Senior Staff Reporter, Mr. Habashi Rushdi from the daily newspaper Al-Watan discussed an important issue about the reasons why Qatari graduates opt not to join the teaching profession. Mr. Rushdi Habash highlighted the values of being a teacher and how teachers were respected in the past. He stated that the teaching profession is misconstrued in today’s world for two reasons.
Firstly, Qatari graduates keep away from the teaching profession because they are needed to develop the country’s educational system and bring Qatar among the countries that have already made advanced measures to achieve educational development.
Secondly, Qatar is still hiring teachers of different nationalities from all countries, spending huge amounts of money therefore pay no attention to any efforts to qualify and encourage the Qatari graduates to join the teaching profession.
Mr. Rushdi continued to say that the most important criteria to be used for measuring the success of the education development initiative is the level of interest of Qatari graduates in joining the teaching profession. He added that efforts to attract Qatari graduates to join the teaching profession have been unsuccessful.
Responding to the question why Qatari graduates do not join the teaching profession, a group of Qatari individuals said that they did not like the headaches brought about by teaching and would prefer to join professions with limited responsibilities. Others referred to the professional hierarchy in the society, which is still imbalanced and does not meet the actual priorities and requirements of the society. This group said that if this ladder is amended, many Qataris will proceed to serve as teachers with a different attitude, strong will, and high level readiness.
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nesrin
I think it is a world wide problem. Excelling students do not turn into teaching carreer. This is due to numerous reasons.First, teaching is the lowest paying job worldwide.
Second, teaching stopped being a social status in our Arab community.I once asked one of my students :why don't you want to be a teacher? She answered:I dont want to be mocked by students all the time.
Third, our teaching system is failing teachers. Between human rights projects and rules of physical abuse and modern teaching methods ,the teacher had become a clown and a door mat for every body. Students are now less focused than before and distracted between satellite channels , internet and other entertainment gadgets.
WE are teaching only because we know that we are the last resort for values in this community.I live in Lebanon and I think this is a common problem in all Arab countries
14 February 2008, 10:15
gladtoto
14 February 2008, 12:30
College Graduate
I have heard from a few teachers that it was much better in Germany and Ireland. In those countries, the parents get involved and spend time at the schools helping out and the businesses give teachers discounts and priority service.
3 March 2008, 02:15