You can never know your ability or rate until someone challenges you. Some people will think they know it all but when they see or compete with their superior, that's the time they come to realize and know the position or class they belong.
Though, I'm one that always welcome challenges in life, this short story was the time I was in service (NYSC). I was talking my student mathematics, agriculture, biology, economics, and basic science.
You can wonder how I managed to take all those subjects? it just because my PPA (Place of Primary Assignment) didn't pay me any money as its public school, so by this I had to earn more money to support myself as I can't depend on the Government allowance.
I was appointed to the new school as agreed by the principal to be coming twice in a week and do my best to satisfy and fill the gap for the Students, I chose it as my second PPA (Place of Primary Assignment )so, I go there twice a week and my first PPA twice as well. Though it wasn't easy to run two schools together, it almost cause big fight between me and my principal in my first school because I don't come there daily again, later I was issued query letter, Gosh! That was too harsh on me!
So on this beautiful day, I entered into the class with boldness to teach mathematics, I'm to teach construction as a topic, it a topic I like but I think the student intelligent disorganized me and maybe too much of confidence, and so I don't practice. As I was talking them, doing the workings on the board with examples in the textbook, suddenly, the student in front seat stood up and walked toward the board to asked me if we can use another method to solve it? (I was the one that arrange the seating in the classroom, to make the brilliant ones seat at the front) But I said "No" Smile... He picked the marker and solved it with another method... Wow! I was shocked, as if that was not enough, this same student again asked me to construct a question from the text book for him to understand more. It was at this moment I knew I will fuck up if I should start anything on the board because the question he said I should construct required some workings of which i never prepared for on that day and to be candid he has disorganized me for that day. I had to tell him based on the knowledge I had in school back then, that whenever student asks question, and we can't give answer, we shouldn't shout at such student, we can stylishly use the question to set assignment.
Eventually, that's what I did to save my integrity and myself. Ever since then, I always prepare extra if I want to teach, even if it happens to be A-Z.
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