How can I do good teaching?

Hello, My name is Lauren. I want talk about my experience to learning English.

Korean people think that learning English is very important. So I also learned English at school. I remember my English teachers. When I was young, I didn’t like English. and I started my English studies later than many children. When I learned English at school, I couldn’t understand anything. So I was not interested in English and I also lost my confidence. When I was 14 years old, I had a terrible English teacher. She was a terrible English teacher because at that time, my English teacher did not help me. She always showed power points to students about grammar. She just read a sentence and explained about it. It was so boring and I couldn't understand anything. After finishing the explanation, she asked a question about grammar. I could not get the right answer because I could not understand anything. If I did not answer, she would scold me. She did not give time for thinking about the question. She immediately gave the right answer. she did not communicate with the students. Looking back, I think she did not respect the students. I lost my confidence and I was afraid of her. When I had a question, I could not ask because she said "why  don't you know that? I taught that already". So I did not ask anything in my English class. She usually gave a paper. With so many vocabulary words. She said "you have to memorize these words by next class. If you cannot pass the exam, I will give you a penalty". I had to memorize many vocabulary words. I hated English and I did not focus on the class.

But when I was 16years old, one of my English teachers changed my mind. She always respected the students. I usually did not participate in English class, but she didn’t give up and tried to communicate with me. She always prepared for class. Her class was not boring. I learned English through games, songs, and many activities. Usually Korean teachers forced me to memorize a sentence and vocabulary. Teacher usually just give definitions without explanations or examples. But she did not force me to memorize. I was able to learn English words through songs. If I asked a question, she did not give an answer straight away. She gave time to think about the question. She just gave a hint. I was able to think about the question one more time and I could answer the question! I am got more interested in English and I had confidence.

Since I studied English, I came to like English! I still remember her. She gave me good memories of learning English. I always thank her for teaching creatively. My dream is to teach English for children. I have experiences of good English and bad  English learning. I can understand good teaching method. I think teacher is advisor. Teachers have to communication with students and enable communication in English. I think just explaining is not good teaching method. That is so boring and may cause students to loose interest in learning English forever. We need to explain, but we also have to activities like Songs, games, role plays. For these activities,we have to consider their level, age and interests. It is important that they do not lose interest for English. So teachers always have to be hard-working and not lazy.

Teachers need to think how to teach English in a fun way that is easy to study so teachers should prepare for class perfectly. Korean teachers usually emphasize the grammar. But How can you speak Korean well? Did you learn about grammar? When you speak Korean, you always think about grammar? No! You learn Korean in a natural environment. Likewise, English is the same, but Korean people always think about grammar so they hesitate to speak English. If they always worried about grammar, they can not speak English well. So teacher need to make a proper environment to use English. I want to be funny a teacher. When I teach English, I have students can feel pleasure and say "Your class is so interesting!" and “I love English now!". One of my English teachers changed my mind; I also want to change my student's mind. I will communicate with them and I always prepare for good lesson considering their level, age, interest.  I want to be a good teacher!