Personal challenge

Pedro Jose Egea has 15 years of teaching experience. He has worked in several private and state schools. He is currently working at ALTAIR School as a tutor in 6th Grade Primary.

The interviewee told us that he had to change his way of doing things radically and for him it meant being overloaded and working long hours with the implementation of on-line teaching. There was no choice in the situation we were in. We had to change our role as teachers in a classroom to one of applying the new technologies, to try to make up for the deficiencies in the best possible way.

As a teaching professional, my main motivation was to enable my students to continue learning, although in that situation we all learned. I had to innovate in the way I taught the students and that also meant a personal challenge that I ended up overcoming. I have improved my digital training and I have learnt to manage better in stressful situations that I thought I would not be able to overcome. I have strengthened my relationships with my family and friends.

One positive thing is that the situation made me rethink my outlook on life. Another positive aspect is that I learned how to deal with adversity.
One positive aspect is that those hard moments helped me to learn about myself, to know how to manage my emotions and try to be positive so that fear, anguish and depression did not overwhelm me.
One thing I also learned that is positive is how important relationships are and how important it is to have supportive people.
Another positive experience is that you learn to deal with suffering.

Nobody said life was easy.

Date: 24.06. 2022
Organisation: ALTAIR School Seville