STARKREISEN: Education

Dili

What will you define the education?
Or I should ask you which part of education in your life is the most important part.
That is quite hard question.
I am working in a primary school now.
At least I know that working as a primary teacher here must be somebody!
They got to extremely patience and good mood, and they also need to have a good way to correct those kids to make them follow the social issue in a short time.

Here we always said the kids of Grade 1 and 2 are totally barbarians!
After this two years, they will start to evolve as a normal kids.
Ha! That's right!
It will be the biggest problem here, kids don't care what you said always.

I just have a talk with a teacher in our school.
She have already taught in this school for more than ten years.
She mentioned many pressure in the past ten years.
In the beginning, they were lack of experience to transform the knowledge into the reality.
Specially in the remote school, kids are much more nauthy than cities', in this situation, we can say the lessens learned from the book are totally useless.
After few years, maybe you start to catch up the teaching job.
However, it's time for them to take some responsibility of office job.
Endless evaluating projects coming from different organizations.
If they want to gain some grants or funds, they have to do their best writing a proposal or plan.
Meanwhile, it will be really hard to keep their teaching quality the same to before.
I supposed it is a common problem for most of the primary teachers in Taiwan or even the world.
To be here, I am glad to know most of the teachers still put their passion of teaching in their mind.
When I talk with them, I can see the sparkling light in their eyes.
I realize the kids are lucky at least.

Teachers in remote areas will have some other pressure comparing to the cities'.
Some of the teachers are studying their master degree now.
It's quite nice that they plan to combine the research and their background, which means they will investigate some teaching attitude or even the pressue in teachers' mind.

Ah~ I know that every jobs will have their difficulties and pressure.
I still have 11 months to be here to do my social service.
People said Tidayi is a great way for us connect the students' life and carrer.
I think it is~
I got some ideas of that now.

Ha~ I am teaching English by HUGE sketchbook (繪本)