A Salute to the Basic Education Teachers
January 29, 2009
Last summer I was asked by my former English teacher and class adviser if I knew someone who can teach computer in high school and at the same time have the technical skills to maintain the computers. They need one for my alma-mater which is a RVM school. She eventually asked me if I was interested. Timing could never have been better, I was looking for a job. Having been self-employed for years and gone nowhere, I thought I’d grab the oppurtunity.
To make this part of the story short, I passed the exam and the interview.
As time goes by, I learned that the computer teacher changed every year for four years now. Also I began to realize the reason why. Since there’s no school here that offers Basic Education courses that majors in Computer, the former teachers, like I am, I suppose were not really prepared for teaching high-school. I taught one semester before in college, handling third year and fourth year college students. I realized the hardway that teaching in college and in high school is light-years away in difference (I exagregated this part). What makes the difference is amount of work before and after each class in secondary school. The preparation alone– lesson plans, visual aids (Thank God for Power point!!!), Then comes the checking of quizzes and exams (I have more than 400 students all in all!!! UGH!!!) Then comes the computation of grades! (again 400 students! I wonder If icould have done it without a spreadsheet!!!).
The best (just want to be positive here) part was the two weeks before the PAASCU accreditation which we spent sleepless almost everynight!!!.
Now, a year has passed (a school year at least). My counterpart in the grade school department, who also joined just this school year quit. There was a I time that I thought I would follow the tradition too (well it’s becoming a tradition)… Then again, I might stay for another year …
Maybe
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