Today was really fabulous! During school, I swapped my role with my English teacher Ms Ng and taught my own class English for a double period.
At first, I freaked out a bit because every classmate was staring at me, waiting for my next move. I calmed myself down and started distributing handouts about reported speech. When I wanted to use the visualizer, I could not figure out how to control it. But the two IT perfects just kept sitting, chatting with their neighbours and paying no attention. Slightly annoyed, I asked them politely if they could lend me a hand, just like how Ms Ng said to them nearly every day.
After they had set up the visualizer, I began teaching and tried to interact with my classmates more often to keep their attention. Most of them answered perfectly, but some of them answered with a few errors. I gave them my encouraging smile and they could always get the right answer.
Then, one of the most talkative classmates suddenly asked me a very difficult and debatable question. “Oh no!” I thought at that time, “how am I supposed to tell him? I don’t know?” At that instant, an idea popped up in my mind. “Class,” I said to my classmates, “why don’t we discuss this question together?” After an ‘intense’ discussion and much argument, we all came up with a solution. Three heads are better than one! The rest of the lesson went smoothly. After dismissing the class, Ms Ng even gave me a “thumbs up” sign! I felt really proud of myself.
I never realized that being a teacher is so hard and challenging. You have to use lots of teaching techniques, and be able to handle all kinds of strange unexpected incidents. As a student, I always think that teachers are bossy and annoying because they keep mentioning discipline, discipline and discipline. Now I know how demanding the teaching job can be. Teachers must be very devoted to and passionate about their jobs. Or else they won’t even bother to care about us. They will just lie back on their chairs, watching us messing around, not paying attention and finally getting poor results. I am regretting our class’ misbehaviour now. Therefore, always think from the point of view of your teachers first, and you can save them a lot of trouble.