Life as a teacher

To all those teachers out there. What has one teacher to tell the others. Welcome to life as a teacher. How do you find your days? Are there days when you feel like just not going into class n on the other days full of enthusiasm and raring to go? Do you suffer from burnout? Let us ponder on our teaching and which of the part do you find the most taxing? You would have different answers but for me the most tedious is the marking and providing the feedback? Why?

Simple for I am a language teacher and a language teacher means having different skills to be taught n the most tiring of it all is the writing skill. Get my train of thought? Tecaching 5 classes of English with a minimum of 40 students in a class. One essay for each student multiplied by 200 n you have got 200 essays coupled with directive need to provide 2 essays a month. Is it not an endless marking from which u have no reprieve. I wonder how you teachers out there are coping with it. Like to share your ideas on how to reduce the burden... oops I dont like the word burden why not change it to chllenge? Ha I like it better now. That is just about essays n how about comprehension, summary, journal writing, literature... the list is endless.

Let us share our views about this n maybe we could open the eyes of the higher ups to our plight and something could come out of it A special reward awaits for the first to respond