My role as a teacher

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Hello

How I miss writing again like I did before! It’s been more than a year since I wrote my last post and then many things took up my time and I couldn’t do what I like so much again. I hope this is the first of many frequent posts, since right now I have many things to tell you.

After I graduated, other more interesting games began: practicing my profession, participating in development communities, even now I am co-organizer of a meetup about Python (the language of my loves) here in my city (later I will make a post and tell you a little about what we do). And on a personal level: living alone, gaining more responsibilities, learning to cook, among other challenges. But let’s not disperse, today I want to tell you a little about my role as a teacher, yes! Now I am also teaching at Remington University, distinguished for focusing on the flexibility it provides to its students while they work (“being able to study, being able to work” is its motto).

If I had to describe the demanding job of teaching in a single word it would be this: Challenging. Personally, I consider that the art of teaching is a very beautiful and venerable profession, since you have human beings at your disposal who expect the most accurate guidance and advice from you. You are a reference not only in your knowledge, but also in your behavior, the latter being very important. Since apart from transmitting knowledge, you must also transmit respect, and set an example with your actions and with your words.

Do things right

Since I was in high school about 8 years ago, I always felt great admiration for my teachers, although I also felt great frustration with others. In those moments I thought:

If at some point I become a teacher, I want to be one of those who are happy to listen to and attend their classes.

And without even planning it, to date I am teaching classes and I can say that I am fulfilling what I thought at that time (I wish one of my students would read me and comment, so you would believe me more hahaha). I have been teaching Linear Programming for a total of two months, which will always be remembered for being my first subject. Although it is a small course, it is a good start and I feel that the students learn the topics taught in a good way. It has been a pleasant experience although, at first I had to earn my place, because due to my age (I am 23 years old) it is a little easy for people to overestimate you. My point in favor is that I am not an “Academic Engineer”, nor do I want to be (at least not for now), on the contrary, I currently practice my profession in the work field and do what I like most: Develop software, both in backend and in frontend.

My job as a teacher is only one day as a lecture hour and that gives me the opportunity to enrich myself from both worlds, and it is also very cool that your teacher tells you current events and fashionable topics in the world of development (frameworks, paradigms, new languages ​​and things like that).

As I said before, I do not want to dedicate myself to academia for now, I feel that I am still very young, I have a lot to learn about the trade, however, I do not rule out the option, when I am an old man, full of gray hair and have learned a lot from doing, dedicating myself to transmitting and telling old anecdotes to my students, would be a nice end… Although it may not happen and I am an old man who is still dedicated to software engineering in any of its branches. I am not worried about the future, however right now it is nice to be a reference for other people and transmit a little of my knowledge to others.

A little advice

My advice to you is to share your knowledge in some way: Write on a blog, make tutorial videos, from time to time answer a question on Stack Overflow, share your projects on Github, Gitlab or on some collaborative development platform. It doesn’t matter how you do it, sharing what you know is a rewarding and enriching experience for everyone. But above all, never forget to have a learner mentality (I learned that in my new job!).

And that is what I wanted to tell you in this post, I hope the wait was worth it. I am going to write more often, I have some things I want to tell you and many more that I have learned in my new job (not only work things, but also personal things). See you then. See you soon!

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