Why It Is So Hard To Be A Teacher?

 Why It Is So Hard To Be A Teacher?

Teaching is a great job for many. It is a calling. You have to want to be a teacher. Few teachers are in the field for a paycheck. It is a passion that calls you to dream, think, and live the role of an educator. Time and time again, you are figuring out ways to teach a topic your students do not quite understand. That is the amazing part of being a teacher. This is why those who love teaching teach.

However, as the world knows, teaching is also challenging. Long hours with low pay lead to teacher burnout and apathy. Young teachers, full of energy, often leave the field after a few years. Many new teachers quit after the first year, and more leave after five years in the teaching profession. This high turnover showcases the challenging aspects of a public school teacher.

When you see a young person playing a video game with all this passion and focus, imagine that same intensity being utilized in a classroom. Think of all the subjects they could learn and become skilled at if they had the same drive with their studies as entertainment. Perhaps the key to improving public school education is allowing students to select their educational journey. One reason why YouTube is so popular is that you can pick what you want to watch when you want to watch it. This could be incorporated into public school education. Offering diverse subjects for all students to find an area where they can thrive. When a student is busy working on a project that they are passionate about, discipline problems disappear, and students cannot wait to attend school. Imagine students begging to go to school because they cannot wait to learn the subjects they are passionate about. Imagine teachers dreading summer vacation because our students want to learn so passionately. Today, with all the technology available, many of these solutions could be incorporated into public schools.

Can public schools become bastions of inquiry, creativity, and learning? Schools could transform into institutions that young people would request to remain open during holidays and weekends. Instead of forcing students to learn subjects, they could be free to pick areas they are passionate about and flourish. Educators, you can dream big for your students and yourself. Teaching can become a job so desired that there will be a surplus of teachers for every position. Today is the day to take responsibility and improve education for all students and teachers.

One Cycle

 One Cycle 

Every year, one can reflect on the previous year. Various events happen annually. Some are perceived as positive, and others as negative. Regardless of your perception, events will continue to happen throughout your life. How you react and consider these events helps make you who you are.

Each person has to live with their choices and decisions throughout their life. How you treat others is also how you treat yourself. What you think and what people will say about you once you expire are considered by many and not by others. When you look into the mirror, can you smile or frown at your actions?

Life is a wondrous, amazing gift, with experiences full of wonderment and excitement for the next adventure. The first time you explore a new area of the world, get a tasty treat, or meet amazing people you will be friends with for your life are common experiences. If you live long enough, you will have many experiences to reflect upon.

The best advice is to live life being kind and helpful to others. Make someone's life easier. Give a smile to a stranger. Help somebody when you can. Inspire those who long for inspiration. Be the example that gives others hope. When you go home and look in the mirror inside, there will be a smile so big that it will fill your heart with joy and fulfillment. That is your gift to humanity.

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When You Smell The Weather

 When You Smell The Weather

When You Smell The Weather

Do you remember the first time you smelled a weather change? Most likely, it was about to rain, not a big shower, just enough to give the grass a nice drink. But you knew it was going to rain by smell. You knew this because you had prior knowledge the last time you smelled the rain.

In life, we may not have the prior knowledge to make a decision. Making the best decision possible is easy if you know the outcome, but we do not. We have to decide quickly and live with the results. It is not fair, but that is life.

We make the best decisions we can with the information we have readily available. It may be a good decision, or it could be a bad one. But we make them because we have no other choice. 

Life would be easier if there were no difficult decisions. However, life is full of many decisions that affect your life and others. In the end, a choice is made, and hopefully, you will be fine regardless of the decision. 

The higher your rank in business or politics, the more difficult decisions will be. As the number of people affected by your actions increases, so will the stress of those decisions. Being in a high position may seem appealing due to the increased income, but it also comes with the heavy cost of having to make difficult decisions. If you want to be in charge, then you have to be in charge. 

Happily, most people do not have to make hard decisions for the masses, only you, your family, or your job. Hopefully, you have made many decisions so that you can solve them when the hard ones arrive. Like most things in life, the more you work at something, the better you are when it happens to you.

So before you criticize someone who has made a difficult decision, remember that they are doing their best with the current information. And if you want to make that difficult decision, you can work to make that happen. Then you will be in charge. 

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Laughing At The Past

Laughing At The Past

        Each generation thinks they are cool, hip, and in the know. Everyone thinks they know what is amazing and what is not. We do not. Time has a way of laughing at us. History can be hysterical, as time has shown throughout history.

At one point in time, people who performed mathematical calculations were called computers. In the 70s, no one could imagine a reason for a typical household to have a microcomputer. The sole rationale for having a computer in the 70s was to catalog your recipes from the engineers' point of view. A person who computes is no longer called a computer. Today, only some have written recipes they catalog. If they do, they are typed in a text file that could be searched without thought. History has shown us that understanding the future and emerging technologies is like reading tea leaves in a cup of water. No one knows what future technologies can bring. And they cannot predict what the future will bring.

Today, the buzzword in technology is artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM). Most have heard this new technology will ruin education and take away jobs. Perhaps large language models will lead to the destruction of the world. However, few in the population understand how large language models function. Large language models are not some amazing technology that is not understandable. Even looking at the words for LLM can help you understand how this technology works.

Large, hundreds of billions of parameters capture a vast amount of information from the data on which they are trained. Language, the model operates based on working with text and understanding the nuances of human language. Models are algorithms trained to perform various natural language processing tasks.

This may still be challenging to understand. However, large language models are as groundbreaking as the microcomputers in the home in the 1970s and the internet in the 1990s. Predicting all the applications that large language models will influence is not possible. The past has shown this. But it is fun to try.

Do not be afraid of large language models. It is a tool like a computer or the internet. You can learn how to use this tool and be more productive. Will jobs change due to large language models? Yes. But technology has always affected jobs going back to the wheel or pulleys. Simple machines change the world, and so will large language models. Education will adapt to large language models, such as teaching imbraced computers and the internet.

It will be amazing to see the future of large language models. Our lives will improve in ways that you may not notice. So, go out there and learn about large language models. What you understand, you do not fear.

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