A Dream for a Better World

I choose “teachers” to start with, because a classmate of mine is a teacher. She was in the CCTV news this week as a “spicy teacher” because her great personality and the way she gets along with her student.

One of my classmates from the university becomes very famous recently. Her name is Deng Rui. A 24 years old lovely girl who works in a primary school in Chengdu at the moment. She becomes really hot because her great sense of humor in teaching.

Chinese people values teacher a lot. In tradition point of view, study is a very serious issue. Teachers should be erudites and strict, and students should never challenge the teacher.

Well, it has been changing as China has been absorbing western culture since the “Reforming and Open-up policy” has been carried on in 1978. The easy and facetious western culture has rocked the old stiff Chinese world. My generation, the people who were born in 1980’s, was growing up in the new colorful world.

We got to know that teachers are not always right. We’d love to challenge the authority in studying times. We were famous for beyond the control, and we even have been considered as the lost generation by the educationist..

Apparently, we bring the “new world” to the class when we grew up and become a teacher ourselves.

Deng Rui represents the typical characteristic of this generation.

She would sing to the student that “you’re still in my eyes”, when he was afraid to look at her in the eye because he has been found that he was stealthily doing something in the class.

When the student makes a lot of mistakes in the homework, she will tell him that he is not match with his “NIKE” shirt—NIKE’s logo is a “√”. “I will buy you a “Xecp” shirt, whose logo is a “×”, if most your answers are wrong..

When there are students talking in class, she will make a miserable face and tell them:” How can you be so cold-hearted to left me teach the lesson alone? You made my heart broken into pieces.”

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Children love her because they feel like she is a real person in their life, but not just some kind of saint who never makes mistakes, or tell jokes.. And she will never give students any kind of corporal punishment for their improper behavior.

I am proud of her. Not because the fame she has got, but what she has been doing is something. The girl who were challange the teacher in school now is teacher who is challenge the traditional education method.

Wish her good luck in the future.

Teaching can be a stressful job, what with the demands on time that a teacher often faces. A little bit of effort and planning is all that is needed to devise the perfect time management system for teachers though. The first and foremost aspect that a teacher needs to do is to focus on one type of task, since constant multitasking would slow them down considerably. Similarly they should set aside a specific time of the day for a particular type of work. For instance, they could set aside a time when they would deal with electronic messages. Similarly they can allocate a time for discussions with parents and for returning urgent phone calls.

Learning is the key to everything in this world, and that makes teaching one of the key activities. Unfortunately, as a teacher myself, I find far too many teachers that are more concerned with just “getting the job done” then really working with their students. For those teachers that really work for the benefit for those they teach, nothing makes us feel better than seeing that look on a students face when they suddenly have that “Eureka” moment and truly learn the subject. It’s a hard job that normally goes unappreciated, but knowing that you are helping to educate the next generation of leaders to be better people is enough.