@Kalsoom said in What are your current (or future) challenges in teaching?:
@Hendra I'm Kaloom from Pakistan. As a teacher in a rural area, here are some challenges I face, and it might be global, such as diverse student needs. As each individual has different learning styles, abilities, and diverse social and cultural backgrounds. Being teachers, we must use approaches and teaching methodologies accordingly. Limited resources, poor infrastructure, outdated technology, and insufficient materials also affect the teaching learning process. Teacher workloads, overcrowded classrooms, ever-changing curricula, heavy administrative tasks, and paperwork get teachers tired and limit their professional growth. Assessment pressure in education can result in multiple negative results for students, including increased anxiety, stress, and probably negative impacts on their mental health and academic performance.
Thank you Ms. @Kalsoom for sharing your current challenges being an educator in your region. What you mentioned are actually the common challenges faced by others in other regions around the world too. Tho perhaps the degree, solutions approaches, and responses might be different from one another; but they do exist similarly elsewhere.
At times, we might feel how it is better to teach in different region where the challenges are different than ours currently. The grass always greener on the other side. However, the underlining issues are equivalently shared with majority of teachers around the globe. Sadly but true, these challenges, when they are too overwhelming for teachers/schools to manage, will instigate the students as well. Their performances, motivation, and long-term goals.
Overcrowded schedules for assessments for instance, when hectic weeks start to rampage all routines at school, students feel the effect. Anxiety from teachers to catch up with academic calendars, will drag students and create anxiety for them too. This is only one of the many examples a school might experience.
How do you handle or overcome your own anxiety, especially during the busiest months of the year? What do you do to stay in high spirit and motivated while our academic calendar is just full of notes from end to end? 