Before I talk about my teaching experience, just want to say...I think I like Justin Bieber's vocals! hahaha...at first when i heard this name, it sounded like it belonged to an old man hehe. But when I came across this video above, wow I was delighted at his vocals. The way he changes his pitches, its beautiful~ never thought I would like his singing haha. Guess this guitar coupled with his voice is one of my kind of favourite^^ Listen!
Moving on, I chose to write about my teachin experience cos I was thinking maybe some of you would want to know how my experience is like. As quite some of you would know I'm teaching 3-4year olds ballet lessons at a centre for a few hours every week. I've scaled down to about 1 hour from this month onwards for A levels. So I'm gonna tell you (hopefully) interesting things bout my teaching experience.
It feels very relaxing and enjoyable to teach these cute cute children ballet really cos of my passion for ballet. But I'm not saying that its without worries la cos there are problems like to take care of their safety which is not as easy as it sounds haha. Especially now in my class I have max attendance of 8 girls and for some reason they LIKE to scream. And if one screams, others follow and most of them are influenced by each other's actions. Do you know in ballet, there's always a metal bar for basic exercises? They like to climb on it and by doing that, they are very prone to injuries cos they are still young, and well, short:D AND, the hard part is when they don't listen and also when once I turn my back, they start to climb and run and get hurt. One interesting and cool fact is that I help almost all of them to blow their noses because at one time or another, they get runny noses and one girl even purposely kept on blowing her nose frequently during the lesson for a period of time HAHAHA. Essentially they're all nice:)
At first in this class, it was about teaching them to share and encouraging them to be proud of themselves and their possessions. Then, it was about teaching them how to say nice things and be polite to each other. eg. to say sorry when u hurt someone. Then, its about teaching them to self-control since they're at the stage where its good to introduce this term.(did some homework by reading child development book haha) Doing these all while trying to make the lesson fun and ballet inspirational for them.
Now, I'm moving on to talk about the girls themselves!! I've said at the beginning that I've scaled down right? Now is just one class but I actually had 3 classes so I'm gonna talk about some girls from the 3 classes:) There's this girl AV* who was quite an encouragement to me when I first started teaching cos her mother one day told me she likes to hold my hand! aww so sweet~ that was actually quite a compliment and recognition to me at that time cos it meant that at least I was succeeding in teaching her haha. AV was always an obedient girl in class, ALWAYS. When others were running around, she would just laugh as if she could feel the fun they were having yet she would still stand there and do the whole dance. And she said she likes the ballet which is nice:)/ Then there's this girl CL who was not nice to her fellow ballet friends and at first she would be quite unfriendly. I didnt want to really raise my voice and scold her upside down..so I didnt. Then one day, she suddenly said, "I'm a bad girl." and I was taken by surprise so I talked to her, when I had the chance, and basically told her that I believed she is a good girl. Thank God that at least He used me to talk to her..wonderfully, she was much much happier and better! She would say sorry when she accidentally hurt someone and she would listen to me and do the dances and she would just become such a nice girl that I was glad! Don't know if the staff talked to her parents though. Now since she has graduated from this class, I'm gonna miss her man. I'm gonna miss 'em all!
From the 2 classes which has just graduated from this grade, I have so many 'guai' girls who are so adorable but of course I love them all and I'm glad I got to practise one of God's word; to not show favouritism. To make sure no one is lagging behind. ehh come to think of that maybe bcos of this, I come to embrace more of God's Word(Bible)! yayyy. ok anywayy, oh I also have a girl who's from my Church! She was carried in her father's arms who approached me when I was having lunchig one day in Church. At first, I didn't notice their face so I stared at them. Then I recognised and was pleasantly surprised. oh and across the classes, it was also a pleasant surprise to see the potential and talent in quite many of the girls as they do their dances! Its like, I'll smile and sometimes imagine how they will do when they grow up. I do hope I get to accompany my current class to the future.
All in all, I would say it is a great job haha. And its gonna be better~ hope God'll use me more in future.
p.s. turkish delight rocks hahaha
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