My hobby

In the new time table two of my maths classes were given to other teacher. In replacement I was given two new classes that in terms of ranking are better than the previous two. By right I should be overjoyed but I'm not that excited. In the one month I had been teaching the classes I have build rapport with the students. Always reminding them to think about ten, twenty years from now what are they going to ride. An old Honda motorbike or a Honda Accord, it all depend on how much they are focussing in class. I stopped by one of my old class to return exercise books and they were asking me to teach them back. It's not as easy as that. Life has to go on.

I taught my two new classes today for the first time and it looks like they are hooked. Slowly I guided them until they come out with the formula of sum of interior angles for any polygons, instead of just giving the formula straight to them. When students are guided into the process of 'why', they don't have to memorize the 'what' because they understand how they formula was developed in the first place. There were much excitement as I gave them from 10 seconds going down to five seconds to calculate the sum of interior angles for a few polygons. There was an air of easiness as I always put up spontaneous multiple choices questions for them to pick up which one is their preferred answer. An air of easiness as I always remind them it's ok to make mistakes as it is part and parcel of learning process. Those that got the right answer would clapped their hand in happiness. This is what I called learning environment. Students don't have feeling of fear or threatened.

No matter what is our job we must do it whole heartedly. A job is a burden is we don't like it but a job can turn into a hobby if we love it. So make the right choices.

May Allah bless us all.