Teaching was considered as Noblest profession for many years along with doctors in transforming the society. Today Teachers and Lecturers in private institutes are treated with disrespect. Being in teaching getting a bride or groom to start a new life has become unrealistic dream. Teaching is considered as least earning job and many in technical education consider people who had no other option chose teaching career. Many Youngsters who have earned Post graduation degrees and also
pursuing PhD do not get the respect they should derive for the qualification. Many Institutes provide prestigious positions for Non-teaching professionals as against teaching fraternity. Believe me or not Students rate Placement Officers of their institutes more than Lecturers who would have taught them basics and fundamentals for Four Years in their degree.
The Idea is simple: "Who is the person who lands you in Job Market with offers from industry are more valuable than people who had have inculcated subject knowledge in you." We can't blame parents or students for this, The market advocates success as Fetching high paid salary package, and placement offices provide this not poor teachers.
Today teachers have to juggle between various roles believe me majority of them is non-academic roles! Teachers have become 'multi-ball-jugglers'. They have to play roles of clerks, accountants, security personnel, maintenance in charge, Proctors/student counsellor, Placement coordinators, transport department coordinators, admissions coordinators, Publicity coordinators, Telecaller and many more non-academic roles without any additional incentives .
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| Teacher is a juggler |
Outsider's Perception About Teacher/Lecturer!
Friends, As an outsider many of you might think teachers/lecturers have two to three hours of work to deliver lecture and sleep rest of the time. Today this is not the case, I have worked in a private high school for one year and do you know Minimum 4-5 hours of teaching you have to do in 7 hours of stay there and your salary will be 12K or 17K maximum salary. Teachers would have studied Bachelors and B.Ed to take up these roles. I have come across an auto-driver, who quit his teaching job as he found Driving more lucrative.
While this is the case of primary and high school teachers in middle-level private schools. The Lecturers or so called Asst. Professors in Colleges work for peanuts salary in comparison to their counterparts in Industry. Their job is not that easy as outsider might think! They have become multi-ball jugglers playing role of clerk, security guard, telecaller, admission coordinator, publicity coordinator and many more, They can't even derive satisfaction from their primary role of teaching as teaching is taken for granted/default role by many managements, they expect lecturers to be multi-tasking in non-academic activities.
Finally even the qualification doesn't derive them the respect they deserve as even Doctorate holders are today brushed aside by many institutes, when it comes to paying them high package. I would like to conclude with a note that Teachers are made to play non-academic works in campus, which is creating frustration within this fraternity. Salary many of them would ignore, at least if they get the respect and job satisfaction they deserve, otherwise it will become one more mechanical jobs on this planet not a creative one!
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