From Chalkboards to Checklists: The Realities of Juggling Education and Ancillary Tasks

The study examines teachers’ experiences with ancillary obligations and how these obligations affect their professional and personal lives. Handling these ancillary tasks requires strong time management, organization, and communication skills. This study implores phenomenology as its design to identify the supplementary jobs of teachers, investigate their experiences, understand how they cope with the problems they encounter in performing their tasks, and assess the abilities and attitudes they develop. The study results suggest a need for support networks for teachers for their instructions, professional development opportunities, and balancing work and life tasks. Furthermore, it argues for recognizing the sacrifices of teachers and supporting them to improve their well-being, retention and educational quality.