It's Teacher's Day! As I look back on my teaching journey, I realized that I've come a looooong way.
I started teaching in the church Sunday School on 9th September 2007. I had just turned 16 and I was starting to ponder on what I would like to study after high school. I fell in love with teaching.
Right after high school, I studied early childhood education in college and was deeply inspired by some lecturers. I loved to learn and would read and study on the train on the way to college (I am nerdy like that). I worked and studied at the same time as I believed that my learning would be more meaningful if I can apply and practice what I learned.
Whilst studying, I worked as an English tutor in a tuition center, a Mandarin teacher to 2-3 year olds, an assistant teacher in a very teacher directed school, a right brain teacher in an enrichment center, did my practicum in a so-called play based school. Then I graduated.
I taught right brain enrichment full time for 2 years (I still teach part time now) before moving on to a kindergarten. In a kindergarten, I get to bond more deeply with my children. However, the school I was teaching in was a too-many-students-in-a-class, too-many-books-to-complete-before-end-of-the-year, children-sit-down-and-listen-to-me kind of school. I did not enjoy teaching that way and felt the pressure of completing workbooks. I decided that that kind of teaching is not my cup of tea. I then joined TweedleWink Playhouse, a wonderful Montessori inspired right brain school and I really enjoy my work here.
Everything happens for a reason. I learn from good experiences and learn what not to do from bad experiences. And everything that has happened has led me to where I am and to be who I am now. I have never regretted my decision to be a teacher and I am so blessed to have found my calling. I never get Monday blues, and whenever I think of my children, I smile :-)
