...Paul Andrew Gutib...

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Sunday, February 4, 2007

KYSD: Sophomore and Junior Experience

In my previous post, I posted there my experience of being taught by my fellow students for the past years and this year. I also posted there that I was once a student teacher in Computer II and Computer III. Now, I will share my experience and feeling on being a student teacher in Computer II and Computer III.

When I was in the second and third year level, it got into my mind the thought of teaching for the KYSD celebration. I had a feeling that I should try this even just once because I want to experience the thought of being in front of my fellow students. So, I then decided to send an application letter to our computer teacher. I chose the computer subject because I noticed that my performance was great and somehow excellent at this subject. When I sent my application letter to our teacher, our teacher then approved my letter because there was no one else who applied for her position. I was quite surprised with the reason because I really thought that many would apply for this position because this subject was very entertaining and fun.

On the opening program of the KYSD, I then found myself standing on the stage and being given an identification card containing my name, subject and my position. I was new to the feeling, so I felt very superior to the ones who are watching me below the stage. I felt very proud of myself because I was given the responsibility and the authority of handling our computer teacher’s class.

So, the real deal started. It was then time for our computer lessons. We all went to the computer laboratory after the student teacher on the previous subject dismissed us. When I entered the computer laboratory, I then felt an eerie feeling because I was thinking of what I am going to do with this class. If something happens to this class, I will be the one who will be accountable to the happening. But then, when I started teaching, the feeling that I felt moments before was suddenly gone and replaced by another feeling. The new feeling I felt was very annoying because my fellow students were not listening to what I am saying. They were just talking and moving around the computer laboratory. I was about to feel discouraged when suddenly something went into my head. I then remembered my duty and my responsibility to the class. So, when I remembered this duty of mine, I then asserted my rights and powers given unto me by our computer teacher. I scolded them and requested them to shut their mouths because their voices were filling up the whole computer laboratory. When they heard me say this, they all returned to their assigned computer units. I then explained to them the lessons that they must understand and study because our teacher might give an exam about the discussion. I also said to them that it would only be their loss if they do not listen to me because I will be exempted in the test.

After coming home from school, I then felt very exhausted to what happened. I was very tired and sleepy that I want to sleep for ten hours. When I was already in bed, I then said to myself that being a teacher is not really as easy as I used to think, especially when handling and teaching a class full of hard-headed students like us.

On Being Taught By Students

Celebrating the Know Your School Day (KYSD) has been a tradition here in UP High. In this celebration, the students will be given authority to run the school and to teach the students in their assigned subjects. But before that, the student teachers must send first an application letter to the teacher whom they want to apply for. Then, the teacher must then interview the applicants in order for them to know what they are going to do. For the non-teaching positions, they send their application letters to the people who are holding the desired positions. I think they are still going to be interviewed but maybe not in the same manner as the ones applying for the position of teachers because this does not concern subjects anymore, but the whole school. Sometimes, some teachers do not get any application letters from the students. Some teachers may feel bad about this, but actually they must feel happy. When a teacher does not receive any application letters, it is either that the teacher is not very appealing to the students that they are now retaliating to him or her, or maybe that the teacher is very appealing to the students that they do not want to apply for his or her position because the fun might be spoiled. How will the teacher know which is which? Well, he or she must ask the students why nobody applied for his or her position. If the students answer back, then the teacher must be appealing, but if the students do not answer back or answer in an intriguing manner, expect that the students do not like the teacher.

In the past years, I was accepted by our computer teacher to teach Computer II and Computer III. It was only in the first and fourth years that I did not apply for a position because I got too busy for the Cyberfair and I was adjusting to the environment when I was in the first year.

I, being taught by my fellow students, feel good sometimes because I can easily approach them if I do not understand a thing or two. It feels good sometimes because I do not get nervous due to the feeling that the one that is asking me is my fellow classmate. The feeling is not the same compared to the feeling I feel when asked by the real teacher. Maybe it is because the student teachers usually do not get mad and are not very strict on things. They are somehow nice to the students in someway and still getting their jobs done. For me, being taught by fellow students is great because I can easily talk to my seat mates without getting scolded the way the real teachers do. The way the student teachers scold the students is far too different compared to the real ones because they do not get very angry. They just tell me to stop talking and to put my attention to the lessons, just like that and it is all done. Being taught by my fellow students does sometimes feel that I am inferior to them because they are better than me in this topic or lesson. The feeling is somehow negative and bad sometimes. But even though it sometimes feel that way, being taught by my fellow students is far too great of a feeling compared to the bad ones.

Pre-Marital Sex

Nowadays, teenagers are getting more exposed to social problems and relations with other people. They are now getting in exclusive relationships that sometimes hold bad effects for them. Some of these bad effects distract young people’s studies, ruin their future and even give unwanted pregnancies. What the people of the world call as pre-marital sex cause these unwanted pregnancies.

Some teenagers here in our country are getting pregnant at not yet the right age. Majority of these teenagers who get in this kind of activity are 13-19 years of age. According to some teenagers, they really do not like to get involved this kind of activity, but the moment they are with their partners in solitude, they become out of control and eventually find themselves in bed with their partners. For me, this is a fact because according to a book that I read, research found out that engaging in pre-marital sex is not really wanted, but only made because of overpowering emotions. They said that even though you promised yourself that this kind of thing would not happen to you, it is still very possible to happen, unless you avoid it yourself. According to them, the best thing you can do is not to put yourself in the test by putting yourself in the situation. Always avoid the trouble because you cannot really control the cravings of the flesh when provoked.

For me, the real problem of pre-marital sex is not really with women only, but to both sexes. Men always say to their partners that they love them very much and that they cannot live without them. They say that having them is the best thing that ever happened in their lives and that they are not going to give problems to them. Now this I say to men who say these things to girls, if they really love their partners that much and they do not want them to experience any problems, then why are they engaging in this kind of activity. Pre-marital sex is an act wherein the girls get unwanted pregnancies. Now, is not unwanted pregnancies a lifetime of problems? Of course it is! The fact that you are giving your partner a thing that she is not going to like, then how can you say that you are not giving her problems? If you truly love your partner, then you should not engage in this disgusting activity. Some men say that they are not giving their partners problems but are instead giving them “happiness”. Happiness? Is that what they call happiness, seeing their partners cry on one end because they do not know what to do? The happiness, the pleasure and the erotic feeling are only for temporary and not for permanent. The permanent thing is the effect of what they have done. Take the baby as an example. If the girl gets pregnant it is either she aborts the child or she gives it to somebody else. But of course, abortion is not going to be the answer for a gazillion years and giving the baby to somebody else is not quite possible because the parents will know that she has a baby with the boy. The best answer would be to tell the parents and raise the baby. Supposedly the parents already accepted what happened, but how will the girl and the boy raise the child if both of them do not have any money and any work? Is not it a big problem?

Love could be misinterpreted sometimes and interpreting it wrong could be lethal. Just like sex, sex can be the best thing that could happen in one’s life, but it can also be the worst thing that can destroy one’s life.