Completing weekly assignments, I feel like
I am solving a puzzle. This discussion assignment goes here and this task goes
there. Now the puzzle is 40 % done. Still a question is lingering. What goal am
I reaching? I don’t know how I achieve the goal, but the answer is clear. With
the aid of computers, I am expected to enhance ways to teach students.
This
week exploring websites in search of better approaches to reading and writing
skills, making a technology enhanced lesson plan, and predicting current issues
of the class that I teach, I came to see who I am as an English teacher. I
thought I have been trying to be a better English teacher. However, I realized that
I am becoming someone who is finding fault with circumstances. The issues expected
in teaching are easily ignored and efforts to improve teaching methods are
hardly made. If I change, my teaching will be different from the way I am
doing. The issues that I am facing seem inevitable, and I should tackle and win
over them.
Tackling, tackling, tackling... We always try to become better something - better speakers, better teachers, better parents, better citizens... This is what is called 'life.' If we stop finding ways to evolve and develop, we will not live. If we stop looking for new teaching methods and techniques, we will die professionally. One step at the same spot means one step back.
ReplyDeleteI think you are doing a great job criticizing yourself.)) Some critique is always beneficial - it mobilizes you and makes you concentrate on what is important. Let me cheer you up! Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and this is real life, this is progress! So never stop!
And thank you very much for the nice words you wrote on my blog, Kumwu! They encouraged me greatly and showed me that I am on the right way. We all are going through a very interesting stage in our lives which promises to bring lots of fruit in the future. Good luck, dear colleage!
Natalya.
Dear Kumwu Lee,
ReplyDeleteI want to join Natalya and to cheer you up! I think you should let the process go on, just follow it and I am sure you’ll come to the answers for all your questions. Remember, bad teachers never think they are bad just best of the best doubt, criticize themselves and engage scourging! Draw conclusions, Chin up and GO!!!
All the best,
Aliaksandra