UPM-CALC/BBI2424 ACADEMIC WRITING/SEM 2/2016-17/WP/TASK 3

WRITING PORTFOLIO TASK 3

WRITING FORM (DRAFT)

NAME: NURFATIHAH BT ABDUL GHANI GROUP: 30

MATRIC No.: 182264

TOPIC: Challenges as educator

Thesis Statement:

Although becoming an educator is a wonderful profession but it also deal with difficult issues
such as to deal with the diverse personality of the students and to learn how to manage time
well.

Body Paragraphs:

Firstly, the challenges as educator is to deal with the diverse personality of the
students. As we know, in school students come from the different background in terms of
their family background, culture, religion, and lifestyle. Like people always said A class of
twenty students will likely have twenty different personalities at twenty different places
academically. This is extremely challenging as an educator in developing a bond with
students. Sometime, students did not respect teachers because of the low level of morality in
self. Meador (2016) write about Respecting Students is Essential for Boosting Effectiveness.
He says, teachers should try their best to create a good relationship with students even
though it take time and not very easy. Besides that, he says self-respect is one of the key to
create this relationship. Thus, without a good self-respect from student to teacher,
developing a bond will be a difficult mission for teacher to achieve. Besides that, what are
one students strength will be another students weakness and vice versa. This is
challenging as educator to figure out individual strength and weaknesses since it is important
for them in adapting class activities and to make sure it is suitable for the diverse personality
of the students. Furthermore, it is difficult for educator to think varies activities that suitable
for the teaching topic. The Positive Teacher-Student Relationship (n.d) explain about each
student has a different technique of learning. He says this will challenge teacher in order to
create a good bonding with students and adapting class activities by doing many activity that
suitable with the lesson. Thus, to deal with diverse personality of the students is a
challenging task for educators.
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Lastly, the challenges as educator is to learn how to manage time well. Managing
your time in this fast-paced world can be a very difficult task. The phrase, "A teacher's work
is never done?" try to explain that teaching is a challenging profession, and with it comes the
need to balance daily tasks, goals, and not to mention an overwhelming amount of
paperwork. As we know, educator is human who has their own life, own family, and their
own priority. So, to organize the day by priorities as educator is very challenging for them.
This is because most of their time are distracted by personal things. Marshall (2008)
explained about why a hardworking teacher cannot produce an excellent student and it is
because they constantly distracted by personal things. As a result students will be neglected
because of the poor time management and it also will reduce their productivity. For example,
sometime teachers cant enter the class because they cant handle a personal problems. As
a result, they already missing the teaching hours and topics that they should cover for that
time. Students will be automatically effected from this problem. Management of time also
challenging for educator when they have to maximize the lesson planning in limited teaching
hours. As we know, the duration time given for each subject is only 1 to 2 hours for a day
and each week will be only 2 to 3 time for the teacher to teach the subject. At the same time
there are a lots of topic that need to cover and some of it are difficult to teach in short period
of time. Stronge (2007) write about a good teacher will study a lot of information to teach
according to the suitability of the information and the precision of the information with time
given in teaching; as an example, teacher will emphasize an important topic and formulate a
topic that is considered to be not too important. Therefore, learn to manage time is the
hardest part for educators.
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References:

Meader. D. (2016). Respecting Students is Essential for Boosting Effectiveness.

Retrieved from: https://www.thoughtco.com/respecting-students-is-essential-for-
boosting-effectiveness-3194682

The Positive Teacher-Student Relationship (n.d). Retrieved from:

https://www.csun.edu/~acc50786/Education.html

Marshall (2008). Priority Management for Principals. Retrieved from:

https://www.marshallmemo.com/articles/Time%20Management%20PL%20Mar%2008.pdf

Stronge (2007). Qualities of Effective Teachers: Planning and Organizing for Instruction
(2nd ed.). Retrieved from:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/105156/chapters/Planning-and- Organizing-for-
Instruction.aspx
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