Теслов Вильдан tesol Skype

Меня зовут Вильдан, мне 31 год. Никогда не поздно стать тем, кем хочешь быть или заниматься тем, чем еще не занимался. С помощью программы TESOL и, конечно, преподавателей я очень много для себя узнал: новые методики преподавания, правила написания эссе, новые концепции обучения иностранному языку и.т.д. Спасибо всему преподавательскому коллективу!

Екатерина Иванова

These days I teach mostly kids (from kindergarten to middle school students), we use all the levels of «Wonderland» sets, created by Chinese Kid Castle (English training institution), the fourth edition of «Let’s go» (authors are R.Nakata, K. Frazier, B.Hoskins, C.Graham), «Phonics Kids» (Tara Bambrick), for middle school students we use the 3rd edition of Longman Photo Dictionary. As for high school and college students, we used «New Interchange» (Lack C.Richards, Chuck Sandy) and «World Link» ( Susan Stempleski, Nancy Douglas, James R.Morgan, Kristin L.Johannsen).

Working in China is challenging and I can talk and talk about it a lot. Chinese students have a lot of material to learn, they have many classes every day, I was shocked to know that primary school students, grade 1, have 8 regular classes every day, compare to 3-4 classes for primary school students in Russia. They often feel tired studying at their state schools, many of them already dislike studying just because it’s too tiring, that’s why when they come for foreign teacher classes, they want to relax, play and have fun, so I have to make them interested in learning, by using every method, by using all my abilities of acting, singing, playing, and make them not only play but also learn.

One more specific thing of Chinese people is that most of them like quantity more than quality, so before to start a course, I need to talk to parents and students themselves and explain that I personally mostly pay attention to the quality of education not the quantity.

There is one more thing that honestly made me think and plan a lot, learn and even change myself. It became a normal thing already, somehow even a fashion, to start English classes for Chinese kids at the age of 2.5 — 3 years old. There are more and more students of this age coming to private schools and English training centers for classes with a foreign teacher. Here I have to be not only a teacher, but also a nanny, mom and a clown. For them I have to create not just games and activities, but the games and activities, that will be easy, safe, interesting and useful, with a lot of acting, jumping and dancing. It was really difficult at the beginning, as they are so young, I had to try a lot of activities and games, exclude those that did not fit, and create, create and create. Now when I see their progress, results of my teaching, their desire to come, learn and play, I honestly feel happy and proud of myself.

There are many challenging things I can say about working in China, but I like one very important thing: they respect their teachers so much and that feels good!!!

With much respect and best regards, Ekaterina