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| Pretty sky & futsal ground of The Royal Academy |
Like somebody said in the session, the biggest achievement is being selected to come here. This by far is the biggest achievement in my professional journey. The second and very important one is the way I look at things. I realize how narrow my thinking were on every subject. The idea that I thought right were challenged and made to look from different perspective which resulted in realizing how "inside the box" my thinking were. It opened a gateway to different dimension of thinking about my thoughts.
The striking result of this is the way I look at my own profession. I am glad for this as everything will start from the way I understand my profession. From the very young age I was taught professionally and socially that a teacher is someone who teaches, who is the "holder of knowledge", is right every time, and is done learning and all she/he need to do is teach. Teachers were just transferring their thoughts to the student by teaching what they think. The students were viewed as empty shell with no or very little pre-knowledge. Even though I experienced teaching for only six months, I was very naïve in thinking I was all those characteristics and being proud. If you are a teacher, look back and compared these characteristic to the one you had. If it is similar, then lets go on a discovering adventure together.
However, this changed by the end of first week here. Teacher's job has been and will be that of a helper rather than teaching. All the information and the knowledge that we know is readily available to our learners. So it is our job to help them in what to do with these information. I stopped calling my self a teacher, as it does not justify with all the kinds of work a teacher does, instead I would like to be called as a helper. A helper who is able to make each one of her student into a ACTIVE lifelong learner.
