For this term, I have chosen organization behavior and management, investment

I was too proud and would be too embarrassed to say I made a mistake in choosing the subject. By that time, it was also too late to find a replacement. We were given our load a day or two before classes open. So I thought about the whole thing....... I am capable of learning. This is not the first time I would teach a new subject..... which would explain my varied repertoire. But I never taught a pure mathematics subject albeit myself being an engineer. It's an exact science with a definitive solution. I hate studying such techniques. I'd rather stray in an area of study where there is free range. While I handled finance subjects before, it is more on the analysis of results, not arriving at the results.
Then again, here I am confronted with an alternative without any real choice. I took it ........ like a man and ready myself for a long term ahead. I asked my co-professor-friends for materials. I actually had a headstart because I handled business finance in the previous term and some of the topics were already covered, a fourth of it, I think. It doesn't help that I have very limited time to study for a new subject because of work.
I did my usual routine in school and it's been about six weeks since classes started. Surprisingly, I am able to cope even if I was studying my subject matter just before I teach it in class. I am glad i accepted this challenge because I am afforded the opportunity to confront my fear of the unknown. Had I backed out, I would have missed out on this rare chance to really learn what I was supposed to learn in my younger years and widen my horizon in the process. Quantitative methods can now be added to my repertoire.
Later today, I would teach my class the graphical solution to linear programming........ sounds fancy.......... not really.......
PS: Si Manong Bus Driver ay isang bayani talaga para sa kin. Kaninang umaga, nagtext sa kin na nakita daw niya ang anak kong bunso sa eskwelahan at kung gusto ko daw iservice niya. Ang buong akala ko kasi pahinga siya tuwing bakasyon ng summer kaya ni hindi ko na siya tinanong kung pwede niya ihatid ang anak ko kahit nung pinoproblema ko pa sino maghahatid sa anak ko. Syempre ay pumayag ako matapos namin mapag-usapan ang presyo na lalabas din na mas mura kesa ipahatid namin sa alalay ng biyenan ko ang anak ko. Bukod pa rito, mas kampante ako na ligtas ang anak ko sa sakuna at sa mga elemento ng kalikasan pag ke Manong siya nakasakay. Salamat muli, Manong!
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Ang tindi ng mga subjects na tinuturo mo Amor, all of those not within my range. But I admire your audacity to venture into fields that less interest you. Good luck for another fruitful schoolyear.
Thanks so much for the kind words Dfish. Ibig sabihin beterana na hehehe.... Well, we all have our own niches. I found mine in teaching. I have always been in awe of doctors. I look up to those of you in that profession in a messianic kind of way being saviors of human life. Dfish ba is really Doc Fish :)
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