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Did I overteach my own student?
Hi i’m a young tutor of my uni english club, I regularly joins english competition and have got 3rd place for several times (both national and international level), and recently I joined a local competition with my student where we’ve been training quite intense and we also get to the final round and after the competition end they announced that my student got the 2nd place (it was her/his first time on that competition field) meanwhile I didn’t get any. I’m in a situation where I think I teached him/her “too much knowledge” and forgot that she’s also my competitor on that competition. I am actually proud that I’ve created this winner but at the same time I almost feel awkward with my other student who knows that my student surpass me. Do you think it’s wrong to tag my student along with me in a same competition where we compete?
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This is a reality in life that tends to boggle the mind or put a persons thoughts into a tangled mess. I will start with how I can relate, the child or the student in this case, is naturally most likely to do even better than the parent or teacher. I don't know all the whys of how this is the case over and over but I can see in by looking at my past and current life. I have exceeded my mother as a person and overcome anxieties and other things. As a mother I was about the same. Now my youngest daughter has a 2 year old and I see her doing many things way better than I ever did as a Mom, the Dad is also way better. Teaching as a parent or as a teacher in any type of learning establishment has also changed and improved in many ways. Things that were taught in baby books to my mom were not considered good anymore when I became a Mom and my daughter has the newest of lessons from her Daycare job to use on her own child. So this child is learning to talk instead of go into fits of crying. So it is not simply success based on your teaching, but what the societal norms are. What was expected of me in 1st grade, they now have Kindergartners doing. If it is deemed in testing that kids are more capable of a higher level in any area, then they tend to raise the bar, so to speak and what they expect of a student.
I can't say whether its right or wrong to take a student along but if they want to compete, they will still be there on their own, even if they didn't come with you, right?
You need to look at this more scientifically than emotionally. If your student did the same as you, a tie,, then you would know you did a good job and they are as good as you because of you.
But what if they did not do as well. Does it mean you all of a sudden didn't teach well with them, or that you taught them great but their mind wasn't able to grasp some concepts as easily as you. So what would that line of thinking look like for a student better than you? Either you did a bad job of teaching just this one person or maybe this person has a greater brain ability on some of the concepts than you. These may be areas you are aware of that you need work on or perhaps you are unaware there was any problem. Lastly, sometimes if two people in equal standing brainwise, are tested, it depends on what the questions, or prokblems or steps you have to solve are. A different set of questions may have meant you got second place. If you can learn to simply be proud no matter if you never get out of third place, then it doesn't matter, as long as your students are excelling, you know you are doing something right.
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