Thursday, March 15, 2007

On Being taught by Students

During our KYSD, teachers were substituted by students. They were allowed to teach their schoolmates to their desired subject. On my part, being taught by your fellow classmate is difficult, especially if that certain classmate is not lively and does not have a teaching technique, the technique on how to handle students to make them also alert and to help them avoid boredom. I admit that I don’t want to listen. Instead, I want to sleep or do something more important. I also admit that I was tempted to backbite the student who’s teaching us. We all laughed at that certain person. I just don’t want to tell his or her name. A moment later I realized what we were doing was wrong. I told them to stop it but they continue, and I continue too. I can’t help laughing about their teases. His or her pronunciations, gestures are so annoying.

Our room was very noisy. We weren’t afraid to do the things we are not expected to do. We weren’t afraid to be behind the lessons. We were talking different things. And all of them were not about the topic. We didn’t care what the student in front of us was doing. I felt so cruel. I sometimes pity to that certain student. I then remember myself being a teacher too. I remembered that it’s really painful to talk to the people who were not listening to you. It caused me a great embarrassment. I thought of not going to school the next day. I thought my classmates did ruin my beautiful day. Night after that day I asked the Lord where did I go wrong. Is there something funny about me? I once caught them laugh. What made them laugh? But I just said to myself that maybe they’re enjoying the subject. That decreased my sorrows. And maybe God helped me to recover my sadness.

That time I realized that in doing things such as being a teacher, we must do our best and be determined to do it. We must do it with dedication. I also realized that before having a great performance on teaching we must master our desired subject. We must first finish our studies and be a degree-holder, I mean, we must first be a professional. We must have a course in which we did offer our best to accomplish it. Being a professional must be our goal which we hope to reach. It will help us do something favorable, nice and great. Our sacrifices in achieving our goal must be prized with our achievements and our improvements. Just remember the words “Prayer plus effort is equal to success.” Always remember God on whatever things you do. “Do your best and God will do the rest.” God is very merciful. We all know that. He is always ready to help us, and we must also do our part. Our part is to work hard, sacrifice, and do our best.

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