My Journey through Teaching
來源：國際部 作者：Michelle 發布日期：2015-10-12 瀏覽次數：6057
International Class Grade Three foreign head-teacher Michelle
From the time as a small child, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. After high school, I knew right away what course to take in college. I took Bachelor of Secondary Education and after graduation landed my first ESL teaching job in a small city in the Northern part of China. There were many struggles at first. But as time passed, I became well adjusted, learned a bit of Chinese and enjoyed my teaching job more and more each day. I ended up staying in my first school for two years and then moved to Hefei.
Making the decision to work in Hefei was a good one. It was summertime in 2008 when I first arrived in Hefei World Foreign Language School. I remember feeling pretty nervous. I knew my work here would be different. My previous teaching job was at a training school with small sized classes. So I was worried constantly of how I would cope with a large group of learners and what I was going to teach. But all these concerns disappeared quickly, thanks to the wide range of online resources and books for generating lesson ideas.
Now and then the age range of my students varied so much so when teaching I always try to incorporate activities, create new materials and as much as possible deliver it in different ways as much as possible. I can say the need to adapt and be a flexible teacher became a skill that I have developed over the years from teaching learners of different levels.
My years of teaching experience have taught me a lot. As I’ve grown as an educator, I have learned to constantly innovate and design lessons to meet the needs and harness the potential of my students. I came to understand that to teach means to have a great deal of knowledge of instructional strategies so that when you make on-the-spot decisions you have a full repertoire of choices. To teach, you have to have extraordinary levels of patience, enthusiasm, creativity, and, above all, passion for everything you do. In teaching, especially with young learners, actions, gestures and body language are sometimes more powerful than words, they remind you that no matter how old you are you’re never too old to play and be of young spirit. Over the years, I came to see that many of the things I know about teaching are actually the simple truths, the meaningful experiences I have with my students. At the end of the day, even with all the pressures, anxieties and demands of teaching, the rewards it gives are always exponential.
As a teacher, I have learned to never think that I have learned enough. I have learned that I am never finished as a professional learner, that every day is an opportunity for growing, learning and discovering new things.
我在中國的教師生涯
三年級國際班 外教班主任 米歇爾
當我還是孩童時我的理想就是當一名教師。高中畢業報考大學時我毫不猶豫選擇了教育專業，在接下來的本科四年時間里完成了中學教育專業學士學位，我如愿以償成了一名英語老師。我的第一份工作是在中國北部的一座小城。初出茅廬走上講臺的我忐忑不安，但漸漸地，我變得游刃有余，越來越享受我的工作。兩年后我決定辭職來合肥求職。
時間證明了我當時的決定是正確的。2008年的夏天我加入了合肥世界外國語學校，新進員工的緊張焦慮讓我至今記憶猶新。我意識到在這里的工作將會大大有別于之前在培訓機構小范圍的授課，所以我很擔心自己無法駕馭大班教學。但幸運地是，網上豐富的教學資源和教育類專門書籍幫助我很快消除了這種擔心。
我面對的學生年齡跨度很大，所以在授課時我總會嘗試各種活動，盡可能自己編寫上課材料。多年針對不同年齡學生的授課使我成長為一名教學方法靈活適應性強的老師。
教學讓我成長，讓我學會了很多。當我日漸成為一名真正的教育者時，我學會科學地設計課堂滿足學生的需求，開發學生的潛力。我明白教學意味著掌握大量系統合理地教學方法，這樣才能在面對瞬息萬變的課堂時做出最恰當的反應。教學需要超乎常人的耐心、親切、熱情和不斷的創新。面對低年齡的學生，動作、手勢、身體語言甚至比語言更加有用，在他們面前我總是這么精力旺盛，保持著一顆年輕的心。一天結束時雖疲憊倦乏，但收獲是喜人的。
作為一名老師，我從來不認為自己所學的已經足夠，每天新的經歷，新的發現讓我不斷成長，不斷進步。
教師介紹：
Michelle Villaflor Sagayno，三年級國際班外教班主任，她性格溫和，為人熱情誠懇，開朗大方，尤其工作上兢兢業業，英語發音純
International Class Grade Three foreign head-teacher Michelle
From the time as a small child, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. After high school, I knew right away what course to take in college. I took Bachelor of Secondary Education and after graduation landed my first ESL teaching job in a small city in the Northern part of China. There were many struggles at first. But as time passed, I became well adjusted, learned a bit of Chinese and enjoyed my teaching job more and more each day. I ended up staying in my first school for two years and then moved to Hefei.
