Do teachers face any challenges?

Pic: Anu

Yup.
And the list is quite long.

We asked a bunch of teachers teaching in higher education — what are some of the challenges you are facing every single day. And here’s what they shared.

As a teacher and teacher developer, the list looks overwhelming.

1. A new teacher. Kinda lost, kinda doubting self.
2. Absenteeism
3. Attachment with students
4. Authorities don’t give a damn; they only care about the students’ marks
5. Classroom Management
6. Common ground
7. Controlling the class
8. Create good learning environment
9. Creating a more student-led learning environment
10. Creating first impression
11. Creating more engaging environment
12. Dealing with attention seeking students
13. Dealing with bully in the classroom
14. Designing class in more innovative manner
15. Engagement
16. Engaging students
17. Engaging students with minimum materials
18. Equal participation of introverted students
19. Every student is different, catering their needs and balancing their learning is challenging.
20. Extra-curricular activities for student’s involvement
21. Fear
22. Focus
23. Grabbing students for a longer time period
24. Grabbing students’ sincere attention
25. Handling a large class.
26. Hard to come up with new ideas for the classes
27. Have to teach same thing 4 times a day, how not to lose stamina and will to teach?
28. Helping students implement what they have learnt
29. How much content to include?
30. How to engage 40 students in a class? What kinds of activities to do?
31. How to make 1st year Bachelor students interested and engaged with Case studies?
32. How to make people understand in simple ways?
33. How to stay relevant/keep-up with latest industry changes
34. In my class, there are mix graders so sometime it’s hard to control them.
35. Increasing student motivation
36. Lack of interest
37. Maintaining a gap between professionalism and building a relationship with students
38. Maintaining students attention in class
39. Major challenge is managing time and planning efficiently between different curriculum frameworks being used by the school.
40. Making class interesting
41. Making them more interested in doing assignments
42. Methodology
43. Minor disciplinary issues
44. Motivating students for concentrating better
45. Motivating the students
46. New techniques
47. Not following up on assignment
48. Nothing as such
49. Participation
50. Plagiarism
51. Pre occupied mind
52. Preparation and planning of content
53. Relate the application of theories, Illustrating the practical approach in Nepalese context and engaging the students in class
54. Short attention span
55. Some students have overwhelming desire to completes task all alone rather than doing it in a team.
56. Sometime it’s hard to have students attention towards me when they are exploring their contents.
57. Student Engagement
58. Student Participation
59. Time limit
60. Parent child bond in learning
61. Technology and students learning
62. Sociological aspects of a learner
63. Am I working harder?
64. Will they be able to answer theories in exam?
65. Confused if they are understanding at all?
66. How to make the sessions funny?
67. How to smile / maintain lighter mood while teaching?
68. How to encourage students to speak up?