Teacher Future Essay

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My Future as a Teacher (TEFL Essay 1) If I have a Crystal ball, the first thing I will try to see is, how I see my self as a teacher. Not only a teacher, an English teacher. When I see my self as an English teacher in the not so far way future, I have to say that one my biggest advantages will be that will speak a perfect Spanish. Therefore I can teach English more effectively to Hispanic native students. I know for a fact that I will be a very active teacher, who will be helping students feel comfortable with speaking in their new language. I would like to say in this short essay all the good things that will make me a good English teacher, make a list of all the roles as a description of myself, but to be honest only one will apply, the counseling/enabling role. By using everyday situations, I will teach to my students how to speak and write English in professional world. Watching carefully those students that make mistakes, keeping a list of those mistakes in my journal, so I can have a clear picture of which areas they need more help for understanding. These methods could help make students more active and independent when they practice speaking. A very common problem I see often in some friends who use English as their second language is that they speak English thinking in their primary language, not taking into consideration that the translations not always go according to the context of what they are really thinking. For example: once I went with a friend to this comic book convention in San Fransisco, we were on the road, wen all the sudden his tire blew up. He went to the trunk to look for the spare, but there he notice he did not had jack to change the tire. A policeman came to aid us, and my friend ask him for a cat. The policeman did not understand, my friend said he need it a cat to change the tire, because he left his at home. I told my friend

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