Teaching as an option

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: A teacher famous as a spoken word poet, Taylor Mali, in his poem ‘What Teachers Make’ says that teaching is not about the money rather the impact that it creates on students. As a teacher, “I make a…difference,” says Mali.



When choosing to work as a kindergarten teacher, one should keep in mind the fact that kindergarten teachers are the first people to familiarize children to a systematic learning environment at the early ages of the children. Though teachers in preschool and kindergarten don’t necessarily require a graduate degree, they are required to take some teacher training programs. [break]







When it comes to primary and secondary school teaching, teachers are responsible for teaching major subjects such as Nepali, English, Math, Social Studies, Science and Health & Population. The preparations of lesson and assignment plans are also done by teachers.



Educational requirement for teachers of primary and secondary levels is at least a four year graduate degree. Personality traits of a good teacher include good communication skills, the virtue of not being bias, having a sincere caring attitude, a strong sense of responsibility, authority, discipline and patients.

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