Teaching is a noble profession -remember that always !

In one of the lectures that I have attended on school leadership, I felt pretty inspired when the lecturer challenged all of us to put "mission above self". This leads me to my topic this week - "Are we noble professionals?"

                                                            (Source : www.quora.com)


In my 15 years of service, I have witnessed the good and the "not-so-good" of human behaviours in the schools that I have been to.Thankfully we don't have these in our school.

While I do not need to go into the good things, some not so good things are :

• chasing after positions and promotions- When can I be HOD,VP & P ? (Wrong motive)
• running projects to impress with no clear educational outcomes for pupils
• backstabbing 
• misrepresentation (claiming that a majority stands for something but in fact is not true ) (Integrity issue)
• upset over PB

All these sadden me. As teachers, we are called to be role models to both our pupils and fellow colleagues. If we are always pre-occupied with all these distractions, how can we do a good job for our pupils ?

While MOE has the code of ethics to guide our professional conduct,it is useless if we lack personal self mastery. We must first conquer ourselves, our motives and to constantly align our moral compasses to our sense of mission and purpose.

To end, let us always remember- teaching is a noble profession. Keep it as such and be the teacher that you have first set out to be.