Salam all,
There's thousand of reasons why I love teaching. Why I been tutoring kids voluntary and as job since 2005. Believe it it as nothing to do with whether I am smart or not. It's all about the teacher's passion that reflects through the student's result. It's not about a straight A's teacher producing a straight A student or a failed teacher produce a failed student.
I am not a failure. I am the result of success from a failure.
Okay, I am not using to boost myself but I am trying to make a point here that teaching has nothing nothing to do with a teacher's school grades but the attitude and willingness.
I was assigned to 2 students this year. They are totally opposite student. One is notorious the other is obedient. One is talkative and hyper the other is shy and quiet. One hates school the other loves school. One reflects me now the other reflects me in the past.
I used to love school when I was in primary and secondary but I hated it when I am learning something I am not interested in. That's the main reason why I am a repeated student this year.
Nadirah, my primary 1 student scored straight A's in all her subjects and is in top 4 in her class. She's improved from 2 a's 1b and top 9. She's a bright kid. I used to be like her, really. She is so motivated to learn and that's the reason why I will continue teaching her in 2010.
The other is Istiqamah, my primary 3 student. She's like me now, who hated school and her results were just borderline. One advice I gave her is that, there's always other way for you to be successful rather than scoring straight A's for school. I know you can do that, I am see a successful woman in you. You may make mistakes now, but I hope you learn from it. Making mistakes and learning from it is the best education you can ever had in your entire life. I did not hear from her, yet. But no matter what the results it, failure or passed, I still know she will soon find her own ways.
I am not tutor who force the student to study. For Nadirah, she always keen to learn who I motivate her every lessen so she won't get bored. For Istiqamah, I try to make the lessen as creative as possible by bringing my laptop and play math/eng/science quiz online. If she do not want to study, I will not argue and I will either let her do her own stuff and tell stories to make her understand that life is not based on report book. I may give a wrong message but sometimes I do feel that kids tend to not like school more if we keep scolding them that they are stupid, lazy, troublesome, failure & etc.
I am not ashamed to go for teaching interview and told them I used to be a repeat student. I am not ashamed to also tell them that since I have been a failure, I have help others to be successful.
I've read an article that top NUS students are given the top priority to go for interview. -_- What the heck? They think top student = top employees = top companies? It was never like that. Why interview the owner of the companies, trust me, some of them can't even speak English. But... these owners have a creative brain that think big and rich, that's why they are owners. A banker will never asked for report book but financial report. That's when you know who is smarter.
Alright, I shall stop here now. Can't go on anymore. Otherwise, it will be a 24hour long entry.
Salam,
Rohani
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