Paying such an outrageous amount of money for this tutorial is some kind of big deal , the students preparing for WAEC and JAMB said amongst themselves. I will not just pay and fail for this exams so I will make sure I studied and use the incumbent text books during the lecture to see if what the teacher teaches is bladderdash just like the one I enrolled for earlier, a girl ,Morenikeji said discussing with another student named Steven. This discussion evolved around an hour to the lecture prompt.
Having to Hear this dialogue as they stood grouped beside my office, I just laughed and prepared ahead the class as the teacher , knowing it will be a bombardment class with questions and answers. Yes ,no man is an mountain of knowledge so I picked the past questions on my table and revisited them , also I scrolled through my phone to check on one or two confirmations as well. Normally, I don't usually go through past questions before any class , but today , preparation is called for . I said that to myself, knowing I shall have many new students who are optimistic in my class today.
It is just an hour before the lecture so I made use of my time judiciously. Now looking at my wrist watch and it is 4 o'clock pm already. I stood up and went to the classroom and entered .“Good evening class” , I greeted and they answered ,” good evening sir”. I introduced myself once more , complimented the new students and as I started the lectures that day , I wanted to start using a prerequisite method to teach first from the textbooks then go to the past questions for questions and answers from it but one of those students raised her hand and I asked and excused her then she said," sir, with due respect, we have learned all this prerequisite topics in school before coming here so , I believed we should all go straight up to the past questions for direct questioning and answering” she advised manipulatedly. So I soliloquizes in my mind saying,"People that want to wine and shame you will want to play you".
Yes,I expect them to put up this show to know if I am to teach them Bladderdash or not so I wanted to beat their imagination so fully convinced that It will be cool with the challenge so that they will know they have value for their money so I put the past questions through thorough check but before I dabble on to that, I asked the class general questions on prerequisite topics which all the students answered accurately which show they are all over mediocrity but comprises of brains and geniuses as students. Well there are scattered brained learners among the students too but due to the fact that most of the students want to learn , it makes me want to illustrated better.
As we kept attempting and breaking down the question down , I noticed those set of students as they kept looking through their textbooks and the back of their pass questions where corrections are done and quickly make use of their phones using AI questions and answers software applications to confirm the tougher questions and all our interactions and after one hour , the class ended.
Ending the class , I made a correctional statement to the students telling them that a man is not a mountain of knowledge and learning shouldn't not be one sided but the learner should also study on oneself to self developmental betterment.
The students later come front to me after the class and the same girl I confirmed earlier Morenikeji asked me by saying “ Sir , what are the printed text need for the forthcoming exams” she leaded a group of students towards my direction and after I have answer them by listing all necessary books for them . She then say that she is contented for confirming here that the lecture isn't Bladderdash as she thought.
So I used the opportunity to asked them if they enjoy the lesson and comprehend something from the lectures and they all said , “ we have value for our money master” and I wondered what Bladderdash might be exposed around the vicinity revolving so many things like the unknown teacher that was lambasted for the mistake he didn't even knew he did. Maybe or maybe not. So many Bladderdash evolved the life we leave in now, I concluded.
I walked out of the classroom nodding my head,I picked up my textbook and pass questions knowing that today's challenge is subdue and all climax and conflicts are resolved. Good to see and sound to hear the new student's Bladderdash was digested by themselves with competency they confirmed here.
Being an educator entails many challenges during the performance of the job; one has to deal with many personalities who each expect something different from each educator. Your class was satisfied with the teaching after a rough start.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Good day.
Thanks for the comment and compliment sir. Have a great week as it is going to an end.
Hello @oyebolu,
Thank you for sharing this experience with us. It is certainly challenging for a teacher to face a new group of students. It seems they are always testing the teacher.
We would like to point out that the prompt word is 'balderdash. It seems you mistook it for bladderdash. Also, we would like to suggest in the future that you edit your stories more carefully. Google docs or Grammerly (just for punctuation and grammar) might be helpful.
Hope these suggestions are useful to you as you develop your writing skills.
Noted.
In this situation, one has to study harder or further just to beat the students' questioning.
Yes you are right. Thanks for the comment and compliment.
Remain blessed and I also support @stone4 on this one.
Teaching is a complex job. Some students will intentionally want to challenge you and if you are not smart enough, you wound be shamed greatly.
Yes you are right from that perspective. Thanks for the comment and reading through.
I really appreciate that.
If I was also the one in your shoe, I will have walked out in anger
Thanks for the view. I really appreciate your perspectives.
Greetings.