My reflection

Today, my school becomes the organizer of Cooking Competition for the state level. For the whole week my colleagues and I have been busy preparing for this special event. Each of us was assigned with specific tasks such technical, documentation, venue preparation, and other duties.

Being in charged of public address (PA) system really prompted me to channel all my energy and time to make sure everything goes on well. However when I reflect back I can say that I spent too much time focusing on this duty, thus leaving me less time and energy to focus on my core business of teaching.

And for me this is one of the major challenges faced by all the teachers nowadays. There are constant calls for teachers to fill in the job as clerks, technicians, gardeners, landscapers, sports coach and other responsibilities. The larger question is do teachers work hard at the right things? Are we focusing more to these secondary calling and rob us from our primary business? This is the question that keeps bordering me every time I was called to handle this secondary task.

Of course, through this multitasking and duties I have really learned a lot of new things and experiences that can really help me in my professional progress. However, I still feel guilty if I need to compromise the quality times with my students.

Perhaps the solution to this problem is time management. This is something we as a teacher needs to master and learn in these challenging days. Employing more clerks, gardeners and technicians per school may also solve this problem.

At the end of the day, there will always be a lot of tasks, responsibilities and expectation given to a teacher. We can’t change that .But what we can do is keep ourselves focus on our core business in whatever situation (I am reminding myself too) and work through these secondary duties.