"HELLO SIR" ONCE MORE

It’s like two days ago when I thought that I would not handle teaching loads anymore. But it seemed like I miss the whole me-teaching-again scenario after the incident I’ve encountered today.

WHY I BECAME A PART OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE

At first, I applied in my company as part-time English teacher. Fortunately, they are badly in need of a full-time English and Social Science teacher. I accepted the post and started teaching.

The faculty officer gave me four different subjects to teach, namely: Basic English, Writing across the Discipline, Sociology and Philippine History. I guess so far, I never became so stressed like before I accepted to handle the aforementioned subjects.

Four different subjects, meaning four different subject preparations per week, is tantamount to a burden on my part. “I can’t live with this kind of schedule”, I told myself. That’s why I quite teaching Basic English. Unfortunately, since I dropped Basic English, I am not anymore qualified for the post of Full-Time faculty member.

Luck is still on my side, because the post for Marketing-Assistant for the same company is still open. The bargain is this, they’ll give me the post for Marketing-Assistant, but I must continue teaching my subjects except for Basic English.

I-AM-NOT-A-TEACHER-ANYMORE TIMES

Upon the end of the first semester, I’ve noticed that there’s quite change in my work schedule. Before, when I’m still teaching, by the time I go home, I‘ll sleep then when I wake up, I’ll review my lesson for the next day.

But now that I don’t have any teaching loads anymore, after work, all I need to do is sleep, wake up, surf the net, and then watch the television. My schedule became a No student-encounter, more break-time, no computation, no reviews for tomorrow, and less stress. In short, work became easier when I became a full-time member of the admin. That’s why days ago; I decided that if my immediate superior will ask me to teach again, I would certainly refuse the offer. Let’s put it this way, I am now lying in a very comfortable bed, so why would I go back in the cold floor again to sleep?

FELT THE SAME FEELING AGAIN

This morning, while I’m typing and arranging my schedule for marketing, the faculty officer approached me. She wants me to substitute the Political Science teacher in her class for the whole week, it’s because the teacher will be absent because of family matters. Good thing the schedule is not a conflict and I really want to handle Political Science.

Then there it was, in a span of 1 hour, I prepared my lesson and my visual aid. I arrived at the class room 10 minutes late. Then I discussed the lesson. The discussion is smooth sailing, though students sometimes were noisy, I saw anxiousness in them on the subject.

The “good afternoon sir”, setting-up of the projector and laptop, rush lesson preparation, and students interaction made me realized that I miss this stressful floor where I used sleep at.

Focusing on the negative aspect of a certain expirience will lead you in hating it. Like in my case, since I treated my teaching expirience as a stressor, I failed to see how rewarding it was. That if I weigh in the negative and positive effects on it to mine, certainly, the positive side would weigh heavier. :)