Making the decision to work in Hefei was a good one. It was summertime in 2008 when I first arrived in Hefei World Foreign Language School. I remember feeling pretty nervous. I knew my work here would be different. My previous teaching job was at a training school with small sized classes. So I was worried constantly of how I would cope with a large group of learners and what I was going to teach. But all these concerns disappeared quickly, thanks to the wide range of online resources and books for generating lesson ideas.
Now and then the age range of my students varied so much so when teaching I always try to incorporate activities, create new materials and as much as possible deliver it in different ways as much as possible. I can say the need to adapt and be a flexible teacher became a skill that I have developed over the years from teaching learners of different levels.
My years of teaching experience have taught me a lot. As I’ve grown as an educator, I have learned to constantly innovate and design lessons to meet the needs and harness the potential of my students. I came to understand that to teach means to have a great deal of knowledge of instructional strategies so that when you make on-the-spot decisions you have a full repertoire of choices. To teach, you have to have extraordinary levels of patience, enthusiasm, creativity, and, above all, passion for everything you do. In teaching, especially with young learners, actions, gestures and body language are sometimes more powerful than words, they remind you that no matter how old you are you’re never too old to play and be of young spirit. Over the years, I came to see that many of the things I know about teaching are actually the simple truths, the meaningful experiences I have with my students. At the end of the day, even with all the pressures, anxieties and demands of teaching, the rewards it gives are always exponential.
As a teacher, I have learned to never think that I have learned enough. I have learned that I am never finished as a professional learner, that every day is an opportunity for growing, learning and discovering new things.
我在中國的教師生涯
三年級國際班 外教班主任 米歇爾
當我還是孩童時我的理想就是當一名教師。高中畢業報考大學時我毫不猶豫選擇了教育專業，在接下來的本科四年時間里完成了中學教育專業學士學位，我如愿以償成了一名英語老師。我的第一份工作是在中國北部的一座小城。初出茅廬走上講臺的我忐忑不安，但漸漸地，我變得游刃有余，越來越享受我的工作。兩年后我決定辭職來合肥求職。
時間證明了我當時的決定是正確的。2008年的夏天我加入了合肥世界外國語學校，新進員工的緊張焦慮讓我至今記憶猶新。我意識到在這里的工作將會大大有別于之前在培訓機構小范圍的授課，所以我很擔心自己無法駕馭大班教學。但幸運地是，網上豐富的教學資源和教育類專門書籍幫助我很快消除了這種擔心。
我面對的學生年齡跨度很大，所以在授課時我總會嘗試各種活動，盡可能自己編寫上課材料。多年針對不同年齡學生的授課使我成長為一名教學方法靈活適應性強的老師。
教學讓我成長，讓我學會了很多。當我日漸成為一名真正的教育者時，我學會科學地設計課堂滿足學生的需求，開發學生的潛力。我明白教學意味著掌握大量系統合理地教學方法，這樣才能在面對瞬息萬變的課堂時做出最恰當的反應。教學需要超乎常人的耐心、親切、熱情和不斷的創新。面對低年齡的學生，動作、手勢、身體語言甚至比語言更加有用，在他們面前我總是這么精力旺盛，保持著一顆年輕的心。一天結束時雖疲憊倦乏，但收獲是喜人的。
作為一名老師，我從來不認為自己所學的已經足夠，每天新的經歷，新的發現讓我不斷成長，不斷進步。
教師介紹：
Michelle Villaflor Sagayno，三年級國際班外教班主任，她性格溫和，為人熱情誠懇，開朗大方，尤其工作上兢兢業業，英語發音純