presentation presented by my mentor, Sir Liaqat Nadeem, HOD, Lahore Garrison University, DHA, Lahore

1. WHY DID I CHOOSE TEACHING PROFESSION?
PRSENTER’S NAME: LIAQUAT ALI NADEEM

2. Contents:
a) What is teaching profession
b) Top Ten Reasons why teaching can be a
great profession
c) What are the opinion of great thinkers
about teaching and teachers
d) Why did I choose it?

3. Teaching Profession?
It is dissected as:
a) The facilitation of student learning
b) Imparting knowledge or skill
c) It is an intended behaviour to introduce learning
d) It is said that teacher is an artist and teaching is an art.

4.  According to G. Wells (1998) it is a
cluster of activities that are noted
about teacher such as explaining,
deducing, questioning ,motivating,
taking attendance, keeping record of
works, students’ progress and students’
background information.

5. Personal qualities of a teacher

6. Types of Teachers

7. Top ten reasons why teaching can
be a great profession
1. Student potential
Unfortunately, not every student will succeed in your
class. However, this fact should not stop a teacher from
believing that every student has the potential for
success. This potential is so existing that each new year
presents new challenges and new potential successes.

8. 2. Student success and teacher’s exhilaration
It can be a means of great exhilaration when a student who did
not understand a concept and then he learned it through your
help.
3. Teaching helps you learn a subject
You will never learn a topic better than when you start teaching
it.
4. Daily humour
If you have positive attitude and a sense of humour, you will find
things to laugh about each day. So find the fun in your class and
enjoy your profession.
5. Affecting the future
When you are teaching in a class, you, in fact, are also exercising
your own influences upon your students who are our future.
6. Staying younger
Being around young people everyday will help you remain
knowledgeable about current trends, fashions and ideas.

9. 7. Autonomy in the class
Once a teacher closes the door of his classroom and
begins teaching, he really is one who decides what is
going to happen in the classroom. Not many jobs
provide an individual with so much room to be
creative and autonomous each day
8. Conducive to family life
If you are married and have children, academic
calendar will typically allow you to have the same
days off as your kids.
9. Job security
In many communities teachers are scarce
commodity. It is fairly certain that you will be able to
find a job as a teacher if you have proven yourself a
successful teacher.

10. 10. Summer off
It is the only profession where you have
summer vacation, winter holidays, and
weekends which can really be a huge
benefit and provide much needed rest time

11. Opinions of great thinkers
 Aristotle: those who know , do . Those who
understand, teach.
 Phil Collins
in learning you will teach and in teaching
you will learn.

12. William Arthur Ward
The mediocre teacher tells , the good teacher explain the
superior teacher demonstrate, the great teacher inspires.
Nikos Kazantzakis
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges
over which they invite their student s to cross, then having
facilitated their crossing joy fully collapse, encouraging
them to create their own.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost
tradition.
William Glasser
When you study great teachers, you will learn much more
from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils , I only attempt to provide the
conditions in which they can learn.

14. Why did I choose teaching profession?
 The Holy Prophet says that he has been sent in this world as a teacher. It
means that it is a profession of prophets.
 My role models are my teachers. I can never forget them. They
motivated and inspired me to be a teacher. Though my parents want to
make me a doctor and I did F.sc pre medical yet eventually they give
me permission to choose teaching profession.
 It is not only teaching rather preaching and the teacher leaves indelible
prints on the heart and mind of students. So if a teacher is sincere with his
profession he can give “ true and sincere men” to his nation.

15.  It has been noted that a student pays a lot of attention
to his teacher. He is all ears to his teachers. So if you
have something good with your self you can impart it to
your students.
 it is a duty which gives us a chance to earn “Halal”.
 It is a suitable profession for a thorough gentle and
educated person.
 It is also a profession which gives us an opportunity for
ventilation of emotions and feelings . A teacher in the
class has a chance to share all his views and feelings
with his students about any topic .

16.  I choose this profession because it can become a bridge
between you and society and as a teacher a person can
enhance his social contacts.
 A teacher deals with the psyche of hundreds of students
belonging to different bent of mind, different culture, classes
and family background. Though it does not appear that a
teacher is a sharp person yet it is a fact that his maximum
contact with a student makes him a person of deep,
profound and very broad vision. In the case of other
profession like Army, police, csp, etc. people are expert in
certain or limited areas but not in social issues. Teaching
profession enables a man to tackle every situation.

17. It can also be counted as
“Sadqa-i-Jaria”. It means that when a
teacher dies, his knowledge imparted to
his pupils would be spiritually benefited
to him when his pupils are transferring
or imparting this knowledge to other.

19. A teacher can bring a great revolution
in the minds and hearts of people by
exercising his sublime thought upon
them. He can reform, improve and
refine their personality and thoughts.

20. A teacher’s role in making or
marring a nation is of great
importance. A teacher can lift the
glory of a nation or he can
demolish or destroy the edifice of a
nation. The example of the former
East Pakistan which is now
Bangladesh is before us where
Hindu teachers played a key role
in poisoning the hearts and minds
of the people of East Pakistan.