KayYip的中文、普通話、日語、手工橡皮印章的天地

Recently, a little bit busy, because of more tuitions than before, I am teaching Secondary and Primary students. They have almost the same difficulties, for example, they couldnt write an essay with enough words, proper words, grammetical mistakes,etc. Also, they wouldnt read after school, this is really a big problem. Therefore, they wouldnt know more words apart from textbook. Language is a hard thing, need to put a lot of effort, interest, imagination.

I always prepare excercises and teaching materials, it is easy for me to teach, however, it is quite hard for them to keep attention with low interest. I hope everytime I teach, they could absorb very very quickly, such as next lesson could still remember what they learnt last lesson...My standard is too high, I know, but couldnt help to think like that....If I could not see the effect of teaching, I will be disappointed. I give myself a lot of pressure, would think I have responsibility to upgrade their marks/level,otherwise, would blame myself a lot. I am still learning how to ease these kinds of pressure. 

I guess my piano teacher may have the same thinking, because she wants me to pass my piano exam, she said she couldnt accept failure, which meant my failure will be equal to her failure, but I told her, took it easy. When I am a student, I know, failure will be my responsibility;When I am a teacher, I think it will be mine,it is very contradictory. 

I like teaching, I like that when teaching, I am concentrated, forget everything apart from teaching, time seems meaningful and is easy to pass. I feel my heart beating quickly, it is excited to solve problems. After teaching, I might feel satisfied, or might not be , my mind would keep searching the better ways to teach.

One-one teaching is more direct to have interaction with student, and I could adjust my approach to fit particular students. This is hard to do in classroom with 40students. I hope to keep teaching as part-time work, because I like teaching with no living pressure. If in the future, I have no living pressure, and could teach some poor students, even have no paid, I would like to do that. I hope, students are willing to know more Chinese, have interest in it, not just for exam.