With Love,

~January 7, 2021

It is okay to feel both scared and excited for the changes coming your way. This is the part of your journey where you get to reflect on all the valuable lessons that past stage has taught you. Don’t let small tests to draw you back; don’t let them block your entrance to the next phase.

Now you believe you deserve all the magical things you dream of, be fearless in chasing them. Your story is getting started. And never forget, do all things with love and passion. Teach with love, learn with love, experience with love… Finally do all the things that make your heart happy.

My teacher used to tell me…

When I was in school, my English teacher used to always tell me that: “No one is perfect, that’s why pencils have erasers”, every time I used to get upset when my English work didn’t go the way I wanted it to be. She used to always tell me that it is okay! No one is perfect, if everyone’s writing is perfect, then why would pencils have an eraser?! Ever since then I can never forget this sentence, it helped through my life. I can see now that it’s okay not to be perfect, I may mess things in my life, I cannot go back in time and not do them but I can correct as much as I can.

Teachers can influence young minds in many ways! 

Why Traditional Classes Instead of Online?

I see that the traditional classes are better than online classes in many aspects. The traditional classes hold many characteristics that lack in the online classes, including that it helps the teacher and students to know more each other and interact together. In addition to growing interpersonal relationships and face to face interactions that usually lack in online classes. Students be more actively learning in traditional classes, also they become more disciplined and learn to follow a certain schedule, rules and regulations. All these and many others are crucial for students across all levels, for developing skills that they will use later in their lives. 

Despite all of this, one should never ignore also all the advantages and positive impact of online learning that we had to shift to after the pandemic virus. 

Online Learning

If you go back in time, most of us used to think that online learning would have been much better and easier than the traditional courses. But no one imagined that we will reach the time that we, for real, start learning online. It wasn’t the way most people expected it would be, simply because we are not qualified enough for this online learning, starting from the bad internet connection to many other problems that most of us know by now. In addition to that, everything new to all in online learning holds some difficulties and fear for both students and teachers, especially for those teachers who are not practiced and qualified enough for teaching online.

An Important Skill for a Science/Biology Teacher

Teaching Science or Biology holds many challenges especially for the students who are not interested in the subject. One of the most important skills for a teacher to have is to involve students in learning. Being a teacher doesn’t recommend for you to do all the work, let your students be involved in the learning process. For example, if there is an experiment to be done, as a teacher do not do all the work, let some students volunteer and help you, of course while taking all the safety measures. By this, the class will be more interesting for all students, especially for those who dislike the subject, and they learn better by being on task and engaged.