Is teaching a glamorous and easy profession?

Families who only raise and educate 1-2 children often complain that it is 'difficult to teach' and 'heartbreaking'! As for the profession of teaching 40-50 children with different personalities, how many times would that difficulty and suffering be multiplied?

Grade 9 students, Trung Ly Secondary School for Ethnic Minorities, Muong Lat District ( Thanh Hoa ) review for the 10th grade entrance exam - Photo: HA DONG

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Circular No. 05/2025/TT-BGDDT regulating the working regime for general education and university preparatory teachers.

Accordingly, the working time in the school year of principals, vice principals, and teachers of general schools is 42 weeks (37 weeks of teaching the contents of the generaleducation program; 3 weeks of studying, training, and improving qualifications; 2 weeks of preparing for the new school year and summarizing the school year).

There are many different opinions about teachers' working hours. Reader Thanh Nguyen, who is currently teaching at a secondary school, sent Tuoi Tre Online an article sharing more opinions on this issue.

Compared to other professions, is it rushed and demanding?

According to the latest regulations, the standard number of working weeks for general teachers has increased.

This is somewhat reasonable as basic salaries are increasing and teachers' lives are gradually improving.

In the near future, teachers will be paid according to their job position. Increased income means that job requirements will also change in the direction of placing higher demands on education quality and work efficiency.

In the context of the fierce fluctuations of the labor market, it is true that being attached to the white chalk podium is a simple joy.

Stability in the teaching profession forces each teacher to continue to study and practice, constantly improve professional skills, and enthusiastically guide generations of students.

However, there are many opinions comparing teachers' working hours with other professions, including hasty sharing and harsh evaluations.

Every profession has its own hidden pressures, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the teaching profession faces countless pressures that outsiders find difficult to fully understand.

When you work for a salary in any position, eight hours at the office, no matter how busy you are with a thousand things, when you get off work, you can still put your work aside, get away from your worries about work, and take care of your personal life.

Teachers' workload cannot be quantified based on the number of actual teaching periods and concurrent duties.

There is an opinion that: "Nowadays, computers are cheap, recording equipment is available, teachers have textbooks for preparing lesson plans, preparing lectures once can be used for the whole year, distributing test papers for students to do in multiple choice format so grading tests takes less than 15 minutes."

Why is the teaching profession so bright and easy?

Teachers overwhelmed with competitions

A lesson taught according to the new general education program requires in-depth study of the lesson, preparation of lesson plans, and design of slides on teaching software to make the lesson lively.

Each class designs different activities to suit the cognitive abilities of students. Assignments must be given in advance for students to prepare, guide and orient students to carry out projects...

Requirements for lesson plans, activity design, and integration of content into lessons are constantly changing, and teachers must update them regularly.

Even the construction of test matrices changes constantly, forcing teachers to constantly move with the movement of the industry.

Teaching is not just about preparing lessons, teaching, giving tests and grading papers!

School activities are spread throughout the school year, with countless movements closely linked to the guiding and organizing roles of teachers.

Especially during the theme season, the new topics are really "overwhelming" because of the dense schedule: art performances to celebrate big holidays, team ceremonial competitions, schoolyard singing and dancing competitions, storytelling competitions under the flag, food display competitions, wall newspaper decoration competitions...

Then there are countless types of related records that require teachers to update regularly. Digital transformation applications are moving teachers' working environment to cyberspace, so is that update time counted towards the number of periods?

It is also the responsibility to take care of student learning, detect and resolve conflicts among students, listen to and prevent the risk of students dropping out of school, mobilize all collections to be completed on time, contact parents to warn of stagnant learning or negative signs in students...

In particular, the object of education is human beings, so there is no rigid model that can be applied to the task of teaching and educating students.

Teaching and educating people is always a journey that requires effort, enthusiasm, perseverance and love for the profession and children of the teaching staff who tirelessly cultivate knowledge, hone capacity and nurture the beauty of the soul for generations of young people.

Families only raise and educate 1-2 children, but many times they say it's "difficult to teach" and "heartbreaking"! But teachers have to stand in class and discipline 40-50 children with different personalities. How many times must that difficulty and suffering be multiplied?

As teachers, we are still striving for great goals and aspirations in the school environment.

I just hope everyone understands the hardships and difficulties behind the rigid time regulations on teaching hours for teachers.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nghe-giao-that-lung-linh-va-de-dang-20250310120222728.htm