Today I, Liisa, write about my new profession: Teacher🙈.
First of all... I admire all the teachers who do this important and demanding job. Having that patience with the kids, all the pre and post processing of a lesson, coming up with ideas for new projects, the difficult work with the difficult parents😜 and much more... I really admire that.
Our school in Switzerland was and is so great. They supported our project from the beginning. I received almost all school material from them. After that I read up on the different subjects in German, Math and English. Our sons are in 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade. I'm sure that helps that they all have similar topics in German. I am teaching our youngest to read and write right now. That is certainly almost the most challenging.
Back home in Switzerland, many people asked me about homeschooling, and I always said it would work out. I was very optimistic. Now after almost 2 months I can say that I have learned a lot: teaching a child something takes time, patience and I had to open my eyes for the new approaches of the new school material. But then when the boys understand something new and successfully master exercises in it, that is already a very cool experience. They keep discovering new things and their knowledge increases day by day.
Besides school, they write diary every day, which will be something cool for them later. We integrate nature, people and society into our everyday life: we go to different museums, look at historical buildings, visit temples and churches, take them through the different religions, etc.
The most challenging thing for me is that I don't always look at our kids through the teacher lens. They are my kids and I am teaching them a lot this year. There are also difficult lessons, for example, when no one is in the mood. Then all three of them are quickly unmotivated... But that's just it. We have time and we learn differently than in the classroom.
The boys think it's okay that I teach them. But we can talk about it quite well if they find school boring, difficult or something. Then we talk about it, and I mainly try to make (me) or even the lesson different.
What I do know, however, is that even though there is a big shortage of teachers, I will not change my profession. I love it too much for that... 💪🏼😜
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