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Computer Aided Learning in Organon – Lessons learnt is past decade

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. Computers – from a luxury to a hardcore necessity, they are now our friends, enemy, companion and what not! The IT has revolutionised how we perceive and execute things. This piece of information – “Computer Aided Learning in Organon” was presented a DECADE back! (April 2011). Now If I look back to the future, I feel a lot has been…

As I have mentioned before, I have Cerebral Palsy (spastic diplegia). I also have some mental health disabilities, generalized anxiety disorder being the main one. I am also a teacher in two capacities : I teach beginning French at my former university to undergraduate students, and I teach French online to kids between 5 and 13. I will talk more about being a disabled teacher more in a separate post. 

I have always loved school, and I admired my teachers a lot growing up. I remember playing school with my childhood friend, except she was always the teacher. I don’t remember how old I was when my mom started saying I’d be a good teacher. I began studying French in high school and fell in love with it, then continued in college. I admired my college French professors as well. I did lots of volunteer and internship work in French immersion kids classes in college. I don’t think I seriously said to myself, “Okay, I want to teach French” until I was at the end of my time as an undergraduate. My relationship with French is similar to how a kite flies - I know I’m in control of it, but it also feels like I am simultaneously being pulled along on an adventure. 

After I graduated (and travelled to France for three weeks in summer 2016!) I applied to a program where I would teach English in France for 6 months. I got accepted, but declined after much thought because I was not ready for such a big jump. I’d never even lived on my own in the U.S before, let alone another country. I ended up applying to the Masters in French program at my university, and I got accepted. Around that time (spring to fall 2017), I began experiencing some severe anxiety and OCD. As a graduate student, I was supposed to start teaching and attending my own classes. I did it for two weeks but then could not keep up because my mental and physical health were struggling. I ended up having to change my schedule and not teach that year, while only taking one class. I am so incredibly grateful to my professors who saw that I was struggling and helped me stay in the MA program. I told them I needed to be in school, to give my mind something else to focus on. I’m not lying when I say that school saved my mental health and helped it immensely. 

The following year (my second year in the MA program, fall 2018 to spring 2019) I felt much better and ready to tackle the challenges of teaching and studying all at once. In late 2019, I got a job with an organization that teaches French to people of all ages in my city. That job went online in 2020 because of the pandemic. I graduated with my MA in spring 2020, and was hired by my former university this fall, this time as an adjunct professor! I originally said I wanted to only teach college French, but now I have realized that I enjoy teaching all ages. I can’t believe I have my dream job! I have gotten these opportunities with a lot of hard work, but also without a lot of previous experience. For example, I did not go to school to study education, but now I teach for a living.