Sherin Seonwha Park

108th WK

why I want to be an English teacher?

What I want to be a teacher was my dream. But, after graduation, my first

job wasn’t a teacher. I have worked as just an officer like common people.

As I debate with myself in early days, I was interested in English without special

reason.  When I was a student of middle school,  I was joined to English

conversation club by suggestion of English teacher.  As its starting point,  I got

to prefer English. After that time, I have studied English in academies.

Buy the way, my personality is passive and introversive.  I was so  tremble

that I couldn’t speak with foreigners much.

As time passed, I got married and had two sons. While I am taking care of my

naughty sons, I began teaching my sons myself. I was getting know gradually

how to teach. I regarded teaching is fruitful and attractive.  So I quit my job

which worked at foreigner’s company. And then I was entered in training course

English teacher for 2 months.  My introversive tendency was changing a lot

during this course. While I am teaching English I acquired some knowledges to

handle effectively a group of students. That’s why I’m here to learn more how

to teach and how to be a ‘world class teacher’. Can I be a world class teacher?

I’m not sure but I assure that I can achieve to be an involver teacher or

enabler teacher.

What things should change for a better teacher?

Looking back for my teacher of the school, I hate a boring teacher and class.

If we usually don’t like the teacher, we don’t like the subject either. We felt

difficult to endure the class of an explainer teacher. We need to consider

student’s mind and their interests. If we don’t care that, it will difficult to get

good results from students. In these days, the school trusts an interactive

teaching methods much. When there is enough interaction between the teacher

and the students, the teacher can affect for student’s improvement. Going one

step forward, we can make satisfied both of students and their parents.

The biggest inconsistency in our country is that the students of the prestigious

university and the persons of leading companies can’t speak English well. The

problem is an exam to pass the test. Therefore after graduation of university

and entrance of companies, people still study English. Furthermore the teaching

style of English teacher is not productive. As the generation went by, we must

change such receptive method ourself.

I attended just twice to the TESOL class, I am discovering an amazing flame

for methods of education. I encourage the students to elicit their idea. I let the

students get the way how to catch the answer.  I lead the students be

conative. Those are things what I should agonize a solution. Honestly I am

scared at the same time. I do know It’s time to put in action “ change ”!