Excessive workload including, lesson planning, grading, assessments, conducting activities, student engagement, technology skills, managing paperwork, meeting deadlines adds to a teacher's daily work routine & sometimes without any support.
Lack of Resources
Lack of resources is a huge challenge for each teacher, poor quality educational materials & logistics, shortage or poor quality technology equipment, lack of funds, unavailability of training/learning opportunities, are just few in the list.
Classroom Management
Classroom management is another daunting task in the list of teaching challenges. For example, dealing with student behaviors, small size classrooms, poor quality furniture, managing learning difficulties are vital issues in daily teaching practices.
Writing Engaging Lesson Plans
Writing engaging lesson plans is usually quite frustrating, because it becomes complex for those who are either novice teachers or have no knowledge about pedagogy.
Reaching to Different Learning Styles
Each learner comes in with his/her unique abilities, learning styles, learning needs and behaviors. Therefore, all these add up to a challenge to plan, prepare and teach to address these needs.
Parental Involvement
Parents being a useful resource available as educational stakeholders, but unfortunately parents either remain as non-participative or kept outside the educational process by school administration. Hence, teachers lack the need for connecting with their student's parents at all times.
Time Management
Time is one of the most precious entity for everyone. However, managing time for a teacher is another huge problem due to bundle of responsibilities to fulfill everyday.
Lack of Pedagogical Knowledge
This is especially an issue with novice teachers. Without appropriate pedagogical knowledge teachers are unable to plan lessons, design & choose relevant activities, create assessments in the form of quizzes or tests.
Lack of Training Opportunities
Lack of training opportunities is a widespread problem in education industry. Hence, teachers remain poorly trained to plan, prepare & deliver quality education to their learners.
Subject Specific Teaching
Subject specific teaching is another challenge for teachers, because each subject requirements are different. Science cannot be taught with language teaching method, similarly mathematics cannot be taught with social studies approach.