A Failure

I failed on my first day of class..

I admit that it was a bit chaotic then :D
Maybe I wasn't that too prepared to teach about that subject...
or I got another headache because I slept late again :D
or I was new in the craft of teaching...

I failed...
And I didn't reached my expectations and the expectations of my students on my first day of teaching...

I thought that day "Was teaching for me?"

The failure was eating me... But I can't let it do it to me again...
I have to do something... and that is to improve myself.

Fortunately, I met with my "Ate" for a "cup of coffee" (Yeah... I do have an "ate" = big sister... although I am the eldest :D) She's also a teacher ranging from kids to "kids" (ermmm.. for those who couldn't get it: "kids" = college).. I asked for tips to get the attention of the kids and she gave me many advices :D

I also remembered watching Bo Sanchez in the Kerygma Feast giving an example on how Swedish teachers teach their students by not giving them grades with errors in their papers but helping them know why they got the wrong answers and helping them to correct these wrong answers.

I learned so much that day :D and it is because I failed.
If I haven't failed or felt my failure... I'll be one of those teachers na boring... No life...

Every failure is a learning stone... and I'm learning to move forward after each failure...

There is one big difference between a winner and a loser... the answer: how to respond to failures.

If I have let myself be eaten by my failure.. By the next day, I will lose my passion for teaching... and I'll be more of a failure by then...
But I chose to be a winner: I chose to learn from this experience.

and I want my students also to learn this: If they want to get the highest grades from my class... they have to fail first... and learn from them...

Now don't get me wrong... I did not want them to get a grade of 5 to get a grade of 1. I want them to allow little failures into their lives... and process them... so when the exam comes... they know how to answer it correctly.

Also I don't want them to fail always... they have to learn also not to commit the same mistake twice :D

We have to know how to handle failures in our lives to be successful...

last words: Failure IS AN OPTION :D