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Picture yourself as a teacher. You wake up very early in the morning to prepare the food for you and your family. Your children aren't awake yet and you have to go and wake them up. Then proceed to your morning ritual which is giving your children instructions, not only instructions sometimes but some short sermons to enlighten them up before you go back to yourself. By the time you are ready for work, you are then too tired to lift your heavy bag with the books, lesson plans and packed lunch in it. Once you are in your classroom, you are too tired to teach.

Teachers are too busy from home to work everyday that sometimes there are teachers who prefer to work in the offices rather than practice their profession. Being a teacher means being a jack of all trades. A teacher must be prepared to become a multi-tasked individual when the need arises.

Facing realities in the profession a teacher is in is what a teacher must first consider before going into the profession. A teacher's job isn't that easy as teaching ABC and 123. It is a job that the most patient person must do. Imagine being a teacher and facing all the students with different personalities everyday. How could one cope if she is faced with a class of 50 students all yearning to learn that day? Not only that, a teacher's job is not just to teach the students but she must do a lot of things like attending meetings with parents who are often too demanding. If the administrator is too inconsiderate, there are projects to be considered too, lesson plans to be prepared and teaching demonstrations to be done. Sometimes when a teacher is new and the administrator is too strict, the teacher is made to demonstrate how to teach in front of the administrator and other teachers. That makes the teacher more stressed than she already is. And this would result to a total burnout. What could a teacher do?

First, a teacher must consider the time she has in her hands. Being systematic is what a teacher must always consider not to be stressed out in her job. She must also learn how to deal with her students as there are students who want to try the patience of their teacher. A teacher must be firm and strict and never shows weakness to her students. Children of today are different than children of long time ago. Students could really make their teacher cry if the teacher is weak. Teachers must bear in mind that they are the master in the classroom and show their students that what they say is what the students must do.

A teacher could be a friend to the students but there must always be a limit. Put a distance between you and the student and show them that you are the teacher and they are the students who must abide by your rules. It is not easy dealing with children especially the older ones. This is why teachers must find a way to make the students listen and do what they are told.

Teaching is perhaps one of the hardest jobs but with the teacher's initiative, she could enjoy the job. The first year of teaching is usually the hardest part because the teacher is still adjusting to the profession and to the students. But once the teachers learns of a good way of facing all the situations regarding the job, it would then be easier to cope.

What a teacher must do to avoid burnout is to learn to enjoy the job and make a systematic way of handling situations especially with the students and the administrator. Once a teacher has learned the easy way of doing things, everything would go just fine and smoothly just like the water coursing smoothly through.

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