Why I Want To Be An English Teacher Essay

Since the second year of graduate school in Wuhan University, I have been teaching TOEFL preparation classes in Wuhan New Channel School. After 3 years’ teaching, I find that I still need to study further on education because I did not learn much professional knowledge about teaching and education during my bachelor’s and master’s programs.

It is my own study experience helping me to set my life goal clearly— I want to become an English teacher who can change the way English is taught in China. At first, the way English is taught in China is mainly test-oriented. Based on my own study experience, I realized that solely test-oriented instruction will render teaching ineffective and demotivate students. During my high school periods, every day my English teacher asked us to finish various exercises, including listening, reading, grammar, reading, and writing. At that time, I believed that the only reason that I learned English was to get a high score in my test. I had been a passive learner when studying English. Even though I had done numerous exercises and remembered a plenty of words, I still failed in my English test of college entrance examination.

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I realized that the change should begin with my own study. I utilized some English TV series, such as Modern Family, Desperate Housewives, to enrich my expressions and vocabularies. Besides, I also converted those videos to audios. I listened them over and over and mimicked them. During that time, I began to enjoy learning English because my methods enabled me to acquire both language skills and real knowledge about the world and culture. I wished I had teachers who had taught me to learn English this way when I was in high school, even from day one I learned