Teaching Jobs & Career in
Pakistan
How to Start a
career in Teaching in Pakistan
Teachers are architects of a country's destiny.
The future of new generations grows in the hands of a
teacher. The teacher enjoys a divining status in almost every
religion. The profession of teaching, therefore, deserves the
highest level of respect.
Countries like
Pakistan badly need
skillful and qualified teachers to increase the rate of literacy.
Teachers have a very important
role in Basic education and training to fulfill the
growing needs of trained and skilled Labour force in every walk of
life. In the childhood, parents are responsible to
child training but further on, it is the teachers who teach
them to enter into practical life. There the role of teacher comes.
Thus, Teachers are definitely the most important people to
persuade our lives after our parents. We learn to see the world, we gain
the ability to understand that world and we obtain the ability to use
our intelligence, imagination and talent, all these are possible because
of our teachers.
With the passage of time, the teaching professions
in Pakistan
change its trend and importance. Today one has got tremendous
opportunities if one chooses teaching as a career. Almost all
the Governments of the world have to allocate more funds as it is now
become a reality that the world of tomorrow will belong to those who has
the wealth of education. This concept becomes the major reason of
establishing numerous education institutions in the world. As long as
educational institutions, universities, colleges and schools are
establishing, the importance of the teachers will further be increased.
Teaching
Opportunities in Pakistan
There are ample jobs opportunities for teachers in
Pakistan.
Constant promotion of education, growing interest of the governments and
the establishments of private and public schools, colleges and
universities have further enhanced opportunities in this field. Today
one can adopt the field of teaching as a school teacher or a lecturer or
professor in the colleges or universities. Teachers are offered very
good salaries and allowances in the private sector institutions. Even
in the schools and colleges of Pakistan Armed Forces, experienced and
qualified teachers are offered matchless opportunities in terms of
salaries and remunerations.
Educational foundations have been set up in all the
provinces to encourage and provide financial support to educated
individual for setting up schools. Many new schools are established
every year. Trained and qualified teachers will always be on demand in
the coming days. Even a master degree holder in Pakistan Studies has
attractive job opportunities for lecturers in colleges and
universities. Keeping in view of the future, there will be great
demand of teachers who are sincere, hardworking, and interested in this
career option.
Working environment
for teachers
Teaching is not a part-time career job; teachers should
always be ready and prepared for hardwork and betterment of the
students. They should prepare and plan their lesson which is to be
taught prior to their arrival to the class room.
Teaching
profession
is very suitable for those people who like social life. Teachers are
respected and famous in the society especially in villages and small
towns. Teachers have pupils in every walk of life who cause solution of
their different problems. Teachers are provided leave for two months
twice in a year in the summer and the winter season to be active and
fresh.
Teaching Related
professions and occupations
After having completing different courses in teaching,
teachers become eligible for direct appointment as school headmaster,
instructor, supervisor, education officer, assistant director, deputy
director, and so on. Teachers are given priority in job opportunities
in the education department.
Teachers Remuneration
and salaries
In the public sector, teachers who have qualified PTC
(Primary Teaching Certificate) are employed as teacher in BPS-7 in
government schools, while those who have CT (Certificate of Teaching)
are offered JST (Junior
School
Teachers)
Job in BPS-9. B.Ed passed teachers is inducted as HST (Higher
School
Teachers)
in BPS-15. Headmasters and Subject Specialist teachers are offered jobs
in grade 17 (BPS-17) in comprehensive schools. Additional allowances
are also presented to them. Teachers who are employed as Eastern
Education teachers, drawing teachers and physical training instructor
offered grades 9 and 15 as per their qualification and training.
Master degree holders have opportunities to get the job of a lecturer
in the colleges and universities in BPS-17.
Excellent opportunities are available in the private sector
institutions, schools, colleges and universities. Even a person who has
command over English teaching can run a successful language center and
as per my research one can earn in the range of Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 50,000
per month.
Profession of Teaching… From an HR consultant’s point of view:
Rahela Narijo, a leading HR consultant and Trainer speaks
about the Profession of Teaching.
"I really wish people would stop looking at teaching as a
way out or as a last resort. Just being good in a particular field or
having a masters or Ph.D degree does not automatically qualify you to be
a teacher. Not everyone can become a teacher because not everyone
possesses the competencies or aptitude for teaching.
First ask yourself why you are considering teaching as a
profession. If the reason is anything other than “to make a positive
impact on young, developing minds and to groom a future generation,”
then do everything a favour and stay away from teaching. Teaching has
never been about monetary gains. If you want to make money, then stay
in your current job. Teaching itself is science. To
become a qualified teacher you need a certain degree of training in this
science. But it is also a passion; teaching is often referred to as a
noble profession.
So, before deciding on pursuing teaching, carefully
identify your true motivation for doing so because too much damage has
already been done to this profession by those before you. Is teaching
an option because you can’t “do” your current job or is it a passion
because you want to make a positive impact on the lives of others? Or as
the actor Jack Black says in one of my favorite movies, the
School of
Rock,
“those who can’t do, teach and those who can’t teach … teach gym.”
You decide which category you fall in.
Which degree or
Certificate is required to become a teacher in Pakistan?
Teaching
Courses and degree programmes
B.Ed
M.Ed
M.A (Education)
Entry Requirements
For B.Ed: B.A (Pass)
For M.Ed: B.Ed
For M.A (Education): B.A (pass) with
education
Teachers' Resource
Centre (TRC)
Teachers' Resource Centre (TRC) is a not-for-profit
organization working towards the improvement of school education in
Pakistan since
1986. TRC is developing interactive and digital learning material for
Classes 6-8 in Mathematics, science and English.
More career option in teaching...
Improve your English language
skills; start teaching English, a respectable career option as English
Language Trainer.
