Finally I Am Back To Where I Belong -Blogging
Oops! Finally I am back to my normal life – i.e. blogging after more than six weeks into my professional training (Bachelor of Education or B.Ed).
Here, I must let my readers know a little bit about the background of my engagement in this profession. Soon after finishing my graduation, I was lucky to get a teaching job to teach Politics and occasionally Economics to 15-17 years old students. At the time of my appointment, I had no professional training to teach. So I had to do it as early as possible and hence I took admission for the training with the local university. My training program is called Distance Course as I am to attend lectures only during summer and festival vacations that makes it around eight weeks per year. It was 2004 that I finished my first year assignments but unfortunately I could not appear for the second year qualifying examination due to sudden heart attack that my father suffered. Since than I lost momentum or motivation to continue. But suddenly I realized that I must finish the course to enjoy full benefits and grab future opportunities that would arise in future.
So here I go. I appeared for the second year qualifying examination from 18th to 29th April and soon after I was into second year Personal Contact Program (PCP or lectures) from 3rd May (summer vacation). It continued till 27th May.
I don’t want to talk about how I fared in the examination as you may guess! It was horrible to do everything anew since I lost the momentum. However, there is a slight chance that I might qualify and I’ll soon be knowing it when my results come out.
But YES! I can certainly talk about my terrible experiences during the PCP. We had only two lectures per day and I took up English and Civics & Economics as my method papers. I had absolutely no idea what method papers were supposed to be. What turned out to be made me nervous as now I was learning all the methods and techniques to teach these subjects. I’ll soon be writing all those things that I had to learn.
Nevertheless, it was not the contents of the subjects that made me feel out of sort but it was the time I had to sit out in the class-room. Man, I had to sit out continuously for 90 minutes per subject. And it almost forced me to leave the training program as I lost the practice of sitting around longtime back. Due to my absent mindedness during lectures, I had big problems with my lesson plans and had to redo them again and again as professors did not approve them time after time due to low quality.
The most terrible experience I had during this period is on 25th May, the day I had to do micro-teaching. There were fifty six students with me in the hall and everybody had to do mock teaching. Before my turn came, I was already very nervous and sweating. And when my turn came, I forgot all my preparation and started to tremble.
So that’s it folks. Now that I am back (my next PCP is in October), I’ll slowly but surely bring all the lessons, tricks, techniques and methods I am learning during my teachers training. My sole goal is to share my experience with fellow educationists. 