By Ruthi | June 1, 2008

Keeping Up with my Students

Keeping up with my students’ energy is both draining and exciting. Their enthusiasm for doing the unknown is both infectious and exhausting. Their eagerness to learn new things is both remarkable and stimulating. These are few of the things I learned from my students.
Keeping up with my students, I needed a strategy – lots of […]

By Ruthi | May 31, 2008

Envy

I enjoyed doing things with my students. Their non- condescending mind-set gave me a break from prejudice and unfair judgment from the cruel world. My students gave me a new sense of confidence in what I do. And I loved to hear their laughter – so unpretentious.
But there were also times that I become impatient of […]

By Ruthi | May 25, 2008

The Lessons I Learned from My Students

I know from experience how hard it is to deal with kids. I am not yet a mother. But still I am more qualified to say the least that kids are hard to deal with. I deal with them for 12 long years.
As I have mentioned before I was a former teacher. I taught high […]

By Ruthi | May 22, 2008

My Students are Smarter than Me

I am a teacher by profession. I have been in the teaching profession for more than a decade. It was the most productive stage in my life. And as a teacher, I realized that sometimes my students are smarter than me. [Hmmm… maybe we could come up with a new game show as a counter […]

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