Teacher/Student

Heyo everyone, this weeks blog is going to be about understanding students as a teacher.

I’m going to start this blog by saying I’m not doing the best in math this year. Not awful, but not the best. I could probably think of several excuses to why this is the case but that’s all they are. Excuses. However, I do believe that the root cause would be that I’m not really learning anything from my teacher. To put it simply, he doesn’t teach the way I learn. So far, I’ve learnt everything from another teacher I spend my lunch times seeing, and my textbook. Every single teacher will teach a different way, just as every single student will learn a different way. It’s the responsibility of both to make sure that the student will find someone who can teach to them in a way that they’re best suited to learn. Sometimes you do have to be adaptable, but it’s really hard to adapt to something completely out of your natural way of thinking. 

The Kwoon is no different. It’s a school; people teach, people practice, people learn, people perfect, etc. And with that comes the natural balance and conflict of teachers and learners. Even though the quality of teacher varies from person to person, everybody will connect with someone when teaching. Learning from my own difficulties at school, I’ve begun to apply this to my own methods of teaching, in an attempt to make myself more aware of the gap that may exist between myself and whomever I may be teaching, and adapting my methods to their own as best as possible.