Are you an stressed teacher?

Glad to read this Yahoo News,

' Are Singapore teachers overworked?'


I was thinking I was the only one to be overworked as an online teacher, when I realized that my course had been deleted on the second week of my Spanish for Health Care Professionals (course I developped & teach at CDL, at SUNY ) during the Nov. 2009 Term. You can't imagine what stress is till this hapen to you! Can you imagine what this means till you can see it again online as it was...and in just a week?... fighting by e-mail with technitians who don't know a Spanish word at all!! Funny, isn't?

Well, thanks God we were given an "enlargement" (without being paid more, of course!) and the course , in the end, was finished by me, late in February 2010!!!

Oh, another good fact! In my country, Spain, figures say that 90% of public teachers -all of them civil servants = good salary & a secure post for the rest of their lives! =>nothing to worry about economics!- are going to the psychiatrist 'cose they're depressed!! Any clues about why?

Some "silly" ideas come to my mind about their possible causes (poor of them!!):

1 - Students' lack of motivation.

2 - Contents have nothing to do with real life and new technology dealing with & quicky need of teachers' adaptation to them.

3 - Contents too long to be taught during planned too short hours.

4 - Most students behave more like animals in a jungle ...than in a classroom,  'couse they are getting bored with such non-sensical-for-them-contents & depressed & un-motivated teachers, they now more about TIC than their teachers' do, etc.

5 - Let's start at the first reason and read it again, once and again.


My tip: "Don't worry , be happy!" ... sooner or later all of us will be dead!! };=D


Best,

BI