Experience
Currently, I am an English teacher in a secondary school in Singapore, and have been teaching for 3 years. For English, I have taught Secondary 3 Express for three years, and I have experience creating English language resources for the rest of the levels and streams. In my classes, I have had the opportunity to teach students of different abilities within one class. Hence, in order to learn how to better help students of varying abilities within one class, I went and graduated from a course in Differentiated Instruction, that helped me to gain knowledge on how to properly scaffold classes well to guide students of different levels so that value is added into their learning for every lesson. I have had opportunities to work with Secondary 3 students from Myanmar, Thailand and China who were very weak in the language, and to successfully help them to pass their examinations for the year despite having failed in the earlier parts of the years.
As a teacher, I believe in the abilities of every student, and that with the proper guidance and by letting them taste small success throughout their learning process, they will be able to gain confidence and intrinsic motivation to excel in the subject. Additionally, I am taking a Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language, with a module dealing directly with teaching phonology and phonetics.
At present, I am also teaching a 6-year-old boy phonics. He was unable to read or write in the first lesson, but could read an entire Level 1 Peter & Jane book unaided by the end of the 8th lesson.Â
I also have students who are learning IGCSE and IBÂ English from me.Â
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