FROM A STUDENT TO TEACHER

Whenever you think of going back to school, you think about that bench, the  teacher looking through those lenses, the rush to complete work, the playground, the corridor... and woooo.. the rush that we get when we were passing through the principal's room corridor.  ppphheewww...

But now that i am back to school, i am not here as a student, not in my school, but in some other  school. I am back as a TEACHER.. hmmmm.. a teacher. We used to think ," teacher .. what do they have to do.. come.. lecture.. giving the details of the "good" and "bad" things... etc. ( with d

ue respect)... and go back".

On the contrary, when i look back and analyse those memories, i can now understand ( since i am in their shoes) how difficult it was for them to tackle the situations of a very demanding profession. A profession where you are considered next to GOD... then you are the SURROGATE MOTHER of all the kids of your class. You can't be yourself since you have a moral duty to behave as a role model for those kids who admire you like anything and you have to be role model even  if they hate you ( that too happens but i think its for a good reason).

I remember that there was this huge staff room where all the teachers sat together chatting, chirping ( hopefully not about us!!!) and we used to feel so privileged when we were called by the teacher in that territory. We used to boast this fact that we are a frequent visitor... hihihihihi.

But i can understand now that apart from that chirpiness that room also meant... reports, diaries, lesson plans, competitions,  preparation material, assessment and evaluation and above all correcting notebooks of all those kids, not only of one subject or one class but many many.... and then the pressure of syllabus completion and all those inspections to be judged on the base of those notebooks.

I am a teacher now. Its been long ten years since i had joined this " NOBLE" profession. i have seen the dynamics changing during this decade. but now i have started thinking about writing my experiences as a teacher. i hope you will like them also. i am not a perfect teacher... but i am learning ...

My professor once had said, "WHEN YOU ARE A STUDENT, YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO TEACH. BUT WHEN YOU BECOME A TEACHER, YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN."

i have come "BACK TO SCHOOL" to learn new things and i am still learning.. and learning ... and learning

to become a better person in my life.

 glad that you have read it.