Week 3: My reflections on Chapter 25 (HDB)

After finishing my medical treatments last year in Taiwan, I started to look for a part-time teaching job. I wanted to apply what I have learnt from school as well as build up my resume at the same time. Fortunately, I got an English substitute teacher positions in elementary school and cram schools for few days. At the beginning class, I had a high self-expectation toward to my teaching, and often times expected me myself to be a master teacher. I tried to do best as I could in the class. But the truth is that I’m just a novice teacher, and how I could become a master teacher overnight. Over expectation made me stress out. When I read the Chapter 25 on HDB book, I has a strongly feeling that this is just writing to such a person like me. This is what I really should learn. Learning has no the end, and we should never stop learning because there is something you can always improve your life, not only on teaching.

Week 3: Keep ourselves updated (MCM)

There are a great number of ideas available for language teachers to continune their professional development, and they are: engaging in several professional conferences related, subscribing and reading related journals or magazine, attending workshops or seminars or especial programs, exchanging teaching experience with other colleagues, and so on. It is also good to know that many resources about the TESL professional institutes and websites addressed in textbook from p. 537 - p. 548.