My self-image as teacher

As my time grow closer to being a teacher, it is best for me to picture myself as teacher and what my perception of being a teacher is. For me, teacher is like a spoon, a useful tool to help us eat. Spoon helps people to pick or grab foods in order for them to eat. It is the same with teacher’s role in class where I need to help students get the information because teacher is a facilitator and not the source of information. How much students able to absorb the knowledge depends on themselves as they are the one who decide how many information that they can digest at a time. Same situation would happen to a spoon where the person who used the spoon would be the one who decide the amount of food he or she would want to eat at that time. Spoon is just the tool to scoop the food and not the decision maker of the amount of food that the person is going to take. Moreover, when a person do not want to use the spoon anymore he or she can use his or her own hands to scoop the food and if he or she thinks that the spoon is not good enough, he or she can change the spoon and use a better spoon that can fill his or her needs. Teacher would also be in the same situation as spoon because the aim of teaching the students would be to help students to learn to be independent in learning and when they can depend on themselves in learning would the day of celebration for a teacher. Moreover, if the students think that a teacher is not good enough, they could try to search for other teacher that can teach more useful and important knowledge. That is why teachers need to fill themselves with every possible knowledge in order for teachers to be useful and beneficial for students.