Healthcare Assignment: UNCC300, Semester 2, Teacher Challenges

This assignment examines the challenges faced by teachers in the healthcare sector, focusing on the principle of common good and the significant role teachers play in shaping students' lives. It discusses various challenges, including poor working environments characterized by low pay, harass...Read More

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The principle of common good refers that everything that have been shared are beneficial
for all of the members of a community. The issue that has been chosen is inadequate support for
teachers in schools. The teachers play a significant role in the shaping the life of every student.
They are best known for their significant role in teaching the students. The teachers create the
tone of the classrooms and also help in building a warm environment. The most common role
that the teacher play in the school is to teach the students. However, nowadays teachers face
several challenges which hampers their professional activities.
Discussion
The teachers teach global citizenship along with the normal curriculum of the students by
including sustainability, diversity and human rights in the lessons of the students. The teachers
use technology to connect students to the rest of the world (Goren & Yemini, 2017). They also
use issues of human rights to as a platform of discussion and the teachers also use the process of
learning and thinking for encouraging global citizenships both in and out of the classrooms. The
challenges which the teachers face in their professional development are described below:
 The greatest challenge which the teachers face in the professional development is the
working environment. The low remuneration of the teachers are very low in comparison
to all other professions. The probability of sexual harassment or abuse, lack of respect
from the other community members, overpopulated classrooms are the other most
important environmental challenges that the teachers face. The ratio of the teachers in
comparison to the students, especially the needy students are very low. It becomes
difficult for the teachers to teach all the students at a time (Krahenbuhl, 2016).

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 In such unprofessional environments, the teacher loses their professional identity. They
even loses their desires to make the identity more strong. The efficacies of the teachers
are strongly co-related with the performance of the teachers. Efficacy also relates the
perception of the teacher to the students. If the teacher receive little or no resources for
the students, they will lose confidence about their self-abilities as a teacher. Because of
the low wages, the teachers tends to get involved in doing extra works. This decreased
professionalism among the teachers is reflected as the lack of professionalism among the
whole education system (Abrar et al., 2018).
 The next challenge that the teachers face are the systematic challenges. Frail countries
mostly have poor education systems which are characterized by decreased leadership,
partial administrative capacity or insufficient budgets. Many of the poor countries are not
able to provide teachers with proper salaries and working environments or professional
chances that one finds in other different professions. The system of education lack
incentives for encouraging and helping the teachers improve their practice (Day & Hong,
2016).
 The next challenge that the students face is the conflicts. Not each and every countries are
in conflicts, but conflicts leads to the creation of multilayered challenges to opportunities
for professional development of the teachers. Where there are existence professional
development opportunities, it can be dangerous for teachers to attend those (Kali,
McKenney & Sagy, 2015).
 The next challenge is that poorly designed professional development. The policymakers
and the donor misunderstand who the teachers are and what they do and how they can
learn everything. It can occur only as a short-term basis and can be disconnected from

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policies around teacher recruitment, evaluation, preservation, sustain, and reimbursement.
(Yadav, Gretter & Hambrusch, 2015).
 The students should be empowered by the teachers in making a little difference in the
local environment and community. If the students are nurtured at present then they may
become caring citizens both globally and locally. The students are active learners so no
doubt if the students are encouraged to work in wider communities and spend plenty of
times in different community based programs then will become effective contributors in
future. The students play an important role in the future of humanity (Day & Hong,
2016). The more a student learn about humanity, the more he will be active in dealing
with the issues of the society. The students must learn about the society in which they are
living and learning order to contribute as much as possible.
Conclusion
In order to overcome the challenges, the leaders of the schools must help the teachers in
solving problems collaboratively. The problem of student behavior are being conveyed to school
leaders to resolve. This is one of the problematic issues as the leader would be construction a
good connection with that student but not with the teacher. This condition can be improved. The
teachers must focus on constructing meaningful relationships with the students in the starting of
the year and then maintaining them. If the case management team is provided with support then
the teachers may seek timely support from experts like psychologists for the students who show
tough behaviour.

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Reference
Abrar, M., Mukminin, A., Habibi, A., Asyrafi, F., Makmur, M., & Marzulina, L. (2018). “If our
English isn’ta language, what is it?” Indonesian EFL Student Teachers’ Challenges
Speaking English. The Qualitative Report, 23(1), 129-145.
Day, C., & Hong, J. (2016). Influences on the capacities for emotional resilience of teachers in
schools serving disadvantaged urban communities: Challenges of living on the
edge. Teaching and Teacher education, 59, 115-125.
Goren, H., & Yemini, M. (2017). The global citizenship education gap: Teacher perceptions of
the relationship between global citizenship education and students’ socio-economic
status. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67, 9-22.
Kali, Y., McKenney, S., & Sagy, O. (2015). Teachers as designers of technology enhanced
learning. Instructional science, 43(2), 173-179.
Krahenbuhl, K. S. (2016). Student-centered education and constructivism: Challenges, concerns,
and clarity for teachers. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues
and Ideas, 89(3), 97-105.
Yadav, A., Gretter, S., & Hambrusch, S. (2015, November). Challenges of a computer science
classroom: Initial perspectives from teachers. In Proceedings of the Workshop in Primary
and Secondary Computing Education (pp. 136-137). ACM.