Students
The fun part of teaching is that no matter how many times you shout at your students, as long as you still show respect and care for them, they will stay with you... Unlike that someone whom I shouted only once in my life left me for blah blah blah blah.. What was that again? Okay, about my students...
Some of them (especially my advisory class) already have an idea that I'm about to step out of the career. At first, it was touching to find my advisory class keeps on sending me letters and messages telling me not to go, that they will miss me, that they will never have another "father" there. But I told them this, "Amen, I say to you..."
Just kidding. This is the real dialogue, "You will move on and become children of other advisers, but in my case, you will forever be my ONLY children in this school."
Some of them already wept. Some of them claimed that they will not study these anymore if I wouldn't be around (not sure if they are certain they will do this, but the proclamation seems touching). Some of them even dreamed of me already having a new but ODD job.
But they are my advisory class--well-known for their (great) lack of sense of responsibility. I told them to do me favors before I leave, that they do their tasks well and perform good at school but they only improved approximately ten percent better.
There's this student who talked to me last week. He was not from my advisory class. But he opened his problem about not going to school next year. The choice was either he go to a public school or he stops schooling because of some problem.
The case was pretty much similar to mine before I entered Junior highschool.
Clyde (not his real name), the student I'm talking about, sought for an advise and I told him that if he were to be enrolled in a public school, it's better than to stop. He is such a smart boy and I don't want him to stop studying. I told him the consequences and the essence of graduating.
After that, he became close to me. He's a very nice boy and very smart, talented even. He started talking to me more. Then, he found out somewhere that I would be quitting being an educator. The nice part is that he didn't want me to quit, and he said something that echoed all that day from other students as well. There were students who told me that I'm "the only one who understands them".
I don't want to question other teachers for this. Maybe the students just found me being opened minded a bridge to wipe out the gap between teachers and students. Of course, they know when to pay respect to me. But I also go down the throne to get to know them more.
We don't teach to show off we know something that they should know, but we teach to let them feel that they can be how we are. And by being able to understand their situation will really pull them closer to you as a teacher.
But, sad to say, I can't stay. I'm looking forward for something more. But I can't deny the fact that the STUDENTS ARE THE BEST PART OF BEING A TEACHER, no matter how terrible their behavior is.
They keep our job from being static, from being boring, from being stagnant. This is my hobby ever since I was young; to get to know different walks of life. And by being a teacher, we don't just know them, we walk with them.
Some of them (especially my advisory class) already have an idea that I'm about to step out of the career. At first, it was touching to find my advisory class keeps on sending me letters and messages telling me not to go, that they will miss me, that they will never have another "father" there. But I told them this, "Amen, I say to you..."
Just kidding. This is the real dialogue, "You will move on and become children of other advisers, but in my case, you will forever be my ONLY children in this school."
Some of them already wept. Some of them claimed that they will not study these anymore if I wouldn't be around (not sure if they are certain they will do this, but the proclamation seems touching). Some of them even dreamed of me already having a new but ODD job.
But they are my advisory class--well-known for their (great) lack of sense of responsibility. I told them to do me favors before I leave, that they do their tasks well and perform good at school but they only improved approximately ten percent better.
There's this student who talked to me last week. He was not from my advisory class. But he opened his problem about not going to school next year. The choice was either he go to a public school or he stops schooling because of some problem.
The case was pretty much similar to mine before I entered Junior highschool.
Clyde (not his real name), the student I'm talking about, sought for an advise and I told him that if he were to be enrolled in a public school, it's better than to stop. He is such a smart boy and I don't want him to stop studying. I told him the consequences and the essence of graduating.
After that, he became close to me. He's a very nice boy and very smart, talented even. He started talking to me more. Then, he found out somewhere that I would be quitting being an educator. The nice part is that he didn't want me to quit, and he said something that echoed all that day from other students as well. There were students who told me that I'm "the only one who understands them".
I don't want to question other teachers for this. Maybe the students just found me being opened minded a bridge to wipe out the gap between teachers and students. Of course, they know when to pay respect to me. But I also go down the throne to get to know them more.
We don't teach to show off we know something that they should know, but we teach to let them feel that they can be how we are. And by being able to understand their situation will really pull them closer to you as a teacher.
But, sad to say, I can't stay. I'm looking forward for something more. But I can't deny the fact that the STUDENTS ARE THE BEST PART OF BEING A TEACHER, no matter how terrible their behavior is.
They keep our job from being static, from being boring, from being stagnant. This is my hobby ever since I was young; to get to know different walks of life. And by being a teacher, we don't just know them, we walk with them.
