Wednesday, September 14, 2011

[Bi] It's a draft




It's been a dream of mine to become a teacher so that I could help students learn and to be there for students in their time of need. When I was in middle school, I wasn't treated very fairly by a small group of classmates. These students would relish in the agony they caused, especially mine. Three months of torture and I was done with those people and I never wanted to return to school but the teachers and staff of the school supported me and convinced me to return to school with the promise that they would do better to enforce bullying rules and to listen students like me when they had complaints. Their promise was not kept and the rest of the school year and the two next years became my own personal hell.One of the worst parts was that the principal herself put me at fault even though I felt that I was the victim. I felt betrayed by the entire school staff and alienated from the student body. My salvation finally came after I graduated from middle school. In high school, I learned the joys of aiding fellow classmates learn.

I had always been good at mathematics and foreign languages so some of my classmates from my middle school days had required assistance on some work. Being in greater spirits from the freedom of those bullies who made me miserable, I agreed to help them for a short period of time since I needed to be home. While teaching them, I had realized that I was enjoying giving them, people who prior to this had never done anything to help or harm me and possibly apathetic towards my existence, knowledge. My self-esteem had near skyrocketed from the feeling of purpose and being part of something. Unfortunately, the next year I needed to transfer schools so I had to say goodbye to my acquaintances and re-assimilate myself to a new larger school alongside the problem of meeting new people. There, I managed to expand and continue helping fellow students and met some excellent teachers who have been very helpful to the students. Watching these teachers do their work gives me better understanding of how others around me learn, understand their needs are, and the most important parts of education. From other teachers, I have also found what not to do when teaching or giving assignments. 

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