Pan Long Jinchen Middle School 盘龙区金辰中学 杨娜 Yang Na

The background of my education:  I graduated from the English Education department in Kunming Normal College in  In 1999, I went to Yunnan Normal University. I have taken correspondence course in the English Department for three years.  In 2002,I got Bachelor degree.

My understanding to English education:  1. To help students set up the basic of learning English.  2. To help students master the methods of learning English, so that they can learn more by themselves.  3. To coach students in listening, speaking, reading and writing in class, to build up their abilities.  4. To be honest, in our daily teaching, we have to spend too much time teaching students how to do exercise and how to get good grades in exams.

What I am confused in teaching:  1. There is no language environment for Chinese students to practice English. The hardly have any opportunities to speak English after class.  2. There is too much knowledge for students to learn. Students feel under much pressure.  3. What they learn is hard for students, they feel afraid to learn English.  4. Students have to recite too many vocabularies, phrases, sentences and passages, or they can’t get good grades in English. Many students don’t work had, they even give up studying English.  5. It’s hard to develop many students’ reading ability within limited teaching time.  6. Most students get good grades in English not because they are interested in English, but because they are forced to learn by their teachers and parents.

What I am satisfied with myself:  1. I think I am a little good at speaking and listening in English..  2. I am familiar to what I teach.

How to promote myself?  1. Try to arrange more time in reading English magazines and newspapers, listening to English radios or tapes, watching English videos.  2. Learn from other experienced teachers in teaching.  3. If I had opportunities to practice my English, I would be glad to do it.  4. Learn on the Internet.  5. Try to do some research in teaching with my collegues.

What I am interested in in American education?  1. How do you evaluate the students in America? Do students’ grades come first?  2. How do you evaluate a teacher?  3. In America class, how to develop students’ interest in learning?  4. How do you develop students’ reading ability in everyday teaching.