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The American society has seen a gradual transition in past years. Previously there was communal involvement to bringing up of children and women were left at home to rear the children. Today's economic pressures requires cases where both parents are working, resulting to less childcare. School life greatly influences the child growth and social activities and teachers are therefore more involved in bringing up the children (Sadker, Sadker & Zittleman, 2008). Changing family lives are negatively impacting school life and teachers have a major role to play in ameliorating the situation.

The situation results to various negative impacts. First, there has been a dramatic change in the social and economic factors in the family unit and these have extended to affect school life. In the past communities communally took the responsibility of raising children but this has changed due to changing work patterns, less childcare facilities and economic factors (Sadker, Sadker & Zittleman, 2008). In the previous times, the social fabric was strong and communities approached issues communally. Today in the face of rising economic pressures, poverty, changing work patterns where a substantial proportion of children are raised by single parents or both parents go to work supervision of the child is waning. This has in great part contributed to challenges of drop outs, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, pregnancy and weight concerns.

To reduce the impacts of changing family lives to education; teachers need to create favorable classroom environments. It is only through creating a favorable environment where bias and hatred are replaced with trust, self-worth, positive relationship and informed sexuality that the situation can be improved (Abbot, 2006). Students will perform dismally in environments where negative effects are rife. These effects are damaging as they affect the psychological aspects of the student and will more often than not result to drop outs or low performances. In the classroom setting, developing curriculums need to recognize changing family life. The curriculum needs to emphasize community involvement, health issues. By student involvement in social services, reduce tracking and focusing affective developments of students, teachers can reduce the negative impacts.

教师喜欢教学吗？——Do Teachers Like Teaching?

Teaching is one of the careers that employ the largest number of people. Despite this, there have been suggestions that teachers may not be very happy in their career especially due to the relatively low pay as compared to other professions and the bureaucratic system. This might be supported by the high turn-over in this career. Some teachers have however reported that they actually do love their career mainly due to its intrinsic rewards. This essay argues that despite the high turnovers in teaching, most teachers like to teach. Understanding whether teachers like teaching has several implications. First, it would allow an understating of teacher's behaviors and perceptions this providing an explanation for their conduct. Second, an understanding would provide a framework in devising ways of influencing their behavior and conduct. It would for example explain why there are high turnover in the profession.

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