My experience as a teacher in OOIS

Teaching was my fourth job. My experiences in teaching was very different until i joined OOIS. I had never thought it to be a work - but as a hobby. Because earlier I was a tuition teacher and then as a faculty - Online education. So all i knew about teaching was only to make student understand the concept with easy examples so that they can apply it somewhere.

Personally, when i was a student, i remember my distracted mind. So to prevent that, i realized only a visualized understanding would help students understand better. Generally minds visualize everything, apart from studies :)

Powerpoints helped me to overcome distracted minds in my class.

CBSE education was so hard to me till the time I joined OOIS. I don't know actually if I could do accounts for them. But if I could do Economics, certainly i should be able to do accounts too. And I was a teacher for grade xi and xii for the subjects Economics and Business Studies.

On day 1 when we had the teacher's meeting - my supervisor said - teachers are not dictionaries, but they are humans. They may not know everything and incase if it happens for the students to ask something which the teachers are not aware off - She asked the teachers to mention that it would be refered and the doubts will be cleared later.

Teaching being a new profession, I had to work really hard for it. i read twice or thrice the same chapter to understand and derive examples out of it. I start reading the chapter as i sit in the bus in the evening, then prepare powerpoints in the night and early in the morning i read again for my class. I remember sleeping for 3 - 4 hours a day as a new teacher. Week ends; though it was two days, the mornings i seemed to be my husband's wife, and as a teacher for another 10 hours when my husband goes to sleep. I was lucky enough for my husband's habit of sleeping for long hours.

Additional work at school like preparing bulletin boards, files arranagement rather added my pressure towards work. The fact that i need more time as a new teacher for preparation was not considered. I was treated on par with all other teachers.

Infact i was very sincere, as a teacher than my previous jobs - as this profession involued students (they have a life - which they had given it to me - i felt myself being responsible for it). Still it was too taxing - yet to see their pretty faces i forgot my pains. (I saw myself as a sister to them).

I get feedback from my students once in every fortnight to see if i had to change my approach towards teaching. At the end of every working day I felt satisfied and tired to the core. If i had done this in any of my previous jobs, it is sure that i would have given a promotion.

Periodic tests also proved their understanding level. It was pretty good. The supervisor told that she could see me working hard. I was happy enough. Infact two other schools periodically called me to join them and i denied them as i was a teacher here.

Suddenly there was a panel interview, a 20 minutes interview with 4 people with various range of questions. To my knowledge I had done well . For my surprise i was said, that i had to quit the school as i was told that i did not clear my interview after working there for a month with good performances.

There is nothing much to worry - beacuse my work did not correspond to my salary over there. But the fact that i lost my continuity in teaching made me feel bad. And the why factor - has made me feel so depressed.

While on the other side - I gained the love of 52 students . I was somebody - may be a change agent...

Its not that simple to change ourselves. And its highly impossible to change others. Its takes years to change ourselves and it takes a lifetime to change someone else... But if i could change few of them in a month....

Its awesome.... I realized why a teacher is prasied from time immemorial.... A Teacher is somebody great.....

The profession of a teacher is so great.....

The Fun of shopping!!!

In India, I had never felt like what i'm feeling now!!!

Shopping used to be kind of a rare occasion! It had so many other reasons, I was a child then (seen as a child even at the age of 25). one of the favourite pass time is shopping. we had so many realtives and friends coming to our home, and we are ususally used to it.

So shopping was done like 4 times a year or so .... I started to buy more dresses when i started to earn .... but even that time it was not more than 6 times a year.

The other household goods, my mother herself buys it. In my aunt's place, she does it, sometimes i'll be a helper in buying vegetables. I was still a grown up student, even at the time when i started to earn ... My daily routine would be getting up, stay sometime in kitchen, getting ready for office, some 8 hours in office, back to home .... some time listening to kids activities, and then to bed. (worryless life)

Life in Dubai is what i would have never imagined earlier, "Dubai life"....
Here we don't have anybody worth enough to rely, to accept and to trust(except spouses). We make new friends, on mutual understandings, very comfortable life with everything readymade and life here starts, lives and go on only with shopping and shopping malls, along with work and responsibilities.

I wonder when people turn to be so caring after their long visit to foriegn countries. The hidden reason is they realize the importance human care and love.

Shopping is the only entertainment here. Shopping malls - "a mesmorizing place". You will go there with your small list (which would be like an odd one out) and while you return, there would be atleast 10 more things, which u don't know if you really need it. You go again for shopping to buy things for your kith and kin.... The week starts with shopping and ends with shopping and shopping malls.... You wonder why i bought all this at the time of bill....New, clean, attractive products.... that gives comfort.... will be in your home.....
And that keeps coming more and more.... And you realize that you have bought really too much when you pack things for home.....
The fun of shopping was more, when it was done just 4 times a year, or six times a year and it is less when it is done for 3 times a week.




You will feel - why i bought so much only at the time when you pack things to move home.....