Teaching 'meme'

[eslteachertim]

Inspired by another blog I visit, called $trictly 4 my T.E.A.C.H.E.R.Z, this ‘teaching meme’ (whatever that means) is a cool form of self-reflection.

1. I am a good teacher because… I want to help my students get something from their English learning efforts, because I put effort into my lessons, because I feel elated when a lesson goes well and

Comments

[colonelperry42n]

thanks for posting that!

I'm a brand new ESL teacher, I just moved to Korea about 6 months ago to teach EFL to kindergarten-4th grade (and some private lessons to older students) It's good to see someone so positive about teaching, and who takes their job seriously. That can be so difficult for me, especially with little training (and no training in dealing with young children!!)

I'll do that meme later on.

Young Students

[eslteachertim]

It's hard sometimes to be sure.
I missed the day when we learnt how to teach kids on my TESOL course (2006)... and my first job was teaching 6 classes of 8 - 14 year old children! Go figure.
They're exhausting aren't they.
Thanks for your comment, I look forward to reading your meme ;0)

[jonasdl520]

WOW!!!!!!

that's quite inspiring! :-) thanks!

[ex_enbooste]

Seems as if you've answered all the questions exactly the way I would. ;) Statement 9 is so so true.