My experience teaching English!!!=)

Hello readers!!!!  I would like to talk a little about my experience teaching English. Actually, I do not have much experience in this field since there have been just two the opportunities I have had to teach English; however, although I may not have such a great and big curriculum; I can truly say that the two cases or chances that I have had for teaching as I have already mentioned have been really meaningful for me and I have learned a lot from them.  

The first opportunity that I got to teach was when I started my social service in Polideportivo España. I was in my second year in the university when I decided to start my social service. Thus, I started as a teacher assistant in the place already mentioned above, nevertheless, I was transferred to the high school Richard Mangini where an English scholarship was being served with the help of the sponsor SIMAN. When I got into this high school I did not know anything about teaching. Though, I used to observe carefully to the teacher in charge. She saw my desire to teach, so I started teaching to cover her when she had things to do, as a result, I taught in front of her. At the beginning, I felt intimidated, but after some classes the coordinator of this project saw my effort and assigned me one group of students to teach them every week. I was so excited about it that I could not refuse the proposal. After accepting, I spent one year teaching to adolescents from 13-15 and another group from 16-18 years old. At the beginning it was not easy. I was younger than I am now, I had no experience and the students were kind of rebellious; nonetheless, I survived. I even got to love my students (in a good and teacher way). When I had to quit due to personal reasons, I almost cried. This was a great experience for me and that I will never forget, and that also taught me many things about teens’ behaviors that I will explain in more detail in the next entry, so do not miss it!!!!!

Then, the second experience I have about teaching happened in the university.  Last year in the university, my classmates and I started our teaching practicums, so I had the experience to work with kids. This was a big challenge for me since I had never taught kids, and I had the feeling that I did not like kids. After some weeks of preparation, we started teaching and I can say that every sacrifice that had to be done in order to teach a good class was worth at the moment of seeing those kids so happy of getting their diplomas.

To sum up, as I said before those are the only two opportunities that I have had about teaching; nevertheless, I think that every little teaching we do provides us an extra experience we did not have before. We are always learning and we never finish learning; thus, these two chances have granted me not only some little experience, but also the privilege to instruct people to know something new!!!!