Experiences of True Learning

When people ask me about how my Encounter to teaching ICT in an international school went, I reply, “It was a true, learning experience” and it really was.

Each teacher can recount numerous highs and lows in their teaching career. Personally, I experienced many great moments while teaching these kids. These were days when I ended so happy and enthusiastic that I knew I had selected the right profession.

On the other hand, I had days where I definitely questioned teaching as a career. These were days where the students seemed uninterested, too talkative, or even worse a blow up occurred and nothing got accomplished. Thankfully the average combined with the positive days outshines my negative days.

Through my 3 years of teaching and working in education, one event stands above the rest as my absolute best teaching experience. Through it I learned so much about teaching and dealing with students. My hope is that the student involved was at least partially changed for the better from the experience as I was.

I was able to meet the other teachers from other international schools with whom we taught with, sharing experiences with people like Bosco, Chaka, Steven and the rest I realized that we all had similar experiences but what kept us going forward is that we had a wonderful time, being with these wonderful kids at the same time learning and developing professionally.

In the end, this experience changed me as a teacher. Students are people who have feelings and who don't want to feel cornered. They want to learn but they also want to feel as if they have some control over themselves.

 I also hope that there is something in this story that can help inform and inspire you.