Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Experience of Being a Math Teacher

    I am in college now so in summer vacation I would like to find jobs and gain the experience in the society. Like my grandma, she was a chemistry teacher in a famous university in Shanghai, I want to be a math teacher in the future. I have set up my goal since I was 10 years old. Although my parents helped me to find some jobs in the business field last year, my high school teacher offered me a math tutoring job in the continuation class in the summer vacation. I was so excited when I knew that I was able to become a teacher in a young age and my dream came true.
    At first, I thought it was easy to become a teacher and it was just a job to tell the knowledge to the students. But I was shocked when my teacher handed me three 400-page books and told me to finish reading it in a week. Fortunately, I have learned more than 70% of the knowledge in the book in high school and college. It still took me a long time to read these books and I started feeling the difficulty of being a teacher. I was so nervous in the classroom in the first class even I prepared a long time and made a lot of notes. I tried to be a funny teacher and the feedback from students was good.
    I have taught math a month and I find that become a teacher is not as easy as I think before. A teacher needs to do enormous preparation not only the knowledge in the books but also the questions that students may ask. The teachers’ responsibility is heavy. This experience made me respect every kind of job more and learn math better. I hope I can get more opportunities in the future.

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