On BEiNg TaUghT By StuDenTS.....

The best teachers are the teachers themselves. For me, I will learn more if teachers or the professionals will be the one to teach me. They know more about different things happening in our society and surroundings. They are more knowledgable because it is their passion and responsibility to teach us. They are more experienced on how to make their students understand their lessons well. They know different teaching techniques on how to make the topics they are going to discuss interesting so that students will really listen carefully on what are being discuss and really learn from A-Z so that during exams they will not get a failing grade.

Last February, the University of the Philippines had its own "Know Your School Day". It is the day where the students who are deserving, worthy, and responsible will have the chance to handle things which are just meant to be done by their teachers. Students had the chance to be the principal, assistant principal, guidance counselor, clerk, and subject teachers. Students had the chance to experience how it felt to be a teacher for a short period of time. They had the oppurtunity to be respected by their classmates which are now their students. A chance to experience how tiring it is to handle a class of more than 32 personalities. A chance to experince how stress a teacher is.

I am one of the students who applied for a subject student teacher. I applied for a SOCSCI teacher together with my 3 fellow claassmates namely, Sunshine, Eldee, and Christine N. As what I have experienced, being a teacher is really tiresome but at the same time fun. We exchange jokes with my fellow classmates which were already my students.

Even if I applied for a student teacher I had also experienced on how it feels to be taught by someone like you, a student. I experienced being taught by Michael and Jann. They applied for the subject Calculus. And I bet, they were really good, I understand them very well. But I cannot deny that it was so unusual to be taught by your fellow classmate even for just a short period of time. I felt that I missed my teachers, teachers who used to teach me those lessons. But in the end, all I can say that being taught by students is not that boring as what I have thought. Instead, the experience on being taught by students was fun and exciting.