Entry 5

The most important role a teacher plays is teaching.  But, it is not that simple.  Teaching is not just standing in front of a classroom, lecturing, and then testing the students.  Teachers spend time learning themselves.  They learn new ideas on the subject matter, they spend hours planning lessons, they analyze test results, and design lesson to fit the students needs.  Teachers get to know each students interest to plan their instruction of the lesson.  Teachers are facilitators and tutors in their own classroom.  They look for tools to spark the interest of students to challenge their brains and learn to solve problems.  Teaching is the most important role for a teacher, but it is also the most challenging.
Teachers are not given a blue print of lessons and the students they are teaching.  Teachers are learning everyday of how to spark the interest of each of their students.  Sometimes they are not given the tools they need to help their students, due to funding of districts, and they have to learn to improvise.  Also, with some curriculum teachers are held to a specific learning plan.  This sometimes can limit their creativity to lessons, because students need to learn certain things for the national test they take.  Teachers want every student to be successful and sometimes trying to figure out how to help a student learn can be challenging.