Teaching is one of the most imperative profession among all other professions globally. This
profession serves as the anchor that other professions lean on for the development of their human
resource.
Despite the significant role of teaching profession to social, economic, political and cultural
development of many countries, there are enormous wrong notions about the profession and some
of these misconceptions are; a profession for female. School teaching has long been believed and
thought of as a woman’s profession and job because working with children was associated with
child‐care rather than teaching (Skelton 2009). School teaching has been seen as a suitable job for
women who perpetuate the traditional stereotype that women, and not men, are responsible for
young children (Oyler et al. 2001). In addition, people also have the notion that teaching is a
profession for poor people and a profession for those that are not academically good just to mention
but a few.
There are multiple ways to help address the misconceptions about the profession, but with regards
to the page limitation, we shall pinpoint on one paramount ways of addressing the biases about the
profession teaching.
First and foremost, one of the most important ways of addressing the prejudice about the teaching
profession is through public education by expatiating on the positive impact of teaching and also
making people to be aware that the profession is not for only females but rather both gender since
each of the gender has the capability of imparting knowledge. This kind of public education can
be done in a form of organizing seminars or talks, programs on television or radio sets whereby
experts in the field elaborate to the masses the pivotal role of the profession and its contribution to
socio-economic development of many countries. As the saying goes if you can read thank your
teacher, it is very true to say that without this noble profession, there would not be any other
profession since most of the so-called eminent professions got their nurturing through the teaching
profession. Pertinent to this, it is very necessary to frequently organize seminars with the motive
of helping people to understand the impact of this profession and this at the long run will help
transmogrify the wrong notions about the teaching profession. On the whole, public education is
one of the best medium to help eliminate the wrong notions about the teaching profession since
many people have access to electronic gadgets like television, radio etc.
In conclusion, there are many ways to help address the issues of misconception with regards to
teaching profession but due to page restriction, we elaborated on public education as one of the
ways of addressing the wrong notions about teaching.
References
Oyler, C., Jennings, G. T., & Lozada, P. (2001). Silenced gender: The construction of a male
primary educator. Teaching and Teacher Education, 17(3), 367–379.
Skelton, C. (2009). Failing to get men into primary teaching: a feminist critique. Journal of
Education Policy, (24)1, 39-54