Practice Teaching Report
Practice makes perfect! After more than three years of acquiring knowledge in college, I feel completely like practicing what I have learned and luckily this year I got a chance to practice teaching English in online education with Beiwaionline Tutorial Center in Bohai University. Now the practice has come to an end. However, I have so many feelings and memories that I can not help writing this paper to summarize what I have experienced and learned.
At the very beginning when I practiced, I was quite excited about my work. When I stood in the classroom and faced my students I could easily get them interested in the class and teach them what I have learned in my college. But just wait! Classroom teaching is not the only task. I would also teach the students in a brand new way-- Online Education. I suddenly felt I was a complete green hand. I was even not sure what the online education is and what I should do. At that time, my tutors came to me and taught me a new lesson.
Online Education is considered as a new way of teaching in China, though some countries started several years ago. The capacity of the traditional campus higher education is limited, and though it has increased enrollment in recent years, it still cannot meet the needs of our young people who wish to continue their studies let alone the needs of mature people already in the workplace who may wish to extend their qualifications. And Beijing Foreign Studies University founded the Institute of Online Education to meet people's needs for English language training at tertiary level.
Well, I have been informed what I need to start my work. As an online education teacher I should not be only good at English and teaching, but skillful in using computer as well. For instance, I have to use the Microsoft PowerPoint to create a lecture and even host a online seminar through the Internet. So in the first week I learned a lot about the modern teaching method. Also, I was lucky to audit several classes by my instructors. This really teaches me a new lesson. The knowledge and skills we acquired at school is not enough when we get to work. Opportunity only goes to those who are already prepared. I think from now on I will be very glad to get challenged at all times.
To teach in such a new way is actually not a breeze. Every weekend after teaching online in the weekdays, we have a classroom meeting. The students are supposed to propose their questions of the relative course. They work very hard in their study, which means I have to be so fully prepared about my lesson that I will not disappoint them. Therefore, everyday I forced myself to prepare my lesson: studying the book, go online to search relative resources, writing the teaching plan, devising the class and even practicing giving a lecture in advance.
I still remember my first class a couple of weeks ago. I was very nervous at first. More than sixty eyes stared at me. At that time, I was stressed out. Ten minutes later, I gradually relaxed and gave the lesson calmly. I tried my best to make the class proceed smoothly: offering the outline of each unit in the book, underlining the language focus and major points, answering the questions and assigning the homework. All the students were completely involved in the class. After class, most of them surrounded me with smiles and thanked for my wonderful performance and said how much they liked the class. I felt flattered. In the meantime, I suddenly found I was so happy to be a teacher. It is really a pleasure that you are trusted and appreciated for your work by others. They considered me as their close friends. Never had I been so sure that I would choose teaching as my undertaking.
For the rest of the month I kept doing all I can to finish my work. Not only for the students, but also for myself. When the practice came to the end, the dean of the department and my tutors gave me a high valuation. As for myself, I take this experience as a beginning of my future studying and working. Thanks to this practice, I learned a lot everyday and strengthened my will to devote myself to the education in the near future. My one-month practicing teaching is over, but my striving after my ideal will never stop!