Summer Class Teaching Experiences

Summer classes has ended. I am now at the Computer laboratory of the school where I am teaching preparing for my syllabus fo rthe first semester. Out of the blue, thoughts about my experience for the last two months flashes back to me.

I remembered going to class for the first time as an instructor for my BSED1 ICT class. I was trembling back then, unable to cope up in taming the butterflies in my stomach. I stuttered, stuttered and stuttered. I can't even say the correct term for such word. I don;t know how to say things the way it was used to say. I'm speechless. I'm covered with sweat and my palms are frozen - as cold as ice. I can feel my ears - they're hot and seems like they're red. I can feel my face sweel of heat (I know I'm blushing...) I am shy. Actually I am not prepared to face my first students back then.

As I think of those things right now, I just had to smirk remembering those funny events in my life this past few months. At least, I have learned something from that first encounter and I learned to be confident a little more right now.

Life is a matter of change. We are changing constantly. Though we are not that aware of it, but when we look back, everything seems very different...^^

MY VERY FIRST STUDENTS

"In anything you do, there's always a first".

This saying seemed too old that I don't even know who made it. Yet,that the saying means is very clear. AS clear as the starry skies at night and as clear as the blue calm sea in the morning.

My first time to teach - my first students...

My Education students during their assignment presentation. I tend to stutter when I met them first. I don't have any experience in teaching other than playing as teacher with my cousins during childhood and here in front of these educators I'm blabbering things I hope they understood.

It is always a pleasure for me to meet such wonderful creatures. They seemed like high school kids though but what I really like about them is that the seemed-to-be childish attitudes and most specially young faces had a lot of hardships endured.

I have been to college and I have been a student once in my life yet, I did not experience such hardships they are enduring right now. Well, I'm not saying I did not experienced hardships when I was in college but things such as - loaning money to instructors just to pay the tuition fee, maintaining grades 85 and above not to be kicked out of the scholarship program and working 8 hours a day just to support their education is out of my league when I was in college.

I feel for them, very much. Then, I have two of my students who forced to drop their subjects because they can't afford to pay the tuition anymore.

Now, I understand why some of them can't absorb and internalize what I am discussing because they are ?TIRED?

Hmmm... I don't know. I may be boring like a bug keep on buzzing while discussing the topics for the day...

Am I making sense here? I just keep on typing random words...

But, well, They are my first students...