Each teacher can recount numerous highs and lows in their teaching career. Personally, I experienced many great moments while teaching. 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. Days where the students seemed uninterested, too talkative, or worse a blow up occurred and nothing got taught. Thankfully the average combined with the positive days outshine my negative days.
Through my 15 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'm sure that many of you have wonderful teaching experiences like mine that you would like to share. I would love it if you would share these teaching experiences with me and other teachers so that we can pull inspiration from your experiences.
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Most of my experiences on teaching English are so simillary with others, but I feel very happy when our students give us a good responses, and i see the truth smile on their heart, that is my experiences. In others time i usually prepare the material for teaching by using “waste material” like blank paper, cutting picture from national magazine etc.
As a private teacher, I’m way out of the box. A few years ago I offered a class in history, bringing 2 boxes of books before my 3 students just to spark interest. They could pick any time, place, person, or subject. They were to study it, write a short report about what they had learned, and report to the class verbally.
One student surprised me with a report about something crashing to the earth in an eastern forest, and the government swooping in to gather everything up, and debriefing all the local people that “nothing” had happened. The “UFO” articles were later changed to a quiet mention of a Soviet satellite. From the radio she had a current event of a law suit to gain documents pertaining to the occurrence.
At a later meeting with staff regarding my class, I was informed that this student had never done any work of this type before when required in traditional settings. She had taken an interest in the world around her and “did something” for the first time.