Teachers Mutual Bank reveals the secret life of teachers Talk to us Phone us Email us Breadcrumbs Teachers Mutual Bank About us Member news 2021 Teachers Mutual Bank reveals the secret life of teachers 29 October 2021 29 October 2021 Today on World Teachers’ Day the mutual bank built exclusively for teachers is celebrating the lesser-known facts of what it means to be a teacher. From secretly buying textbooks for struggling students, to stifling the urge to laugh at class clowns – these are just some of the warm insights revealed by members of Teachers Mutual Bank. In a campaign launched earlier this month with the Public Education Foundation, Teachers Mutual Bank invited teachers to reveal their deepest secrets working in the world’s noblest profession. The Secret Life of Teachers campaign has aimed to show the human side of what it takes to be a teacher, particularly during the challenges of the past 12 months. Chief Executive Officer, Steve James, said: “Australian teachers have gone above and beyond to educate our children during the COVID-19 pandemic. In what felt like a blink of an eye, they have performed virtual acrobatics to vastly change the way they teach our children – masking troubling times with a reassuring smile. “This campaign was our way of shining the spotlight on them, asking them to share their ‘secrets’ to being so consistently impressive despite the challenges that have come their way. Their ‘secrets’ have been a great insight into the human side to teaching,” Steve said. Just one of many selfless secrets shared so far came from Jack in Sydney: “I once came straight from a sleepless night in the hospital with my sick child to go to my last lesson with my Year 12 class before the HSC. I dropped my daughter off with her grandparents on the way to school and made it just in time for roll call. I had a power nap in the storeroom at lunchtime.” On the lighter side, Jo from NSW confessed that she struggles to stifle her own laughter at the funny and innocently inappropriate things her students can sometimes say in the middle of class. While Jess, also from NSW confessed to secretly doing cross-stitch while she waited on Zoom for her students to log in for roll call. To take a glimpse of the secret life of teachers, visit the Teachers Mutual Bank Facebook page.
