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Teaching
Statement
As
a Chinese language teacher based on the teaching cases, are
mostly involved
with all kinds of
background adult group classes and 20 hour beginning level
courses,
my objectives are: 1) Helping students
build foundations of two basic skills,--speaking
and listening,
in as many effective ways as possible. 2) Training
students to be explores
in learning Chinese. As a result, it is
crucial for me to continually keep striving to be a
learner and explorer myself. By putting myself in the students'
shoes I am able to give
them more practical
instruction. Also, the more diverse my teaching methods and
ideas
can be. I identify with the boring memorization
my students have to face when trying to
remember vocabulary. I
encourage them to deal with this by making as
many visually
silly and interesting sentences as possible.
Instead of remembering the word orders by
saying them
correctly, I would rather my students to be explorers. I ask
them to explore
word orders by seeing them through
the sentence pattern instead. This way both listening
and
speaking skills are exercised through making sentences.
And a lack of boring
repetition makes it more likely that my
students will succeed. I believe that the best
approaches to learning are to always stick to the basics and
simplicity of the foundation
and knowledge of a
subject. I always instruct my students that there are no short
cuts, no
secrets yet no fears to learning something
one doesn't understand. This will cause more
effective learning.
One of the greatest rewards that I can hope to
expect is that my students
say to me and each other, "Chinese is
not as hard to learn as I thought it would be!" |
