Why did you become a teacher? Why do you stay in the teaching profession?
If you work in education, you can probably answer the first question. Depending on how long you’ve been in the profession, it might take some thinking. There was a reason you got into education and there’s a reason why you stay.
Teaching is a calling. But, what does it mean for something to be a calling? The writer and author Frederick Buechner said a person’s calling is something “(a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done.” A calling is a that place where your needs and the world’s needs collide.
Hopefully, if you’re in education, it is what you need most to do. It is work that inspires you, makes you jump out of bed in the morning, and keeps you energized.
Education is certainly work the world needs to have done. It is the most important thing we do as a society, because every profession is based on the idea that individuals in those fields learn from teachers.
So, why did you become a teacher, and why do you stay in the profession? Hopefully it’s your calling because the world needs passionate teachers who feel like they need to be teachers. Most importantly, there are classrooms of students who need you to help change their lives.