Friday, February 16, 2007

On Being Taught By Students


It so nice to be taught by a fellow student. It is like learning like a professional teacher but only one thing is they are just your classmate. You have to behave orderly and properly so that the student teacher will give you points. The student teachers work like a professional teacher. They discuss very well and give test when needed. The student teachers ask questions that the students should answer but if the student cannot answer, they will have a minus point. They record the scores every time a test was given. And after the discussion, they sometimes gave games and singing contest. We have so much fun when the teacher is your fellow classmate. You would not forget the happenings you would have. The student teachers have so many different attitudes. One teacher is strict and the other is patient and calm. But the most important thing is you should respect your teacher as if they were like a professional teacher even if it is a student or your fellow classmate.
The student teacher is like your second mother. They guide you in the correct path and help you in learning easily especially the difficult lessons that have not understood. They correct when you are wrong and teach you to behave properly like an educated student of the country. Once the student teacher gets angry, they punish someone who misbehaves incorrectly and report this to the teacher. The student teacher sometimes is misunderstood but they are just a human being and your classmate who needs help when they had encountered a difficult problem in life. Student teachers also study their lessons during the night. They prepare notes and tests for us the next day. They also want us to review our lessons because they want us to learn the discussion easily, clearly and quickly.
When the student teacher discusses the lesson, the students should listen and pay their attention to the teacher in front of the class. But if the student did not listen to the one talking in front, the student will replaced the one talking in front of the class. He or she would be sent to disciplinary action and sometimes shall be suspended. In that way, the students should listen to the teacher who is discussing in his or her assigned topic given by the professor-in-charge. Sometimes these student teachers are not doing their job properly because they are only laughing and talking with their teammates and only telling ghost stories in class but there are student teachers who perform their job properly. They are doing their very best to teach us more accurately and systematically. Student teaching helps one of us to improve our hidden talents and express our own opinions in the class. In about a two day activity of “Know Your School Day”, we have learned so much about our classmates, lessons that are very difficult and language skills in English. This activity was so fabulous and amazing that I am so inspired to teach other students in the next year level. I hope this activity would for a long time until I graduate in UP High School because it helps us to be more sensitive and more careful in listening and answering the questions given the teacher-in-charge.

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