What did I learn from TESOL- Mary

What did I learn from TESOL- Mary

Learning a foreign language has many advantages including gathering knowledge of diverse cultures, better job prospects, effective communication skill and so on. But as a teacher, it is not very easy to help students to get them very well, so learning TESOL became a good way to improve myself. And thanks to those two months of study about TESOL, I learned a lot of things that are very helpful for my teaching.

Firstly, it helps me to have a new understanding of myself. As a children’s English teacher, we should not only have a profound knowledge of English and skilled operation skills, but also need to pay more attention to the different psychological characteristics of children's growth. I had been mistakenly spending my main energy on checking the degree of students’ knowledge and ignore the different psychological characteristics of children’s growth before. But now I know teachers should become students' partners and close friends on the way to exploring English.

Secondly, it helps me have a new understanding of English classroom teaching. Through this training, I have learned more teaching skills. For children of different ages, different learning methods and abilities should be used more suitable for children of all ages. We need to focus on the interest in the overall goal of teaching, cultivate creativity and self-confidence, and let children learn happily; focus on creating a learning environment and improve learning efficiency in the implementation of courses; focus on participation in practice and innovative development in teaching models and methods; in teaching evaluation, focus on the use of incentive mechanisms and multiple evaluations.

Thirdly, this training provides many teaching methods for us such as Total Physical Response, Content-Centered Language Learning, Lexical Method, the Audiolingual Method, Whole- Language Approach, Communicative Approach and the Art/Musical Approach. It can help us enrich our classroom and enhance children’s interest in learning by using those different methods.

All in all, after this study I benefited a lot and felt the burden on my shoulders become heavier. I need to learn more things to improve myself and strive to become a better English teacher!