Be a good leader for your students!!

103rd WD Amy

When I was teenager, I was always one of the top ranked student in the class. Because I was basically good at memorizing things. But after I got into university in Australia, I had to suffer from English and that brought me a lot of changes.

I got used to Korean education system, which is mainly focused on memorizing. However in Australian university, I needed to actually understand of what I am doing and interact with other classmates and lecturer all the times and also it seemed nobody hesitate to ask the questions if needed.

Until that time, English was something that I just need to memorize many vocabulary and grammar. But unfortunately it was not!!

So this time, I would like to talk about how my experience of learning English is going to affect my teaching career in the future.

I went to Australia when I was last grade in high school. At first, I started to study English in Language school. Which was probably the happiest time of my overseas life. I could hangout with various nationality people and we all from different language background. So we always used body language or even dictionary to communicate each other. Because we were friends and we wanted to be closer. So there was no pushing of studying english or stressed out at all. During the class in the institute, the lecturer offered students to play the game or do some fun activities that attracted students.

So I and my classmates were able to learn english by having fun rather than do a lot of homework. the lecturer never scold at students and she always tried to encourage us. and she also always tried to find a good point of students than weak or bad point of students.

I surely believe that this is the key point of learning English!

Of course the language school curriculum and university course curriculum can not be the same. But to approach to the main idea of learning English effectively should be the same! The lecturer in the university, she was kind of racist. she always looked down Asian students and she often picked an Asian student to stand up and ask the question. And if the Asian student can not answer the question then, she started to blame and complain about Asian students rather than encourage student. that happened to me too. and as I said, until the university I always receive the good mark from the exam because of my memorizing skill. But I started to get blame and be embarrassed in front of many students. That was horrible, shocking experience for me. It also made me lose confident on studying for such a long time. If the university lecturer was more friendly and tried to help Asian students like my language school teacher, I am sure that my life could have been changed to more positive side. So when I become an English teacher, I will make sure that nobody in my class is suffering from English by class environment, and I will try my best to encourage students by compliment them the good point of their learning process.

I can tell anyone that learning English is not that easy as you think. However there are still many good teachers who are willing to be helpful for their students.

In conclusion, my horrible experience of learning English in Australian university brought me to this course to be an English teacher. Because I never wanted anyone to experience such a bad things that I experienced anymore. my final goal is to be a good leader for my students.

To be the one, I need to focus on

studying 4 basic language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) to make myself ready

trying to be an enabler for my class

treat students fairly but friendly

efficient teaching technique

having a good communication with students

make my students ready for the class

providing a comfortable environment for studying

Now, I even feel thanks for my worst English teacher in Australia university. she brought me the new dream!

Thank you for reading my essay!