Reflections on Being Taught

I decided not to be a student teacher because I want to… because I only I want to be a student and maybe give myself a chance to listen to my classmates’ discussions. It was exciting because they were supposed to be your classmates but at that time, they were my teachers. Your respect should be a little higher because at that moment, they had the power, I mean; they were more respectable at those times.

I realize that even if the person talking in front of you is just a student or even just a classmate, we need to respect and listen to what he/she is telling you or discussing to you. . Although they were not real teachers, they had managed to be patient in discussing when they really know who were paying attention and who were not. They know more who we are so it was like an awkward thing for me. But the advantage is that, we are classmates so we don’t insult each other and that we are comfortable with each other.

Some of my classmates taught not only in our class but also in other classes like in section Benton and the 1st year sections. As I had seen, they were really busy and they were so dedicated to their work. It was like that they were real teachers. So I assume that they will be so independent when they will reach their college years. I hope I can be as hardworking as they are.

Some of them taught so well, and some were just all right. Some had problems with the lessons assigned to them but some felt happy about their easy lessons. Some of them just reported and some also really discussed and even gave us tests.

I loved their certificates and their IDs. They were so wonderful and even artistic. They were really like real teachers that had given awards. I was not really like amazed or wondered because I’ve been, I mean, we’ve been through this before. But that time was different because the people you don’t expect to join had joined. And you thought that they couldn’t do the right thing. But exactly they did well their part. Now, I can really say that UP students are really brilliant. They are good in academic, sports, music and arts. Students here can really be teachers someday. I know some of them who wanted to be teachers or professors. I’m sure that it will not be hard for them because they already have many experiences, in fact, very memorable experiences. Those experiences had given a great meaning and new lesson to all the students in UP high school, not just student teachers but also those who didn’t participate in teaching I was happy that the lessons were not hard to understand maybe because we had so much fun with our student teachers. I hope that those experiences would not be forgotten by the student teachers. That was also a great achievement for them. Lastly, I want to wish a good luck to all of them.