Becoming a teacher again
With a teaching background I felt that the next great step for a teacher would be to try something outside of the traditionally run educational settings. I started corporate training and personality development in 2004 .
The skills to become a trainer overlapped with those of being a teacher as I knew it. I was used to presenting, being in front of a room, capturing the attention of your audience and having an impact on how they think. I could design a lesson to have an impact. There were better and worse ways to deliver the same content and I was accustomed to working out methods to get the message across. I learnt that I can't teach everything the same way.
Before I joined this course I wasn’t aware of so many skills and insights and methods that would enhance my skills as a trainer / teacher . My adult students tend to have more fixed patterns as a result of their experiences and can therefore be less open minded than children to new learning. Children, with less experience, are often more open to learning new things.
It is now thanks to this program with all the new learning that is developing and as I change towards being a more evolved person I feel like going back to teaching children . I want to cease being a trainer and go back to teaching children .
It's hard to put into words all the reasons why I want to be a teacher again. Some days when I take time to ponder the immensity that the role of a teacher entails I feel overwhelmed. Some days I find myself just dying for my chance to touch children's lives. It's hard to describe, but something inside of me tells me that though it's not going to be easy, this is what I am meant to do and I want to return to being a primary teacher especially now with all this wonderful training I am undergoing . Earlier I just followed a system and there was no interaction .It was more or less a one way approach. It was structured and I found no challenge in the earlier ways of primary school teaching .
Now with all this learning and reflection taking place it would be unfair to myself if I don’t take the opportunity to turn to my earlier audience – children . I want my classroom to be an exciting place . I want children to leave my class with more confidence, compassion, and enthusiasm for life and learning than they entered it. I will try to teach them the skills they need to know to succeed academically, and the skills they will need to love themselves and others.
I bet changing back to a teacher and choosing to teach primary after years but armed with new found knowledge and active learning skills will be exhilarating, overwhelming, frightening, but exceedingly worthwhile. I am ready to accept the challenge of becoming an active learner and teacher with my arms, mind and heart wide open.
The skills to become a trainer overlapped with those of being a teacher as I knew it. I was used to presenting, being in front of a room, capturing the attention of your audience and having an impact on how they think. I could design a lesson to have an impact. There were better and worse ways to deliver the same content and I was accustomed to working out methods to get the message across. I learnt that I can't teach everything the same way.
Before I joined this course I wasn’t aware of so many skills and insights and methods that would enhance my skills as a trainer / teacher . My adult students tend to have more fixed patterns as a result of their experiences and can therefore be less open minded than children to new learning. Children, with less experience, are often more open to learning new things.
It is now thanks to this program with all the new learning that is developing and as I change towards being a more evolved person I feel like going back to teaching children . I want to cease being a trainer and go back to teaching children .
It's hard to put into words all the reasons why I want to be a teacher again. Some days when I take time to ponder the immensity that the role of a teacher entails I feel overwhelmed. Some days I find myself just dying for my chance to touch children's lives. It's hard to describe, but something inside of me tells me that though it's not going to be easy, this is what I am meant to do and I want to return to being a primary teacher especially now with all this wonderful training I am undergoing . Earlier I just followed a system and there was no interaction .It was more or less a one way approach. It was structured and I found no challenge in the earlier ways of primary school teaching .
Now with all this learning and reflection taking place it would be unfair to myself if I don’t take the opportunity to turn to my earlier audience – children . I want my classroom to be an exciting place . I want children to leave my class with more confidence, compassion, and enthusiasm for life and learning than they entered it. I will try to teach them the skills they need to know to succeed academically, and the skills they will need to love themselves and others.
I bet changing back to a teacher and choosing to teach primary after years but armed with new found knowledge and active learning skills will be exhilarating, overwhelming, frightening, but exceedingly worthwhile. I am ready to accept the challenge of becoming an active learner and teacher with my arms, mind and heart wide open.
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