How do I feel about teaching?

Welldone!!! You should be proud of himself-I,m for you.

Wonder,from what time I could pass an English exam if you would be an examinator?

I wish you to be successful  in all spheres of your life. Good luck!

Hello Moriza,

I do completely agree with you. Being a teacher is not only about teaching subjects or controlling students in the classroom. Being s teacher is beyond that. I see it more like nurturing a person, englightening one's mind and shaping one's characteristics by showing rights and wrongs. 

I have a 10th grade student who kept chatting away in the lesson and he annoyed his friends, too, especially those who tried to listen to me attentively. I warned him a few times in the classroom. I asked other teachers how he was in their lessons and they said that he talked too much. I did my best to catch his attention during the lesson but it did not work. Two weeks ago, he really pushed my button with his indifference to what I was saying, and distracting his friends. I told him to get out of the classroom and think by himself outside the room so that he would realize his mistake. At the end of the lesson, I had a private talk with him. I made it clear that he was actually a good student and I did not want to lose him. I did not really want to send him away, but he left me no other chance. If he kept behaving that way, I would really get worried... He felt truly sorry for what he did. He repeated three times that he was terribly sorry and he would never disappoint me again. There has been a remarkable improvement in his manners since then. He even surprised me with his mark. He is all silent and ears in my lessons now, attentively listening to me and asking questions. I feel truly happy. I earned him. 

A teacher is someone who touches the children,s hearts forever,remains happy memories and gives good examples for futher life.

You guide them,,teach them,encourage,motivate them to overcome all hardships and difficulties  and in such a way to fulfill their potencial.You have to be a parent,a counselor in all spheres of life,a mentor,a loyal friend,a curriculum manager and consultant,an enhancer,aor,a  faciliator,a specialist in all subjects,a cultural coach,a personal adviser...

I,d like to close with the words by Marla Collins "I,m a teacher.A teacher is someone who leads.There is no magic here.I do not walk on water.I do not part the sea.I just love children."

 Be patient and tolerant! Stay healthy and keep fit!

hey Mess

How about this visit will cost you a startling amount of money that only a full-time employed teacher could afford, otherwise it'll literally cost anyone else an arm ; you just dubbed me a Doctor, so I'll get my arm if need be ;). Stop half-doing it and be a teacher fulltime ;), hehe ... only joking, ok?

Snoopy,

Earning a full time position as a teacher... Hmmm, I want to hear more convincing words. What is your advice, doc? 

Kids have instinctive abilities to absorb foreign languages rather quickly so that'd make your task easier.

This is a very nice blog it kind of reminds me of this film called " Kindergarten Cop" without the dramas ;). This is the kind of Teacher-Students relationship I like to read about, not the ones about the new and anxious teachers who get pelted with paper balls everytime they turn to face the board ;).

Have fun, Mess and keep up the good work, you may earn yourself a full-time  position ;) wouldn't it be great?

Aliazer,

It is very nautral to feel that way. I find nothing wrong with that, but it bothers me to see teenagers get lost in the middle of a love turbulence. They feel like love is everything but there is reality out there and they have to face it sooner or later. It is always the best option to let them live and learn on their own, though. :)

Jo,

Thanks a lot for this fresh flower! It charges me for the day. :)

h e l l ooooooooooooooooo

now I will try ist again

to send some flowers to you

hope, no one will  steel them or they didappear

be happy

and smile, because i do it to you

Hi MESS,

  hh, me too i sometimes come across such incidents during the courses, one day i was moving around the classroom scrutinizing my ss's copybooks and i found one guy wrote in his book "SAMIRA" (name of a girl) with big letters and decoration, i told him, what's that this is not supposed to be here, u might have a girlfriend but don't make such mess in ur materials...then the guy (nearly 21) told me that he's going soon to marry that girl "samira" ..i said what!!!! u're going to get married , u 're still immature for that, he said my family and i have decided and arranged things. then i give him the best wishes, after that whenever he enters in my class he used to look at me with miles of smiles .

  u know i do all the time encounter such incidents ...but i just pass over i already know that this particular age (17,18..21) is the period in which the tow opposite sexe start to experience such feelings.................take care 

Hi Aliazer,

I get your points. People who want to fulfill their duties perfectly think as deeply as you do. I am also the same way as you are. It is not so good, indeed, because it puts so much burden on my shoulders. Sometimes I feel really overwhelmed, but I can handle it. :)

Today I witnessed a very sweet event in my class. Two of my students, 12, are staring at each other flirtatiously. I caught their secret looks. Both of them got blushed, but I pretended as if I did not really get it. It is so cute, but a bit sad, too, because they cannot concentrate fully as they keep looking at each other most of the time. Yet their love is so pure and innocent. It puts a smile on my face to see them just like that. :)

Do you experience such events in the classroom? :)

