Teaching is Learning

Being a teacher is very rewarding. I get inner satisfaction and external validation. In addition, I get to learn more as I teach.   I certainly learn more about issues that I teach. However, I also learn about myself as a teacher and about my students. My interactions with students and fellow teachers teach me many things too. I have realized that I follow facilitation style of teaching, and thus have an eye for student’s behaviour and learning styles as well. I tend to discuss this with my fellow faculty time to time. A visibly upset faculty colleague walked abruptly in my room yesterday. Certain student in the class had diagonally opposite views about the various points of discussion, and that resulted in unpleasant discussion. We spend some time together over tea and discussed things about students, teachers, and student-teacher interactions.   This note is a reflection of my thoughts during and after the interaction. Every year we get different students. They differ in man...

Being a teacher is very rewarding. I get inner satisfaction and external validation. In addition, I get to learn more as I teach.   I certainly learn more about issues that I teach. However, I also learn about myself as a teacher and about my students. My interactions with students and fellow teachers teach me many things too. I have realized that I follow facilitation style of teaching, and thus have an eye for student’s behaviour and learning styles as well. I tend to discuss this with my fellow faculty time to time. A visibly upset faculty colleague walked abruptly in my room yesterday. Certain student in the class had diagonally opposite views about the various points of discussion, and that resulted in unpleasant discussion. We spend some time together over tea and discussed things about students, teachers, and student-teacher interactions.   This note is a reflection of my thoughts during and after the interaction. Every year we get different students. They differ in ma...