Today, I had a challenging and interesting experience at school. Guess what? It was being a teacher! I, ‘Miss Leung’, was teaching English for two periods! Do you want to know more about my teaching experience?
After the first recess, Miss Lau who is the original teacher walked into the classroom and I followed her with shaking feet. As Miss Lau was introducing me by saying, ‘From now on till the end of the lesson, all of us, including me, have to call Rachel “Miss Leung”!’, every of my classmates was shocked. Some of my friends were opening their months wide while some of them were goggling at me. I was super embarrassed at that time!
Finally, the lesson started. I distributed worksheets to the class. I was teaching them phonetics and word stress today because many of my ‘students’ found it difficult to studying this topic. So I searched information in the Internet and designed some exercises in order to let my classmates have more practice. After I had explained the rules of phonetics and word stress to them, I asked them to try to finish the worksheet. However, to my surprise, they found the worksheet hard to do due to my unclear teaching! I suddenly did not know what to do when everyone was looking at me for solutions and answers.
Luckily, Miss Lau kindly did me a favour. She went to the front of the classroom and clearly explained the content once again to the class. I thanked her so much! But unfortunately, when the bell of the second recess rang, I still had not finished all the content that I had prepared. The lesson ended in rounds of applause and it was a great experience to me.
I successfully got a taste of teacher life. Indeed, being a teacher is exhausting, both preparing for the lesson and teaching in class. Before we complain about the piles of homework that the teachers assign to us, we have to first think that: our teachers have to correct even more piles of homework of many classes. So, not to grumble but to finish with the best quality of homework!