Dear Lord, we are very grateful for a new opportunity you gave, for another day for us to learn about things, to be with our best friends, and to have some fun. Thank you for all of that. We remember those who are unfortunate, who cannot go to school, and cannot afford to pay the school fee. Please, be with them and give them peace. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen!
This is how I end the class whenever I get the chance to. I really hope this prayer can be a wake-up call for students. They are very lucky, aren't they? That is the reason I want them to thank God for those privileges they (might) have taken for granted. I need to keep them in track, feeling grateful for their lives. Though later I found that it is not the only job I have as a teacher.
On Saturday, August 6, I attended a parent-teacher meeting. The number one figure in the school explained, 'to educate is somehow different to, to teach.'
To teach is as far as to make the unknown known. Yet, to educate covers a greater aspect. It, as explained, is about forming characters. In other equally thrilling terms, to educate means to draw a blueprint of the future.
Who on earth am I to do such as a job? I am a teacher in the making and an unfinished work as an individual. I am struggling both with self-discipline and directing my own life. How could I be such a decisive figure for someone else's life?
It was too much of unrealistic views. I can only get along with them 90 minutes per week. It equals 360 minutes per month or 6 hours per month. I am reluctant to compare it to the remaining time they spend with their girl/boyfriends, and families. It's going to be very little and could look insignificant
When a friend of mine told me that I might be a real teacher (an educator), I was not sure about what I was supposed to say. If measured against the parameter, I am definitely out straight away. I have no reasons to be humble around this matter, by the way.
I have got a lot to do in very little time, 26 hours teachings per week, 26 hours preparations, 26 correcting students' works and giving them constructive feedbacks, as well as more hours to take roles in some school events. Sorry! I am overwhelmingly booked everyday. Yes, you're right. I am complaining.
I go to school 06.15 and back home 16.00. I will have been used up by the time I get home. However, the major cause of this fatigue are those speeches I do in the front of free minded and active persons staring at me almost everyday. I teach Grade X, XI, and XII. It is my relief that we don't have grade XIV! As what I predicted would happen, the loads are simply a lot.
Many to think about in so limited time. I have to think about teaching objectives, the materials, activities, audio-video aids, and most of all the talk itself (I keep thinking of the content, grammars, and pronunciation during the lessons).
Looking back at times when a storm of reality hadn't struck me yet, I can recall those youthful spirit. I didn't (hopefully don't) want to get settled. I was rather over critical to the existing system. I told I could be the change.
'It should have been this way and that that way.'
'What about making this one? It works there and seems to work here, too.'
Dear Lord, You know it, I got so much to do. But I don't want to skip the chance to be the channel through which You pour your blessings to others. When I get low, You always know what to do. Use me! I remember those who begin losing the heart to be the solution for others to be 24-hours helps for other. Give them peace. In Jesus's name we pray. Amen!
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