Being a teacher is a calling. It is the strong and determined belief that as a teacher, one can change the lives of the students for the better. It is the dedication and commitment towards moulding a child into a better person. Not only must a teacher teach basic academic subjects like English, maths, science, the teacher must also be a positive factor that affects the students’ moral and character development.

A teacher is one who firmly believes that he or she can change and help the students no matter the situation. A teacher is the one who will lend a helping hand when all hope seems lost. A teacher is the one who will be the beacon of light when all else seems dark. It is a difficult, challenging and sometimes heart wrenching thing to do but a teacher must never back down in these times. Most of the time when students need help it is because they don’t have parent, their parents don’t care or they themselves don’t care, then if the teacher don’t care by giving excuses like “there is a limit to what teachers can do” or “teachers are not super mans”, the students will simply become forever delinquent and become a number lost in the statistics of needy, poor or criminal database.

My expectations of a teacher are extremely high because the duty of a teacher is perhaps one of the noblest professions of all. If we educate our youngs properly, they will grow up to be a generation of morally upright, generous and people with empathy grounded in professional knowledge. If we do not educate our youngs, a whole generation would be lost. It is my desire to see all my students being changed. Perhaps it is a tall order, a dream. But all great things are born out of dreams and the actions to achieve those dreams. If we all as teachers can dream big for our students, just dream big, we can imagine what our future society will become. With only realistic expectations but without dreams, nothing great will be achieved.