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.....