My career has always been inclined toward teaching or training individuals. I have worked for various ESL schools and had students from all over the world. Ever since I started working as an English teacher in 2018, I noticed that most English learners study English to pass an English certification exam such as IELTS, TOEIC, or TOEFL. Therefore, I decided to take these tests myself so that I can also help them in test preparation. With hard work, I was able to get a score of 8.0, 985 for TOEIC L&R, 200 for TOEIC S&W, and 107 in TOEFL. I’m also currently studying the Japanese language because I want to utilize my Japanese and English skills to help Japanese people attain their goal of mastering the craft of speaking English. Therefore, with my English skills and Japanese language proficiency, I’m confident I can get my point across leading to successful communication, interaction, and learning. I believe I will be able to connect and be a good role model for my students as I am also a non-native speaker who successfully developed her English skills through self-discipline and persistent efforts.
My teaching philosophy is to first find the students’ goal to study English and use this as their motivation to make an engaging and interesting learning environment. I have always found role plays and conversation practice as effective ways of acquiring speaking skills especially when the dialogues being practiced are applicable in daily life like ordering from a menu or making a presentation. While I was taking a TESOL course I learned that instead of spoonfeeding the students, we should elicit their thoughts or what they already know about the lesson and work from there. This way we can encourage participation from the very start of the lesson and similar to what is stated in the Schema Theory, the students will have their “Eureka” moments, add learning blocks and further develop what they already know. So, all-in-all, the point of my teaching philosophy is to be supportive of the students’ dreams while leading them to become independent and highly-motivated learners.