Anchal: United Kingdom: Sep 01, 2019

My strengths lie in my ability to communicate well with others, I use clarity and concision to convey my ideas. I am also a good listener, which is just as important. I am confident in myself and I am able to stand up in front of a group of people and channel that confidence into whatever I am talking about. I am a hard-worker but I am also easy-going, I like to balance the two and feel that it will be particularly important in the classroom.
I am very passionate about education, especially educating young people in a way that opens up unlimited opportunities for them. I am keen to fuse my passion for education and my interest in new cultures and ways of living while I work and live abroad. I believe that education is the way to change our world for the better and I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm and passion with the children and young people I will be teaching. I think that teachers are important for helping young people stand on their own feet and look at the world in a more open-minded way, which I hope to do.
I have experience informally teaching English to people of varying ability. Whilst volunteering at the Hope Café in Athens I helped people of all ages improve their English, I noticed that the children were particularly driven to reach a level of near fluency and so I dedicated much of my time to helping them. I also attended Conversation Club while at university, which involved helping the local refugees (from many different countries) improve their English. I believe that this has given me much needed experience of communicating with people who do not speak English as a first language.
I am currently studying a 120-hour combined TEFL course, during this course I have come to appreciate the challenges and rewards that come with teaching English as a foreign language. I have found it fascinating learning my native language from this perspective an it has given me a deeper appreciation of the language and the importance of teaching it well to others.