I think that no one can decide this problem and find some balance between private life and teaching. Mostly it depends on the character of the person, their skills, experience and hardiness. Some teachers plan their day by the minute and they are able to do everything what they plan without any efforts. In this case the person must choose what is more important and influential for him – career or private life. It is almost impossible to combine these two things together because in any case something of them can suffer a little. I know many cases when people have been teaching in public schools for 10 or even 20 years. But still they have found balancing family and personal life with teaching to be very difficult. It is because there are many activities that require the teachers to be there in the evening. And their planning periods are usually taken by meetings that are required by the principal, district, or parent conference. The only time to do planning is after school or at home.
I inquired after it and many teachers said that they spent most of their Sunday afternoons and evenings grading and planning for the next week. And I was surprised and shocked a little bit. I thought about it and arrived at the conclusion that it is very serious and probably unsolvable problem. But any way there must be a solution and the way out of it.
So in a flat spin I began to search some information and recognized that in some American schools teachers have their own assistants. Sometimes two teachers share one assistant (never more than two classes). And I decided that the only way to manage is to support teachers with assistants. That’s a way to absorb persons who are intelligent and need and want jobs in the education sector as well as keeping teachers from being burnt out and leaving the profession.
To be a perfect teacher and to spend time with your family is almost nonexecutable mission. But still I consider that it depends on the person’s character and his strength of will.
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