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I have a teaching experience of 2 years, but the most unforgettable lesson was my first lesson. My first teaching experience goes back to 2017, when I was living in New Zealand. While staying in New Zealand, I had an offer from my landlord to teach his children Chinese with the right amount of pay in return. Therefore I accepted it. However, the problem was I had no experience of teaching, so I was petrified and nervous at the same time. Thoughts were arising in my mind saying, “What happens if I screw this up?” “Does that mean I have no talent in teaching?” Such anxious thoughts had pressured me and pushed me down. So I had no choice but to ask for my dad’s help. And he recommended me to use PPT style of teaching because all the necessary information will be inside the PPT. So there was no need to hold materials while teaching. I thought this was a great idea and started to prepare for my first class. When it came to the first day of my teaching, the kids that I played together with, no longer felt welcoming (I was pretty close with them). Moreover, their mom was also present. At that point, I was terrified. (So I prayed to God, to give me strength and courage to overcome this nervousness.) However, while everybody was in the presence, I couldn’t turn my back and run away. So I had no choice but to start my shivering first lesson. (Before I begin my teaching, I would always start with a prayer.) On my first lesson, I started the class by teaching them how to introduce themselves in Chinese, and I prepared a dialogue on the PPT with Pinyin on it. Initially, I translated the names of the landlord’s children into Chinese, and then I demonstrated how to express it and pronounce it correctly by introducing myself and reading their names in Chinese. Next, I asked the students to present themselves in Chinese, but I instructed them one at a time by using drilling (about three times each). And then, I asked each student to introduce themselves. When everybody pronounced correctly, I moved on to the next dialogue, which was “where do you live?” At that time, we were living in a district called Northcote. I had no idea how to say Northcote in Chinese, so I just used Northcote in the dialogue. But this time, I drilled the students altogether three times, and then I drilled each student one at a time until they are pronouncing correctly. After that, I taught them about saying their age in Chinese. In this part, I used drilling again to make sure they have made the correct pronunciation and expression. As I finished talking my time was up. The class has ended just teaching for an hour. As I finished my first teaching, it felt neither that good nor that bad. Because the average age of the students was 12, they all enjoyed the lesson at first but grew bored at the very end. And their mom didn’t visit next time, but the children revisited and learned Chinese until I left New Zealand. After all, it was not a bad start.
