TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience



Teaching Experience

In this paper, I have to discuss my experience of teaching, and also, I have to describe what I thought of teaching before experiencing it in real. I also have to compare the thoughts before teaching with the experience I gained after teaching.

Earlier, I thought that teaching is the most difficult job one could ever play. It is the most responsible job since a teacher is accountable for the future of students. I never thought to opt this profession as I did not considered myself that much responsible to teach students. I thought that describing something to students in a way that it is correctly communicated is a difficult job. I thought if a student is not that much intelligent, how I would make him clear with what I want him to learn. However, after experiencing this, I can say that it is the most exciting job, and when you convey your message clearly, that is the most exciting moment for a teacher. I taught english, which is not usually considered a difficult subject but teaching english to ESL students is really a tiring job. While teaching, I found that my students possess different amounts of intelligence and thus their answers were diverse, ranging from abstract and profound ones to obvious ones too. Such varied answers made me realize their disparate interpretations that enabled me to pay more attention to others in conversations (realizing the validity of other's statements if looked from a different perspective). Even in my studies, I started looking from various angles at any problem that confronted me, in the hope of finding clues to its solution.   

I spent three weeks in a secondary school, observing, planning and teaching lessons, marking work, talking with teachers and working with small groups of pupils. This has given me a valuable insight into a number of important issues related to teaching. I feel that what we teach in english should be of some use to all pupils. Einstein said “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty”. An english lesson should be equipping the pupils with correct grammar, proper usage of tenses and comprehension so that they can take advantage into later life, not putting them off with topics only of interest. I spent some time with a pupil who wanted to become a plasterer, and claimed he had no need of english for his job. English lessons for him placed too much emphasis on topics such as grammar and tenses which were of no interest to him, and this meant that even when they were learning relevant topics, he was still unwilling to work. I told him that it is necessary for even his job, since he is going to be a plasterer, he will have to communicate with people. Therefore he needed to learn english as well.

One of the principle qualities of a good teacher is an ability to explain a topic in a number of different ...