Uh. Community Service

So I finished my community service at Brooklyn Chinese-American Association. I was assigned to an elementary school and tutored the kids for the after-school program. It wasn’t fun indeed because kids were annoying. I was taking care of a 4th grade classs and the kids really annoyed me. Perhaps I don’t look old enough and they were not scared. I realized that it’s pretty hard to be a teacher. A teacher has to be really careful of what they say and what they do to students, as kids usually tend to seek for superior  authority – their parents- when they think they are threatened. Then they will believe the teacher is going to be in a trouble. Through this community service, except for having more hostility towards kids, I pretty much learnt how they think and how I should communicate with them. For example when kids asked me about homework, I was used to explain in my own sense and knowledge, which is bad, because the kids could never understand. So I learnt how to put myself into their shoes and tried to explain based on their understandings and perhaps taught them in a funnier way. Some of the kid were very smart and they understood quickly, while some just didn’t. In this case I sometimes asked the smarter kids to try to explain the questions to them. I believe this will train those kids in some ways since they did not just know how to solve math questions but they also knew how to use their knowledge to help the others and be more considerate.  In general I think this community service was not bad, at least I figured out how to get along with kids.