some frens told me that i look like a teacher. geez, is the word "teacher" stamped on my forehead? y dont i look like a model? (haha that's a laugh). anyway, i was thinking abt this entry when i was in the staffroom, actually, everytime when i'm sitting down writing my lesson plans n not inspiring the students with inspirational talk (nagging).
anyway, this is an attribute to all the teachers, eventhough teachers' day is 3 months away.
You're a teacher when...
1. giving orders are like second nature to you, since you're used to bossing the students around.
2. you feel the impulsive need to correct a mistake.
3. you have ink marks (esp. red ink) on your favourite kebayas and handbags.
4.you become simultaneously the parent, the sister/brother, the teacher, the counsellor, the motivator, the clerk, the driver, the ceti... and still the ministry is thinking of instructing the teachers to do in school assessment for the public examinations...what have we been doing, partying?
5. you dont believe that they are just looking innocently at the student's paper next to them during exam...
6. you have to mark exam papers even outside school hours, most of the time during the holidays, and without extra pay. no OT is allowed.
7. you have to sit for some @$#@%$^% exams to be promoted (and you begin to wonder why they gave you scholarship to do masters if you're going to be stuck at the same grade until you pass the exam)
8. you memorise all the dates for school hols and major hols to escape from the mayhem.
9.the students still call you teacher or cikgu even when they've left school.
10. the only reward you want from your students is for them to pass the exams with flying colours
