As a teacher I see my mission as helping students to find themselves in the future, to empower and inspire them to independent, creative thinking, teaching them to take responsibility for what is happening throughout the world. I am an English teacher, an educator, and a social investigator, a solid and active member of my pedagogical community.
I am adept at performing my responsibilities in my everyday work and I have developed my own teaching philosophy, built on the shoulders of those educators that I have most admired. I like to focus on continuous professional development through reflective practices, both in my own attempt to constantly improve as a teacher, as well as with my students. I try to achieve my goals through careful planning, delivering precise instruction and promoting positive student behavior in my classroom.
I especially love teaching English, preparing for my lessons, finding new methods, and introducing new technological tools. I have become increasingly creative with greater experience. Educating young people provides me with a profound sense of achievement and purpose in life. Just as I believe in lifelong education, I also believe that we can always improve as citizens of the world. I feel privileged to live in the era of the Internet, which has given us all many novel ways to learn about our world and to interact with it. I am also enormously proud to teach an international language, our only truly global language, English.
I feel keenly inspired every day to meet new challenges and to work to implement needed reforms in our educational system. While myself and my more experienced colleagues inevitably face great challenges and even contradictions in our practice, I believe that Kazakhstan will succeed in building an internationally competitive educational space over the course of the next few decades.
Patriotic and optimistic, I believe that my country will be one of the leaders in fostering global education in Central Asia. We have made great progress at the construction, refinement and adaptation of pedagogical principles and processes to our unique context in Kazakhstan. I have encountered many practical problems in my teaching experience and although I can often find solutions by consulting relevant works by Western educators, I yearn for more direct professional contact and collaboration with respect to many issues as we continue to advance in education. I am especially attracted to the way in which the XXXX Program provides a fantastic opportunity to develop professionally and to acquire invaluable skills and contacts that will play a crucial role in my ongoing professional advancement, helping me to make my maximum contribution to both secondary and higher education in my country.
Empowering Students Through Purposeful Teaching in Kazakhstan
Comments