Monday, April 24, 2006

students

Finals week is not until next week but the lab that I am assisting for has a lab report due this week. Considering that not all my students got a chance to finish their experiments in time, I took the effort to have an open lab session this morning. I brought along with me 3 research articles as I thought no one was going to turn up. But surprisingly, there were about 15 students who came in. Some had questions and some just came to look at their results. Some were glad that I had the open lab.

I never thought that I would be able to teach someone else after the failure of teaching my lil bro maths in high school. I used to wanna be a teacher..remember the stuff we have to fill up during report card week? Teacher was always one of my options. Until one day, mum asked me to teach ahboy maths and I totally threw that ambition out of my mind. He was so stubborn. But today, I felt good after the open lab session. I was so glad that I could help out with all these kids. They were very patient and understanding with some of my explanations. For some reason, I tend to explain some stuff longer than necessary. It definitely made my day and no doubt, I would be willing to TA for the class again.

Today is actually one of my better Mondays. Although I didn't get as much done as I had plan, I did get some work done and some readings out of the way. Even got a chance to talk to BK and he actually made me feel better too. I just can't find a reason why after so long, his moods still affects me, giving me mix feelings. But today, I actually feel like a real friend to him...and that I matters to him. Maybe we can actually be friends after all...

2 comments:

zbjernak said...

i m a tuition teacher now...
is a mix class..
kindergarden, stf 3, std 4, std 5, std 6

and damn chaos i tell u...
teacher here teacher there... but most of them ok,
except one who always come in and dont do homework..just sit and play..even i scold, advise, and he cries, and still no chances...

teacher... not an easy job... really!

Ping-Ping said...

Aww..they must be sooo cute. How can you scold them? Bribery with candies are always a good idea. :P

My labs can be very chaotic too especially when it comes to learning how to use microscope.

But I really do enjoy teaching..despite all the 'Can you come look at this?' 'Can you tell me what is this?' every few minutes.