Sometimes life as a teacher can feel isolating. Looking at the stories in this step or on the Padlet, can you find any similarities with your own experiences? Have you found ways of dealing with them that others might find helpful?

I have found so many similarities when I was reading the Padlet and it made think of my past. Before I came to study at Minmahaw Higher Education Program at 2023, I was an inexperienced teacher at my high school named Eden Valley Academy. At that time, I cannot make a choice of which subjects what I wanted to teach and I have to teach that I was assigned and also, I have to teach 6-7 different grades daily. I was exhausted daily as the classes started from 8 am in the morning and end at 3 pm at the evening. Each class last 30 minutes and sometimes, I have to teach 3 consecutive classes without taking a rest. Moreover, the classes are overcrowded and since I was around the same age as the students, it is very difficult to teach as some students are very disrespectful to me. However, despite these, I always go inside classes with smile and trying my best to give the best education to them. Though I don't know any technique to teach the students properly, every days is a new lesson for me and that every reflection that I have gone through that time made me more patience, more mature, and understand more of the education inside the refugee camp. At the end of my teaching year there, among 200 students, only 1 or 2 students fail to upgrade their class. Though I can say that I am not satisfy with what I can do on that time as I was very inexperience and every day was very difficult for me as a teacher.

Currently, I was teaching at Minmahaw School, which is a post-secondary program that run only 1 year, for almost 2 years and I always had hope that if I knew what I have learned here back in the day, I know that I will do it better in teaching inside the camp. Here, I have attended short-courses of teacher training for 2 consecutive years and it taught me a lot. There are a lot of teaching method you can use and one thing that always fantasize about teaching is that "Everyone has different learning capacities." Some students, they learn better if you showed them with visionary stuff, some learn better if they have to do it practically, and some have different talents in the things that they are doing. By hitting with these facts, I felt regret for not doing a great job back when I was teaching in my high school. However, this also motivated me to find happiness in teaching and that allowed work at my hundred percent for the students. Moreover, I also think that the motivation of the students also needed for a teacher to perform really well in teaching as well. Imagine that you have to teach in a class where nobody wanted to study or where everyone is very passionate to try very hard for their future. I am pretty sure that you can work more better as a teacher if you have passionate students who really trying so hard to study than students who don't have any passion at all. 

Overall, though I don't want to become a teacher as my career pathway, I can admit that I am actually enjoying teaching when I have to teach students who don't give up even when they constantly have to face failure in their daily lives.