Teaching Experience Brings Out a Realization

As a teenager, not paying attention in class is an ordinary thing, or even sleeping and talking in class are such the teenagers' things. That's why we need a creative teacher who can make the students pay attention in class. 

Last week, we were challenged to exchange status with our English teacher, Ma'am Agnes. 
My friend, Lisa, and I became a teacher for only a 40-minute history class. For a beginning, we were supposed to make Lesson Plan which is a plan of how we, as the teachers, were going to teach our friends in class. We had to make the lesson as interesting as it could be so that our friends would pay attention to us.
For our history lesson, we chose the topic of Japanese colonization which actually had ever been given to us in the 1st semester but we tried to make it clearer and more interesting in our own way.
Being a teacher is not always about only explaining about the materials but how we can make the students to be active (participate) in class. 
So, to make it more interesting, we showed the video of how the Japanese gave the independence to Indonesia and we made a puzzle game (Some pictures that we cut and our friends will stick it together again the way it was supposed to be). At the end, we told them to explain what they thought it was all about. But, if they thought wrong, we'd explain it.
On that day of teaching, I wasn't even nervous or anything. But this teaching experience made me realize that teaching is NOT AS EASY AS I thought could be. It was kind of hard for me to make a serious-but-fun class. But it was great to finally realize that teachers are the heroes who tries their best way to prepare us on becoming a sucessful person someday.