Teaching Experience Over the Pandemic

 Hi Everyone! It is me Sudiksha Budhrani and I am back with some interesting stories to share. During the holidays, I was completing my final project assignments for various of my classes such as Writing Fundamentals, Academic English 1, Introduction to Sociology, Public Speaking and Photography and Videography class. I also had some spare time which I have used to teach children. I first taught my cousins so the sons of my moms sister's children and they seemed to really enjoy it. They then told their friends and the guy below is their friend. I taught them how to use Canva so how to make creative Powerpoint, videos, birthday cards and many more. Other than that I also taught them Web Designing and how to make a blog using Wix, something I honestly discovered during Writing Fundamentals Class.

That is a picture of me teaching the boy on Zoom how to use Canva.

I allowed the boy to pic his powerpoint template based on his creativity and he choose this template. I thought him how to add elements, change the font, change the background colour and add some animation effects. I also asked him wether her enjoyed the class today and he said yes. The boy was quiet at first because his microphone was muted, however after some time he unmuted his microphone and started asking questions. He called me teacher and I somewhat felt old, however the respect was a different experience and it kind of felt good to be honest. The child was very fun to teach and enthusiastic, I taught him how to do powerpoint and he asked wether he could play around and try to make presentation for his homework. I said sure, go ahead. He asked wether he could make posters related to New Year's and Christmas, I said why not. Feel free to try now that you know how to use Canva. I think it was honestly a different experience for me, because I have noticed that Singaporean children are smarter and more eager to learn as compared to Indonesian children which are somewhat pampered in my opinion. To be honest, I was surprised that this boy was 7 years old and only in Primary 2 and he wanted to learn all this, not to forget he was also a fast learner. I hope that he can maybe use this skills for school or even his business in the future. I never realised that I could actually be a teacher if I put in effort. Making class plans actually take so much time. I really appreciate all those teachers that have been there for me the past years.