12 Lessons I’ve learned from Teaching
In my four years of teaching, I’ve learned a lot of things from work, from my fellow teachers, and from my students. These are just twelve of them:
- A teacher’s life is not so different from a student’s. You still have a lot of homework, reading assignments, and plenty of oral presentations.
- If you’re already a teacher, the major differences between being a teacher and being a student are: (a) instead of just answering, you also check the exam, (b) instead of answering to just your own parents, you now answer to more parents, and (c) you’re allowance also gets deducted when you’re late for class.
- You can never be really (100%) prepared for a batch of students no matter how much you think you know them from the previous years. Children’s behaviors and attitudes change as quickly as they grow. They can be really sweet and charming the previous year, and then be astonishingly pesky and irritating the following year.
- No matter how tolerant you are, your patience has a limit. And it can be surprisingly short sometimes! (more…)