Teaching is tough. Unlike relief teaching, you have to prepare your own lessons to cover a syllabus. If you are not prepared, you will lose momentum while teaching. The students will get bored, they will start dreaming or do their own work. The worst part is, they will start talking.
Preparation is the most important part for teachers. Unless you're really really good, maybe you can improvise as you start teaching. But for most, if you have no worksheets, or no interesting way to present your lesson, or you do not know where to continue next, you will just lose their interest. Sighs. I only hope that I can start giving proper lessons with resources available. It'll take a few weeks for everything to stabilise I hope. I'm just pissed that I do not have all the students books, or information of what the school's initiatives are, or how a subject should be taught, or what online resources in intranet that I can use. If only there's a proper induction program that EXPLAINS everything rather than giving me 2 days of observation, out of which, only 1 proper lesson was conducted and the rest were either interrupted for photo taking or tests. Yeah, well, maybe I should not be complaining since I chose teaching. But the best way to learn something is to SEE and TRY it.
Maybe it's just me. It would have been better if I am given the chance to co-teach a class rather than being given a CLASS and expect me to know how to organise it properly. I'm afraid for their results.
If any teachers are reading this, give me advice ya? It will surely help ease all these stress.