 Hi MESS, hope u're doing well,

   u know  "the unordinary techniques" u talked about are really what we should depend on so as to keep the atmosphere enjoyable and exciting, the exessive use of traditional methodS in which the teacher is the "giver" and the student is the "taker" can lead to deadly routine. Sometimes i give to my ss puzzels and games to solve or teach them a song and these turned to be very successful and all the ss enjoy the lesson even the laziest ones...But as u know u cannot all the time use such lessons as u have to stick to the proceedures of the curriculum.

  u know effective teaching requires patience and a continuous improvement in education as a whole including recent educational methods and educational psychology, There are ups and downs in my teaching and most of the time i diagnose the prob and know what the solution is, but the challenge remains to what extent the solution would be applicable? in a reality where the opportunities u talked about are absent, the state(country) itself doesn't care of the quality, most of the families don't know how important education is, coz the teacher alone cannot bring a brilliant student out on nothing.

Thanks a lot for ur advices......we gotta have hope otherwise we might lose the love we have for this career.                       take care :) 

Hi Aliazer,

It is not easy to become a teacher and have clever students who do not feel satisfied with the stereotype of teaching. That's why I believe a teacher should be seeking for unordinary teaching skills like sometimes taking the students outside of the classroom and teaching them in the garden or bringing a native speaker to the class, etc. There are creative ways that might help to make the lesson more effective, but in order for making them happen, opportunities should be available. 

Yet I understand your point very well. I would recommend you not to feel bad about your teaching skills. I sense that you are struggling to really teach them well. Whether each one of the students learns or not, it is not your problem. You cannot expect all of them to learn quickly because their brains function differently. Some learn very quickly, but it takes some time for others to comprehend. It does not mean you are not teaching well.

Besides, I am also teaching the basics of tenses these days. Today I have a class with my younger students in the afternoon and I will teach the Quantifiers and Simple Present Tense. Without teaching these, I cannot teach them more, because there are the basics of English. So you are not lagging behind. You are doing the right thing. Feel happy about it. Questioning yourself is good. It makes you become aware of your strong and weak points, but keep it mildly. Or else it will destroy you. 

Hi MESS

   It's obvious that u're making great efforts since u succeeded to catch the attention of both the youngs and the grown ups....i feel that i ve the opposite feeling, u know i find it delicate to teach the adults coz the teaching process is somehow advanced and i always feel obliged to broaden my knowledge in order to provide them with different ideas and views , most of the sessions we talk about social issues which is actually appealing to the adults...On the other hand, the youngs makes me somehow feel as if i am lagging behind as i teach them the basics all the time ...this is just a feeling but i believe that a teacher should do his job and put the needs of the students first. u know the big problem we ve here in morocco is the huge number of students we recieve in one class, more than 35 ss in each class, this create the biggest challenge, u always need 10 minutes of each session to calm them down before u start ur the lesson, another challange is the language i teach, english here is the second foriegn language after french and most of the students find it suffecient to pick up one foriegn lang which is french due to its presence in the moroccan daily life.

that's it take care friend :)

Hi Aliazer,

I have two groups of students: kids at the age of 12-14 and young adult learners at the age of 17-22. It is easier to teach kids, because their receivers are very alert. They keep their eyes peeled on me when I teach a new subject. They can focus easily because their minds are not filled with many ideas or troubles, but adults find it hard to fully focus on the lesson. Also age is another matter. When the teacher and the students are almost at the same age, the atmosphere gets a bit tense and teaching and learning proceed a bit weirdly. I have been feeling it since the begining. I feel way much more comfortable with kids. They are so lovely, cute, and innocent. They take me as a role model, so whatever I speak and do guides them. It is a bit different with my adult students, though. At first, I intended to crack some jokes to lighten the mood in the class, because when you overload students with many things at one time, it is not effective. They did not join me with my jokes at first but then I changed my policy. I started to talk to them informally as if I were their friend. They socialized with me bit by bit. As I shared my experiences with them and some funny events, they opened up more. Now they are just great! Yet some of them are not inclined to learn, I sense it. I teach them effectively, I believe that, and I can guide and inspire them, but I cannot control their lives. However, it is truly awesome to notice that they have had some remarkable improvement since I started to teach them, and it makes me feel very proud. :)

I am curious to hear more about your teaching experiences. :)

well, first of all i feel that u're very lucky for having such students, u know i teach ss aged 17 to 20.this is my first year in teaching, and i come to realize that this career is not an easy one... these pupils at this particular age are very hard to control and to please even if u succeed to give them the joy of learning, soon things get back to their normal state (boredom, laziness) i ve always managed to make things better but the unreadiness of many students breaks my efforts and expectations, the problem is that there are only few smart students in each class who really want to learn and make a difference but the majority are just wasting their times there...in spite of this, i struggled to sensitize them and make them aware of the importance of education and whenever i i give them such speech they become all ears......anyway, i believe that things can get better i just need some patience and hardwork.....thanks for sharing ur experience

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