不知从何时起，我就变成Yoyo老师和Jojo老师.
我的桌面上贴着一张便签：
Be an Encouraging Teacher!!!
Never Give up Your Confidence in your Students!!!
这个假期起，带了一些学生，其中Emma, Jerome 和Luca一直都牵动着我的心情。
Emma和Jerome是两个即将赴新西兰的学生。细细数起，我们已经相处了5个礼拜。每个当老师的人最初的念头都想当学生的朋友，当贴心的学习伙伴。
I am no exception. Emma is come-of-age student, rebellious, puzzled, a bit cynical, creative and yearning for friendship and love. I was impressed by this lovely girl. She is energetic, having a considerate father and a favorable family background. I think she ought to be happy and cherish what she owns. It seems a general rule that those who haven’t experienced the bitter life, the ups and downs, the frustration fail to see how important it is to make efforts to attain what she wants. Besides, she is at a loss as to what she really wants. She never sees what others see. It’s good that she could remain modest and thoughtful despite her family wealth. Yet she can’t really take advantage of her brain and family resource to carve out a better future for herself. She was bothered by her friends who can’t be recognized by her parents, not knowing the best way to manage her own life is to strengthen her ability. Otherwise, she would end up as someone who is famous for her father’s money and then her husband’s money. Certainly, she has strong will in studying English, but the habit of having an easy and relaxed life blunts her willpower to study it positively. Caught between the rich spare time and the demanding or monotonous task of studying English, she is always in an unstable mood. I wish I could change her to be a more enterprising student, teaching her more to establish her foundation of English. However, it seems I alone can’t fulfill this dream. If she goes on like this, I am afraid we would achieve nothing after this session. That’s the last thing I want to see.
Jerome is a sweetest guy I have ever seen. He has good temper, cooperative and smart. Actually, he has a good command of English even thought he always denies this and reluctant to take the lesson to the benefit. Most often, I have to slow down the teaching pace in order to make Emma understand the points more clearly. Jerome seems perfect at ease with this. He doesn’t mind being made fun of and reviewing the language points he mastered again and again. That’s why I really like this guy, patient, considerate and always happy. But he also pissed me off by his laziness and reluctance to improve his English more effectively. Like Emma, he is a 19-year-old guy who fails to have a picture of the future, indifferent to the chance to sharpen his expertise. He is not certain either what he would learn and do in the future. A sense of pity breeds inside my heart when he shows the inactivity or passivity. I am concerned about his study and his developing, wishing he could have a wonderful life ahead.
Luca is the smartest boy I have ever seen. At the age of 16, he could have a point of his own in many issues, unaffected by others. He is arrogant, always in a position to challenge the answers and what he is not fully convinced. When I teach him, he is willing to respond to my questions, but unwilling to take them all. As he insists, he holds his own opinion. As the top student in the key high school of GZ (which is rated as the best foreign language school), he is sure to have his talents to accomplish this. But I am always annoyed by his laziness and liability to all kinds of tricks in studying English. No doubt, he would have a bright future, paved with flowers and applause. I hope so.
That’s my experience in being a teacher. Sometimes, I prefer mentor as my function in their study—being both teacher and friend. I could forever inspire them, motivate them to succeed and make progress. Perhaps I would easily sacrifice my tendency to be a strict and accomplished teacher for becoming a friendly study partner. Who knows! I now smell my teaching strategy wrong. This morning, I am too disappointed at E and J’s class performance. I almost blew my temper off. Then the class, for the first time during these months, became a dreadful scene.
I love them. Perhaps that’s the way to reduce my guilt for my little brother of whom I never succeed in being a responsible and helpful sister. I do miss him. Why I always to fail to do my job????????
Jojo, Yoyo, whatever I am called, I remain that YCC.