Why do I want to teach English?
It was hard to say when I would like to become a teacher. I just know that I went with the flow with little planning and now I finally become a PGDE student.
Every child must have a chance stating what their dreams are when they are small. Still I did not have a clear mind on what I would be. I liked reading and drawing maps at childhood times so teaching wasn't relevant to me at all.
But in my secondary school life, I was inspired by my F.3 class teacher, Ms Law, who is a Chinese teacher. I barely had any interest to study Chinese at all as it was the most difficult subject I'd ever had in my life. Still she was patient enough to guide me after school and had remedial class. I still remembered her class was enjoyable yet torturing(as in writing assignments). I really admired her, in the way that she spent a lot of time with me and other weaker students, and also that she had fluctuating and strong personalities to manage the class well. I was thinking to become such an unpredictable person like her, and I still hadn't thought of being a teacher yet.
Another reason for me to become a teacher is that I gained my most confidence in the English subject. I had a lot of drilling in primary school and I could still remember how I was trained to know the grammar rules with hundreds of sentences with similar pattern. At the same time, I didn't find an occupation which suits me very much when I was planning my career. My parents wanted me to become an engineer as I studied science subjects in the A-level.
Actually what made me make up my mind to become a teacher was the trip to Singapore in my F.6 summer. I had to encourage my juniors to speak in English but their English standards were unacceptable to me (Also I changed to a Band 3 school to study matriculation). I was wondering why my juniors could have such a week competence in using English. As a student-leader of the group, I realised that I had to become the juniors' role model and pioneers to prove that speaking English was not an awful thing. It paved my way to build up a motivation to improve the language standard of weaker students, especially those who lack support from the lower-income family.I work currently at a Band 2 CMI school which serves mainly the families living in the public housing estates nearby, and I know that it's my mission to help those who are in need.
Every child must have a chance stating what their dreams are when they are small. Still I did not have a clear mind on what I would be. I liked reading and drawing maps at childhood times so teaching wasn't relevant to me at all.
But in my secondary school life, I was inspired by my F.3 class teacher, Ms Law, who is a Chinese teacher. I barely had any interest to study Chinese at all as it was the most difficult subject I'd ever had in my life. Still she was patient enough to guide me after school and had remedial class. I still remembered her class was enjoyable yet torturing(as in writing assignments). I really admired her, in the way that she spent a lot of time with me and other weaker students, and also that she had fluctuating and strong personalities to manage the class well. I was thinking to become such an unpredictable person like her, and I still hadn't thought of being a teacher yet.
Another reason for me to become a teacher is that I gained my most confidence in the English subject. I had a lot of drilling in primary school and I could still remember how I was trained to know the grammar rules with hundreds of sentences with similar pattern. At the same time, I didn't find an occupation which suits me very much when I was planning my career. My parents wanted me to become an engineer as I studied science subjects in the A-level.
Actually what made me make up my mind to become a teacher was the trip to Singapore in my F.6 summer. I had to encourage my juniors to speak in English but their English standards were unacceptable to me (Also I changed to a Band 3 school to study matriculation). I was wondering why my juniors could have such a week competence in using English. As a student-leader of the group, I realised that I had to become the juniors' role model and pioneers to prove that speaking English was not an awful thing. It paved my way to build up a motivation to improve the language standard of weaker students, especially those who lack support from the lower-income family.I work currently at a Band 2 CMI school which serves mainly the families living in the public housing estates nearby, and I know that it's my mission to help those who are in need.
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