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Teach English in Longting Zhen - Hanzhong Shi

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After a short overlook on the topics available for writing summative task, I have chosen to write and share my personal teaching experience so far. I will try to involve a few of the topics related to this course too. I started with my teaching journey exactly two years ago. Since that time, I have been taught over 3 000 one on one and group classes. In the beginning, my biggest challenge was level 1 classes with both, kids and adults. Since the company is based in Asia and most of my students come from Asian countries, mostly China, I have found really hard managing those types of classes, where students didn't understand even basic things, except saying " hello". After finishing my TEFL course and after a few difficult experiences while teaching, I began to feel more confident as time was passing. I can say that I was lucky because the company I work for, had already prepared material according to the student's knowledge and abilities. The most challenging in my teaching experience so far were and are classes with very young students( between 3 and 6 years old). My classes with kids last 25 minutes, but sometimes it seems like a whole eternity! Most of the time, children are left alone during the classes ( no one is supervising them) and for me, the hardest thing was to keep their attention. The best tool that I have used is definitely chants and songs! During these kinds of classes, I need to be engaged literally whole 25 minutes till the very end, most of the time dancing, singing, changing my voice and of course using lots of props, such as teddy bear, flashing cards and many others! Since teaching online is my full-time job, I have found really hard to keep the level of the energy constantly high. I am fully committed to my work and I always want to provide each child with the best possible teaching treatment. One of the issues is definitely the lower payment for teachers from Eastern Europe countries. Therefore I need to work more to earn enough to ensure my monthly costs are paid. Despite it, I think that working with children is one of the best jobs in the world and I am thankful for being a part of the teaching community. One of the difficulties while teaching young learners is also working with groups, especially with teenagers. As we know that these ages are very sensitive, trying to maintain good class environment sometimes can be very difficult and complex. Of course that I can't compare working online and working in a real environment, but maintaining the peace online gets even harder as students are in their homes where they feel comfortable, self-confident and therefore a bit more relaxed and ready to start a " chatting conflict" if it is possible. In those situations, the only thing I can do is to raise my voice, mute their microphones or report the bad behavior to the company but that rarely helps. One on one classes with teenagers is also a challenge. Girls are mostly more opened and mature, willing to talk, share their thoughts. Boys are an introvert, interested in online gaming and not willing to share their thoughts. In my opinion, working one on one classes are a definitely better choice for both, child and teacher. As long as I am released from writing lessons, it goes much easier than working with groups classes. Teaching " market" is growing day by day, therefore I came across the idea or necessity to improve and increase my knowledge by finishing this additional course for young learners. The one I have missed is definitely creating materials and using ESA methodology. Internet sources of materials are also very useful and have found a variety of book courses and sites very helpful and beneficial to use. As a conclusion of my summary task, I will just add that I am looking forward to every next day, every next class and teaching experience, which make me grow as a person and consultant.


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