Strengths:
– Experience:
– I have strengths in working well in a team with teaching and non-teaching staff, by for example helping out with school events such as Music concerts, Sports Day and School trips. I have assisted with the administration paperwork for these events in a Trainee Teaching Assistant role when I was doing my placement at Bowerham Primary School in Lancaster, UK.
– Skills:
– Through completing my Teaching Assistant placement and qualification (NVQ) I have now developed my interpersonal skills by knowing how to effectively listen and communicate with the classroom teacher on the KS2 English curriculum as well as knowing how the school regulates exams for their pupils and the methods they use to teach English to an ESL pupil. I can take all my Teaching Assistant training and put those skills to use in an ESL Teacher role in South Korea to a younger class range.
– I have greatly developed my self-initiative/problem-solving skills having had some experience working in a Primary school, so I can now confidently in an English teaching role have the initiative to solve the solutions to problems whether it be an IT/technical issue for a lesson starter.
– Through my Teaching Assistant training as well as retail/sales work I have gained a more commercial awareness of how each organisation or educational institution operates. For a school that can be their 'Ethical values' and for a workplace 'Mission Statement/Core principles'. So, to have a working knowledge of that particular school and an English Teacher role in an Asian country will also stand you in good stead in a virtual interview with the employer.
– I have now more in depth organisational skills from having some experience in a Teaching Assistant role and taking on Administration tasks to support the classroom teacher such as photocopying, printing and putting up displays of pupils work in the classroom. So, having undertaken these in this role I can now apply them to an ESL Teacher role. My multi-tasking skills have greatly improved from having some experience working in an school setting, and this skill is very much needed in an English Teaching position especially in educational institutions in other countries particularly South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China.
Personality Traits:
– I have a lot of determination as an individual and employee- one of my key personal attributes, and I have demonstrated this in non-teaching job roles and I did so in my Teaching Assistant position when I was tasked by another teacher to do classroom Behavioural Management with a group of pupils in year 3 as they had been disrupting their peers from their class project on creative writing so I gave them a warning (based on a traffic light system) (red) in a firm manner, if they continued to misbehave them I would give them a written warning (amber), and if that failed then they would be sent to to the headteacher. So I could apply this classroom behaviour tactic at one of your schools in South Korea.
– I am a hardworking individual and I like to seek more responsibility and a work load, and I did this as a Trainee Teaching Assistant to show the teacher I was supporting as well as the other teaching staff that I am hardworking and I won't slack on the job.
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