understanding of concepts and applications in business environment. Not only to cover our textbook topics, but also the recently activities happening around us. Business environment is a fast-pacing evolving, and a dynamic realm where a lot of different elements in a society interconnected with one another.

When I'm not working, I enjoy watching movies, and playing computer games. At times, I will just browse the internet looking for various interesting topics whether it relates to my subject of teaching, or just to fulfil my personal interests.

Good day, Irina! This sounds great! Forum like this will allow teachers and educators around the world to build collaborative works outside our rigid or restricted syllabus or curriculum.

Which perhaps would continue beyond the timeline of this contest.

My fellow educators, thank you for all of these sharing! From the responses, there are some repeating or similarities points or factors that most of us are facing or familiar with.

1. Lack of resources, due to internal limitations or external limitations (regulations, government's funding, political reasons, socio-cultural circumstances).

2. Academics and parental expectations that could lead to overloading and overlapping responsibilities, which at the end could create exhaustion for the teachers.

3. The ever-changing and growing curricula, which from time to time could create confusion and uncertainties of the future plan or progress for the schools and their teachers to focus on their apparent challenges and responsibilities. It is because, at times, the changes are not supporting positive progression, instead, it gives more unclear directions within our own region (local) or nationwide.

In my humble opinion, the most fundamental and most urgent factor is to aligned the involved parties in education. Both the government and schools or educational providers should envisioned the same values, objectives, and plannings.

As long as there are misaligned or even contrasting values or objectives, these challenges will always hinder the progress and growth of education. At times, the needs of teaching community could even be used as a vessel to gain some political objectives, which is actually sad.

Turning or directing these needs to private sectors could also serve as two-sided blades. At one side, the speed of progress could be said faster in some context. However, on the other side, the costs of practicing such approaches could be high. At the end, the parents and the students will be faced with such high tuition fees. In some regions, the high costs of education is preventing or limiting access to education.

Thank you for such detailed sharing! These points could serve as a to-do list, or checklist for us to deliver a holistic delivery of lessons!

One other challenge is for educators to find the most appropriate sources of learning and/or collaborating with other educators.

With the vast growth of ICT, and exposure to information nowadays, it could be an overwhelming situation where teachers are overloaded with options or possibilities. At times, it can be quite difficult to decide which could be the best and most appropriate source of learning.

Not only context-wise, but also the application of such enrichment process. Choosing sources would also mean getting the right feedback methods to follow-up of what we deliver in our classes/sessions.

The apparent flow of ICT possesses both advantages and disadvantages for educators and students. A group of students will have a wide variety of backgrounds, which influences the way students respond to topics, the transfers of knowledge, and the conducts of assessments.

What are your most evident challenges in preparing, or guiding your students for next decade?

@Oojala-Tasneem Thank you for sharing your experiences. What are your suggestion for those who might be in the same situation as you are?

How much support do the school and government offer for teachers to overcome such challenges?

@Rafia-Khokhar said in What are your current (or future) challenges in teaching?:

What I experienced ,emotional and Social Support for Students is also a big challenge,
helping students with trauma, anxiety, or other mental health issues and acting as mentors or counselors without formal training
Any one who had such experience?

That is correct, at times, our students might experience or struggle with their trauma, anxiety and other mental issues, which sadly are caused by accessing social media accounts. Their young age are the most vulnerable segment that could be influenced or swayed easily by a few inappropriate postings.

Body shaming, insults, or other offensive remarks that are shared openly or privately through these means of telecommunication technologies are now, unforunately, happen a lot amongst students.

There have been several occasions on my end, where students would find us to be the place they are looking for comfort, advices, and support. To some points, several circumstances or I may use the word, cases, are beyond our capability since we don't have the proper qualitifcations and trainings.

However, the possibilities of these cases happening around us, amongst our students, are growing greatly. The freedom of choosing and using telecommunication means to communicate, share, or connect amongst teenagers could become double-edged sword for them.

It is such a dilemmatic situation for schools and their managements. These cases should be delicately handled, with proper steps or procedures, which most teachers are not aware of. However, to provide such additional coaching sessions are not always the most viable option. It will add more hours and workloads for a lot of teachers to handle while some have more than enough on their plates.

The facts that some students would just choose any teachers they are comfortable to talk to, also gives another challenges for the schools. The role and functions of school guidance and counselors would be blurred or overlapped by such notion from the students. While at the same time, the teachers could not instantly refuse or direct the students to thei school counselors.

In my experience, I would usually listen to their sharing. If things are beyond my ability to provide consultation, I would offer my students the options to either see and talk to the school counselors or experts from outside of our school such as psychologists.

Based on my experience, this could be done via sessions with some real evidences. I am teaching CIE Business for AS/A Level, so there are always several occasions where I could share to my students some real unlawful practices in business world where the prepetrators use technologies as their main channel.

