This year, I choose to be a teacher for a little child. He is a student in Grade 3. So, he need someone help him review during weekends. It is a good volunteer work for me.
On March and April, I went to the child’s home every Saturday or Sunday. He lives less far from my home. I always took bus early.
Before I did this work, I thought it is easy to teach a kid. However, I know it also difficult after I taught one time. I taught the student Chinese and English mainly, and taught Maths sometimes. Because he is a child, so I need to made him feel study is a interesting thing. For example, I said some history stories when I taught Chinese idioms. The student’s mother told me, English is a most important lesson for him. This student began to learning English formally this year. She want me taught slowly from simple words. One day, I felt play game will help child remember words quickly when I taught him the color’s English names. First, made different color-papers, wrote the names on back. Then, gave him the papers one by one, he should called the right name for each one in 2 minutes. If he did excellent, I’ll take him to play games outside after class.
Teach Maths is not the work in plan. However, I saw the student’s math was not very good. So, I taught his Math in free time. Because my experience, I think do some questions and find the solving ways is a better idea than do too many questions. I found some questions from his test books be examples, and taught him how to solving this kind of questions. Luckily, the student also like this way to study Math. After some days, His mother asked me to teach Math, too.
During this experience, I realized be a teacher is a more difficult job than my thought before. I should have a good teaching way that help child turns better. If I just know how to solve questions, but can not teach the child, it is not useful. Because this volunteer work, I used my free time adequately. Teaching children made me be more patient, too.
On March and April, I went to the child’s home every Saturday or Sunday. He lives less far from my home. I always took bus early.
Before I did this work, I thought it is easy to teach a kid. However, I know it also difficult after I taught one time. I taught the student Chinese and English mainly, and taught Maths sometimes. Because he is a child, so I need to made him feel study is a interesting thing. For example, I said some history stories when I taught Chinese idioms. The student’s mother told me, English is a most important lesson for him. This student began to learning English formally this year. She want me taught slowly from simple words. One day, I felt play game will help child remember words quickly when I taught him the color’s English names. First, made different color-papers, wrote the names on back. Then, gave him the papers one by one, he should called the right name for each one in 2 minutes. If he did excellent, I’ll take him to play games outside after class.
Teach Maths is not the work in plan. However, I saw the student’s math was not very good. So, I taught his Math in free time. Because my experience, I think do some questions and find the solving ways is a better idea than do too many questions. I found some questions from his test books be examples, and taught him how to solving this kind of questions. Luckily, the student also like this way to study Math. After some days, His mother asked me to teach Math, too.
During this experience, I realized be a teacher is a more difficult job than my thought before. I should have a good teaching way that help child turns better. If I just know how to solve questions, but can not teach the child, it is not useful. Because this volunteer work, I used my free time adequately. Teaching children made me be more patient, too.
