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Too young to teach?

Yesterday morning, as I was preparing the class to begin on their SA2 revision, I gave them 5 minutes to go through the questions and ask me for the definition of any word. Unsurprisingly, the kids started flipping through their papers relentlessly and bombarded me with as many words as they could. I explained most words off memory - queasy, vast, monotonous, etc  - but then came the words gosling  and fledgling , which I didn't know the meanings to. So I whipped out my dictionary, like I always do when I encounter an unfamiliar word, and searched for the meanings when one of my students commented: " Teacher don't know because teacher too young to teach. " And I thought to myself: Am I? ~~~~~~~~~~ I've been teaching since I completed my A levels in 2011. I signed up at various online private tuition agencies and took up assignments that were within my capabilities. My first student was a Sec 3 boy whose parents had forced him to enter the Expres...