Scamming and phishing are the most common to be found that related to our business context. I take it in three simple steps, the first one is that I show them the real cases involving some unlawful activities that used technology, then I shared with them the empathy and responsibility that one should show or do when such things happen, and lastly but not the least important, we discuss on how to stay safe and not become the victim of scamming and phishing.

We have daily cases involving these two acts and mainly happen via WhatsApp, SMS, e-mail or links in social media.

To equip them and also to answer the thread, I will share with my students about the uses of softwares, forums, and apps, that can help me to navigate safer on the internet. They are taught to be a responsible internet citizens by not forwarding hoaxes, illegitimate news, etc.

@Oojala-Tasneem Thank you for sharing your experiences. What are your suggestion for those who might be in the same situation as you are?

How much support do the school and government offer for teachers to overcome such challenges?

My fellow educators, thank you for all of these sharing! From the responses, there are some repeating or similarities points or factors that most of us are facing or familiar with.

1. Lack of resources, due to internal limitations or external limitations (regulations, government's funding, political reasons, socio-cultural circumstances).

2. Academics and parental expectations that could lead to overloading and overlapping responsibilities, which at the end could create exhaustion for the teachers.

3. The ever-changing and growing curricula, which from time to time could create confusion and uncertainties of the future plan or progress for the schools and their teachers to focus on their apparent challenges and responsibilities. It is because, at times, the changes are not supporting positive progression, instead, it gives more unclear directions within our own region (local) or nationwide.

In my humble opinion, the most fundamental and most urgent factor is to aligned the involved parties in education. Both the government and schools or educational providers should envisioned the same values, objectives, and plannings.

As long as there are misaligned or even contrasting values or objectives, these challenges will always hinder the progress and growth of education. At times, the needs of teaching community could even be used as a vessel to gain some political objectives, which is actually sad.

Turning or directing these needs to private sectors could also serve as two-sided blades. At one side, the speed of progress could be said faster in some context. However, on the other side, the costs of practicing such approaches could be high. At the end, the parents and the students will be faced with such high tuition fees. In some regions, the high costs of education is preventing or limiting access to education.

Thank you for such detailed sharing! These points could serve as a to-do list, or checklist for us to deliver a holistic delivery of lessons!

One other challenge is for educators to find the most appropriate sources of learning and/or collaborating with other educators.

With the vast growth of ICT, and exposure to information nowadays, it could be an overwhelming situation where teachers are overloaded with options or possibilities. At times, it can be quite difficult to decide which could be the best and most appropriate source of learning.

Not only context-wise, but also the application of such enrichment process. Choosing sources would also mean getting the right feedback methods to follow-up of what we deliver in our classes/sessions.

The apparent flow of ICT possesses both advantages and disadvantages for educators and students. A group of students will have a wide variety of backgrounds, which influences the way students respond to topics, the transfers of knowledge, and the conducts of assessments.

What are your most evident challenges in preparing, or guiding your students for next decade?

I am Hendra Senjaya, I am from Indonesia. Currently I am teaching CIE Cambridge AS/A Level Business 9609. I am teaching secondary students, and this year I am teaching the Grade 10 and Grade 12 students.

My favorite part of my job is when I could lead my students to explore the deeper understanding of concepts and applications in business environment. Not only to cover our textbook topics, but also the recently activities happening around us. Business environment is a fast-pacing evolving, and a dynamic realm where a lot of different elements in a society interconnected with one another.

When I'm not working, I enjoy watching movies, and playing computer games. At times, I will just browse the internet looking for various interesting topics whether it relates to my subject of teaching, or just to fulfil my personal interests.

Hey everyone! I am Hendra Senjaya, from Indonesia. Currently teaching CIE Cambridge, AS/A Level Business 9609.

What are your current challenges being a teacher/educator in your institution/city/country? How do they influence (or even restraint) your teaching?

For example, one of the biggest challenges for teachers here is the complexity of regulations and curriculum that change from time to time. Sometimes, just right before we settle down with a curriculum system or mode, the regulations change again. It is challenging since the time constraint to adapt and implement can be quite short. While the practices at the schools have been implemented differently for the past few years.

It creates such confusion, uncertainty, and unnecessary exhaustion for everyone. Which limits our students to actually focus on what are necessary to face the 21st century learning environment. Even working environment.

Please share your thoughts, and experiences here. Thank you!

Good day, Irina! This sounds great! Forum like this will allow teachers and educators around the world to build collaborative works outside our rigid or restricted syllabus or curriculum.

Which perhaps would continue beyond the timeline of this contest.

In my opinion, students should train and equip themselves with analytical thinking process, due to the information that will flood them from various, and easy to access sources of information. They should be able to identify, sort, and summarize the information based on their needs and necessities.

The second skill, that perhaps students should instil and become more incumbent in their learning process is on how to integrate the use of AI responsibly and positively. Refusing or underestimating the use and integration of AI into their learning journey and working process, will make them an inept learners. Being able to process and integrate AI in producing a high quality of works professionally will enable them to compete in the future.