LEARNING IS ENGAGING

LEARNING IS ENGAGING,

(Youngsters learn better when they are exposed and when teachers are patient enough to teach them well, explaining and instructing them where they’ve gone wrong and showing them how they to achieve-Leading them to Success)

I have been teaching for merely five years now. As the days go by I’ve always been fascinated on how great a feeling could be whenever I am with my students. Seeing them like vending machines for money but trophies worth rewarding.

I have once been a student. I have tasted the sweetness and bitterness of being one. I’ve once been the apple of the eye and once been the taboo for some. Whatever my experiences were, I shall share the best and improve the others which weren’t sweet and glorious.

Allow me to share a part of my Primary years. I was six and half years old, I was once a ‘cutie in school. Almost everybody likes someone white-skinned and long haired like me, especially when you grow up in a far-away rural area of an island. However, this particular teacher did not like me much as most do. There was one time when she had Math lesson with us. It was my turn to count on the “abacus” and I needed to count at least up to one hundred. Just as I reached the ‘seventies’ (70’s), I counted-pronouncing the words like “sevente-five”. I didn’t know really what has gone wrong with me but that was what I’ve frequently heard from my ‘peers and playmates.

Out of anger, my teacher punished me and asked me to count over and over again. When all my classmates went home for lunch, I stayed for several more hours counting and counting. I was puzzled as to what’s wrong with my counting. I was taught how to count and I knew well I didn’t have a mistake nor had I not counted wrongly. All knew was I was frustrated to go home, I didn’t have anyone with me to walk home anymore and I lived about three to four kilometers from school. I was even more worried knowing that I may be late to come back to school after lunch.

Until recently, when I reached high school and became more exposed to diverse and open –learning environments then I realized; that was about ‘pronunciation’ that is what it was all about. I experienced that kind of cruelty just because of my pronunciation. And I believe that was unjust and improper from a teacher.

I did not want to keep recounting that experience, especially the teacher but I need to accept fact that I have been struggling to forget it. This kind of memory is a nightmare of my primary years something I wanted to bury but it stays within me. After several more years, I’ve had an encounter with that teacher again. This time, she was amazed as what I have become. I am now a person who can speak my mind and point of views. I now have the ability to tell whether I could agree and express my feelings and thoughts just how my environment gives to me.

I am no longer that helpless child, who could not ask questions and don’t receive answers as to why I am punished that way. I now could ask questions and get right answers. What’s more is that, I have wider understanding and refined professionalisms than that of my previous teacher. I am now a teacher by profession and I vow not to do the same with my students for any reason. I shall become more accommodating, understanding, helpful and loving to all of them. I have learned and proved myself that ‘LEARNING IS ENGAGING’.

Youngsters learn better when they are exposed and when teachers are patient enough to teach them well, explaining and instructing them where they’ve gone wrong and showing them how they to achieve-Leading them to Success.

This story is for teachers and aspiring teachers out there. God bless us all!

My Teaching Philosophy

My TEACHING Philosophy

My philosophy of teaching covers five articles with ten sections. Each article serves as an umbrella term for the whole principle. Each article has underlying sections which specifically states the following things about the article and gives primary and accurate reasons and explanations in support of the said article. Article one, states that: The teacher as the role model to her students. Section 0ne: The teacher should teach my students only the best. The teacher as the sole producer of knowledge should act as an editor at the same time. The teacher should carefully process the things that comes in and out of the classroom in this regard, students are believe to be intelligent in their own ways that’s why the teacher should respect this but should be able to detect the mistake in each student and immediately correct whenever possible. Section two states that the teacher should teach the students only the proper. Therefore the teacher is capable of eliminating the mistake and should give the correct. Section three states that the teacher should behave, act and decide properly, according to this article the teacher’s title should be matured enough to handle small and big problems encountered inside the classrooms. The teacher should not cry over little matters instead should be the one to settle conflicts and misunderstanding between the students. Article two states that: The teacher as the explainer of the lesson. The teacher should be a capable one who can teach the lesson with easiness. Therefore the section one of this article states that, the teacher should be a license teacher, someone who is qualified enough to teach and handle students. Article three suggests that a teacher should involve herself with her students in their lessons. Section one of these articles says that the teacher should mingle with her students in this way the teacher will get nearer with her students. Section two of this article suggests that a teacher should be approachable enough so that learning will flow smoothly. Article four says that a teacher should be an enabler, someone who’s capable enough of moulding and shaping her students. Section two states that a teacher should be able to control tha students and the whole classroom. Article five suggests that a teacher should be a qualified manager, section one of this section says that a teacher should be able to manage her class. Section two states that a teacher as a manager should be someone who manages not only the intellectual skills of students but someone capable of managing the atmosphere inside and outside of the school.

As a teacher I have the power to control the future in a manner most basic but difficult. The students, the young generations as the hopes of our world, as a teacher I have the capability and I am someone who is authorized to teach them therefore in my hands lie the freedom and the wonderful future of the next generation.

Teacher Riza