User:Waawtsyle

I am an English teacher in love with teaching, languages, books, music and art. I believe education is the key to solving many of the problems we are facing these days. "A teacher sees the world in a par­tic­u­lar way, and it is not only when he is in a school. I am a teacher all the time." (C. Rogers)

I grew up in a family of teachers. My grandpa, dad, two aunts, two uncles, an uncle in-law and one cousin were teachers. I vividly remember answering “anything but a teacher” when people asked me what I wanted to be in the future. The same passion I have today began when first entered a classroom with a teacher’s guide in my arms. I felt no power, I felt no amusement. On the contrary, I felt free and liberated. I felt I could give wings to people who wanted to fly. And we flew!

I am very passionate about teaching and I believe in the changing power of education, the power to change people’s lives and make them better. I don’t see what I do as simply teaching my students a foreign language, it goes beyond that many times. I teach them skills, I help them develop as learners and as individuals. And I learn with them, and I develop as a teacher a learner and an individual as well. Teaching is a two-way process.

I think we can never stop learning – I certainly don’t want to!

mm. other than that !! not thing much I'd think of. Actually. I'm also a mess of unfinished thoughts, a teddy-bear lover ,a music junky, a writer, a musician, an educational researcher, a PhD candidate, a school-curriculum planner, a self-assumed photographer, what-ever person and occasional weir doin' in a baker cutter world.