My Experience Being a Teacher for 1 day

Honestly, my first impressions about teachers are : “Whoa, being a teacher is so fun. They can manage their students, do whatever they wanna do to them, and of course, they’re respected by their students.” I think because they have mastered their subjects for years, the teachers had no trouble teaching their students. Moreover, I believe teaching is easy. As if you flipped the palm of your hands. Frankly speaking, I was quite jealous of them, you know. I always dreamed such an easy job like that. But in the end, it turns out that I don’t want to be a teacher. Why? Listen to the story I’m about to tell you guys.

Once upon a time, in a far far away galaxy... Okay, that’s not good enough. So let’s do it from the top.

In the beginning of the second semester, Mrs. Agnes gave us a task to become a teacher for a day. She asked us to work in pairs and gave us about 25-40 minutes to teach in the class. You know what kind of lesson we were supposed to teach? History lesson! Ain’t that awesome? This time, I took my chances with Christwara. It looks like he will be fit for the job because we both like History and we decided to take topics that we both like, American Civil War.

Days later, our preparation was done and the teacher has announced that our turn would be coming. I have made the presentation as interesting and as fun as possible, and I felt ready for anything at that time. At least for the presentation. Everything is done beautifully and perfectly. And so I said to myself "I'm qualified to be a teacher". Looking back now, I think it's too early for me to say that.

That day was Wednesday. We have 40 minutes to explain what we have prepared for about a week. I was enjoy teaching our material, but in the other side, I feel so messed up. Nobody care, nobody’s watching our lesson. They slept, they talked about the other problem. I think it’s no use I keep on explaining, but I decided to carry on explaining. They see me as another friend, not as a teacher. Moreover, I couldn’t punish them because I have no authority on it. I thought that time was a good deal for us to show off our ability to teach someone. Thus, we can’t do everything as planned.

In the end, I think we're halfway successful. We made a exciting presentation but we flunk on crowd controlling. What is hard for being a teacher is to control your students, making them interested of you. Honestly, I never thought that being a teacher to be such difficult. All of this experiences made me change my mind a lot, a little bit tough, of being a teacher.

I'm sure you're yawning to read this freakingly long post. So I'll end it here. I hope that this changed your mind about teachers in all of aspect. Thank you !