Life of a Teacher Blog

I loved my life of teacher days, actually, after my life of a teacher days, I was placed in a class without a teacher for 3 more days, loved it, I followed the timetable and taught the kids, found videos to help them learn, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience.

In Block 1 I was placed at a low-resourced school, the life of a teacher was more challenging, however, I managed to keep the learners under control and teach the content that was to be taught, I taught 3 subjects in my first block, English, Natural Science, and History.

Block 2, my school was changed due to unfortunate circumstances and I loved it, the classroom size was 27 learners as opposed to 48 as I had in my first block, the learners wanted to learn and were cooperative. The most challenging activity was classroom control, in both schools classroom discipline was a challenge, however in Durban North Primary (2nd block) it was easier to manage due to the classroom size, as a teacher you need to let the learners know that you are not their friend but a teacher and they need to listen to you, therefore, overcoming this challenge was being very firm with learners and I went around the class checking each learner work to make sure they did do their tasks, I found that then they knew I was serious and then complied.

My self-evaluation would be that I am a good teacher, I have great energy and I genuinely have a lot of love to share with the learners, however, I must be firmer, I cannot show the learners that I love them, they do take advantage. I have learned to incorporate methodology, a topic is taught, the learners’ complete tasks and I mark with them and we correct work together, certain topics in math had to be taught from the beginning as the learners had no clue.