The Last Class
In this week, we present the video project to the
whole class, which records our language learning journey this semester. Our group member, Zoe, took lots of pictures during the group learning
section in every class, and she put those photos into our video to show the
journey from knowing nothing about Turkish to being able to teach our
classmates some useful sentences. I think it is quite amazing to see how we
have grown. She also videotaped how we made our jazz chant and put it into our
video, which I’m actually a bit embarrassed to be honest because the most part
was me. Most importantly, the video records the teaching presentation in the
two previous classes, which not only leave a footage for us, but also offer us
a material to reflect how we could make it better and improve if next time we
have a chance to teach others.
This is probably the last entry I will write for the class. After a semester of classes, I have more knowledge about teaching languages; I used to think teaching is not a very interesting job, and students are hard to tackle. In my freshman year, I took a voluntary job in a charity where I helped an elementary boy finishing his homework once a week. It is a very meaningful job though it was a bit challenging. When the little kid was in a good mood, he was very cute, diligent and had high expectation for himself. However, I feel quite frustrated occasionally when the boy acted rude and reluctant to learn. I doubted myself whether it was because I was a lousy teacher to him so that he did not want to learn. Though a staff member in the charity told me it was not my problem, and she thought I did a good job, I felt maybe I’m not suitable to be a teacher. However, from this class, I learned how to help students to learn painlessly through games and activities, which was the skill I didn’t have when I taught the boy, therefore, I think it’s useful to learn this. And maybe in the future, I could go back to the charity and taught the kids there with the methods we learned.
This is probably the last entry I will write for the class. After a semester of classes, I have more knowledge about teaching languages; I used to think teaching is not a very interesting job, and students are hard to tackle. In my freshman year, I took a voluntary job in a charity where I helped an elementary boy finishing his homework once a week. It is a very meaningful job though it was a bit challenging. When the little kid was in a good mood, he was very cute, diligent and had high expectation for himself. However, I feel quite frustrated occasionally when the boy acted rude and reluctant to learn. I doubted myself whether it was because I was a lousy teacher to him so that he did not want to learn. Though a staff member in the charity told me it was not my problem, and she thought I did a good job, I felt maybe I’m not suitable to be a teacher. However, from this class, I learned how to help students to learn painlessly through games and activities, which was the skill I didn’t have when I taught the boy, therefore, I think it’s useful to learn this. And maybe in the future, I could go back to the charity and taught the kids there with the methods we learned.
What’s more, from this class I also get to
understand how polyglot became so fluent in different languages, which
encouraged me to work on my Spanish more. I really want to participate in the
exchange program and study in Spain in the senior year in college. I’m curious with
the music, culture and food (paella!) in Spain. I promise that I’ll continue
studying Spanish to reach my goal!
Last but not least, I think after this class;
I will consider taking courses on teaching Chinese as a second language. Maybe
it could be one of the future possibility on choosing career. It would be wonderful
if I could live in Spain and teach my native language to local people. Thank
you professor for bringing lots of inspiration for us!
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Glad to know. Thanks for the reflection. Good job!
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