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My teaching experience

I've been teaching English to a group of middle school teachers for seven months. Most of the time I feel really good. I could even say that each time we meet is getting better and better. I am less and less under strain and much more ready to improvise. By that I mean that, contrary to my first weeks, I encourage my students to express themselves and let them tailor our lessons a bit.

Consequently, they've started having more fun and learning better, and we spend more quality time together.  

To teach involves not only motivating students to learn but also teaching them how to learn efficiently in a way that is significant and memorable.

When I prepare my lessons, I consider the purposes of the course and the interest of my students. To teach involves listening, interrogating, reacting quickly and not forgetting that each student is distinct.

Everytime something happens that illuminates my day-a nice word, a funny situation-. I'm progressively getting to consider my students as individuals and I become more and more genuinely interested in them and I like them more and more. Each one of them has become precious to me in one way or another.

With time passing, I listen better and I talk less. I take my teaching activity quite seriously. To teach involves also linking the theory and the practice. I am devoted to be a teacher that stimulates their ability to speak out and express themselves as far as they can. To teach involves pushing students to excel.

We start each lesson with a singing session which conveys them to speak out loudly and to learn new words in the same time.

They are outstandingly focused and I am always impressed by how clever they are. I feel really pleased to have such self motivated students. Yesterday, I was dictating the word "monitor" and one of them wrote it "money tour". This confusion caused a lot of giggling among us.

To teach requires humor. You need not taking yourself too seriously by making harmless jokes often at your own expenses in order that the ice breaks and students learn in a better mood.

After seven months of teaching, I have become also more self-assured.