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Teaching
Statement
I
believe in early success in learning a foreign language. It's
important to keep students
motivated and to
provide students a positive experience in learning a foreign
language. I
attempt to keep my students motivated
by using lots of visual aids, making the materials
relevant to
students' life, changing the duration of each
activity based on their attention span,
bringing in reaiia,
using digital material and using students' drawings to
teach and reinforce
the language and culture. Since there is no
one approach or textbook fits all learners, I
find
all opportunities to gain myself any knowledge of teaching
a foreign language and get familiar
with different
approaches and theories of second language acquisition. I
believe that by
constant equipping myself with the
most current knowledge, I can apply innovative ways
of teaching
to address the diverse needs of all my students.
I also believe the importance to
maximize the opportunity for
students to hear and speak Chinese in the class.
I use storytelling,
story reading, Total Physical Response (TPR),
visuals and physical activities, songs, rhymes,
chants in my teaching. |
