Reflections on teachers and teaching

When I was a little kid, I used to daydream about my ambition in life. I picture out myself teaching my students about math. Teaching was my favorite profession way, way back in the past. But I guess it needs a lot of hard work just to teach your students about the lesson.

In our school, during the last week of January or first week of February, our school had a “Know Your School Day” or basically known as the KYSD. KYSD is the week wherein you experienced to be one of the faculty members or the staffs of the school. You were given a chance to indulge your most wanted position. You can be a teacher, a clerk, a guidance councilor or the greatest position that every student ever dreamed of, being the principal. But of course, being the principal could apply more pressure. Some students didn’t try at least one position because they say it could be tiring and could be stressful.

Teaching can be tiring and I admire all the teachers for teaching their students patiently. Teaching really needs patience, understanding, and perseverance to teach your students. I know that teaching needs a lot of hard work but I didn’t expect it to be really stressful. You should plan what you should do so that your students would have fun while they learn about the lesson you are teaching. You should be creative enough to teach those lessons, which adds to the tension and pressure you are experiencing. Teaching is also hard because even if you receive big amount of money as your salary, if your students can’t understand the lesson, all your hard work will be put to waste.

I also learned about the feeling where in your students don’t want to listen to you. It really, really makes me feel bad. But I know it was not my fault that they won’t listen to me. In my English class, some of my classmates have a lot of difficulties in understanding the lesson. I don’t know if I should blame myself that they have low grades in the quizzes. But somehow, a lot of them got high scores, which made me happy because I feel that all my hard work I put on it got rewarded.

At first, I really can’t imagine myself standing in front of my classmates to teach them the subject where I substitute my teacher in. But you know what, even if it was very stressful, it was so much fun. I can tell because I applied for a teaching position. I really have fun because I didn’t expect my classmates to treat me as a teacher and not a student like them. In my Alma matter, they treat their student teachers as students. I didn’t say that they don’t respect them but my point is, they shouldn’t treat them as students who were just hanging around in the room but as the person in authority. When you teach, always put it in your hearts that there is nothing bad in teaching. In fact, we can’t have doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. if there are no teachers around.