My Biography

   Subject currency
In order to maintain my subject currency I do my best to attend and take advantage of all the training offered by the college, which is essential to continue with my development.   They always have a great variety of courses which applies to teaching and learning. The training varies from workshops to, online training such as the VLE and one to one tuition. I feel that to maintain your subject currency one has to not only attend training but to share, put it into practice and reflect. Another thing I tend to do is to seek the advice of others, by asking the learners at the end of each class, whether it is oral or through their completed daily journal and by asking my peers to observe me and give me advice in how to improve or adapt the lesson. This has proved to be great way of keeping up with your teaching standards, you are able to almost immediately make corrections.   In addition to it, is the appraisal where I get to received feedback from my line managers and add this to my action plan. It was suggested to work on bringing the programme to full achievement, this has proved to be hard, however, I am making progress and results have improved. Teaching has been challenging,   yet very rewarding, as every learner is different in terms of their needs and levels and the short time I have with them, in order to prepare them for Cambridge ESOL examinations, often proves to be difficult in particularly level 1. In previous   years we have come just under the national average, however, due to the training received we have managed to increase the pass rate and the examinations taken in December, 2011   10 out of ten learners passed   their speaking and listening at level 1 and every learner but one, who did the   reading examination passed. I am very proud of this achievement. This success demonstrates how I have always embraced any opportunity that I have been presented with, to develop my knowledge and skills, enabling me to grow into a better teacher,...