Sushmita K. - Teaching

Inever thought that I would be teaching a class as a senior in high school. My teaching experience has been incredible and I think I learned as much from the class as the students did. Here are some of the many things I learned teaching an adult education class at WRCC.

When I was first offered the opportunity to teach an adult education class on technology, I thought it would be a great experience. I knew it would look good on my resume. I knew that I would probably learn a lot. However, I didn’t realize how much fun it would be. I never had to drag myself to class or felt like it was a dreadful thing. Before I would start class, especially for the first few times, I would get very nervous. But I began to really enjoy it and before long my anxiety about teaching went away.

Student reflection on teaching experience. Adult learning course on Electronic Devices, iPads, Androids at WRCCOne of the reasons I enjoyed my teaching experience so much was because of the great students I had. Let’s face it, in a high school class not everyone wants to be there and it usually shows. This was definitely not true with my students. They all wanted to be there.

Just because the students were great and the teaching experience was fun, doesn’t mean it was easy. Each one of my students (it still feels funny to call people “my students”) had a different level of experience, different uses, and different things they wanted to learn. This made it very hard to try and get everyone on the same pa