"Learning is a partnership." Young teachers talk about their profession
On the eve of Teacher's Day, our colleagues, the editorial staff of the Super portal, talked to three young male teachers about the joys and difficulties of the teaching profession and everyday school life. How to speak the same language with students, how to cope with burnout and what a good teacher should be like - teachers of computer science, history and primary school told us.
Artem, 28 years old, computer science teacher
Learning is a partnership. If you don’t interest the student, he won’t gain knowledge. When I was a schoolboy, such partnerships didn’t exist. The teacher was perceived as a king and god, he was always right. But today, school is changing. It’s great when a child comes to my lesson and says that a problem can be solved differently. This liberates the students – they understand that their opinions are listened to.
Kirill, 29 years old, history teacher
The problem with being a teacher is that it is difficult for you to see the results. They are prolonged in time: how well you worked in the 5th grade will become clear in the 7th grade, when the student will use the knowledge you have laid down. My mission is to cultivate critical thinking and soft skills in children. How many dates does the average person remember after graduating from school? The abolition of serfdom, the baptism of Rus? It is not the dates that are important, but the ability to think, work with information, search for it, and analyze it. My task is to develop children's horizons and give them tools for using them. Where they will be used is not important. The main thing is that they are useful.
Kirill: 30 years old primary school teacher
Children are subtle psychologists, they feel the teacher's energy. But it is also important for a teacher to feel his students. I don't know how I do it. I don't work according to a manual, everything comes from within.
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