A lesson from my job

spurce

My dream at the time when I chose for myself what I thought I wanted to study and become ws to be an engineer. Congratulations to me, I stand proudly as one - a civil engineer. Not unfortunately, I'm not practicing yet. There are some things I have to put in place first before I kick off fully(if I still want to).

My current job, unfortunately, has little to nothing to do with people relations. I do it from the comfort of my home, and that's about it.

However, my other side gig, which is teaching, as you may already know, which I take physical classes, has taught me a thing or two on people and their individual peculiarities. Parents and their kids alike.

One very important thing that I have learned is that each child is special. I know that we say this very often and that it's true, but I've come to know that even in the place of learning, every child is Peculiar. They have their strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, soft spots, etc. I have taught both in a group and have also had to deal individually, and I now understand why a child who receives solo tutoring fares better at the than when he/she is taught in a class. And this is because in that close space, the child feels a stronger connection and it's a lot easier for the teacher to assess the student and offer him/her the best teaching method which he would confidently learn and grow by.
There's no child out there who is plain unwilling to learn(or maybe there is, I don't know) but with the right environment, the suited method and very importantly, with patience, any child can go from being dull, seemingly, to becoming an academic genius.

I had students who gave me some rough time in the first few days/weeks of teaching them, and because I was fixated on using the usual method of teaching on them, we made no progress. But when I started to diversify, to just learn about them and what interest them and then using their likes to go about the class improvements were made. This right here might be common knowledge, but for a long time, and even up until this point, it still affects the academic sector, even unto higher levels of learning.

There are so many other things that I learned from teaching. You will agree with me that teaching is one oppression that leads you on to interact with different people and exposes you to a lot of knowledge, trying your composure/patience yet teaching you profound things and shaping you. Meanwhile, this one stands out for me. And I can tell you that in many ways, this can be applied to general life behaviors. Things aren't in white and black only, and there's no one size fits all scenario. Venture out and Tru some other way. Who knows, you might just find something thrilling and new and something for you.

I hope that rgis was interesting to read. Thanks for coming around.