Throughout my college years, I had volunteer experience at JC Blair Hospital (in PA). The first volunteer site was the Dietary department, where I did typing, printing, photocopying, running all kinds of errands, supplying the entire office machine, and even fixing the mechanical problem with the machines. Not only I did office work but also coordination work such as greeting patients, talking to them about their daily life, walking them through the dietary menus, asking them about dietary issues, and helping dietitians to correspond to patients. I also volunteered in the Children Partial Program at the hospital. The Children Partial Program is where practitioners intervene children with behavioral issues. My responsibilities were to eat with the children in the cafeteria, to help the children to understand school materials (math and English), and to prevent the children from misbehaving. From these volunteer experiences, I learned that actively and genuinely interacting with individuals is very helpful for them to be mentally stable and behave appropriately, and I gained much knowledge of how to approach people and make them feel comfortable in multiple setting.
I had studied in the states for 8 years from high school to graduate school. Throughout this time, I often experienced caucasians' tendency to look down upon international students like me. In order to be friends with them, I had to put up with their jokes about my country and ethnicity, and this may have shaped me to react to any their negative name-calling with a positive and calm attitude toward them. As I became more used to these types of situations, I developed into a more flexible and easy-going person. Because of this new enlightened attitude, I was able to form trusting and lasting relationships with many American students, and I also made friends of many other Europeans and international students, regardless of their classes and majors. People may have thought that I am stupid and wondered why I put up with all the racism assaults to make friends, but in result I could develop myself to be flexible with any possible discriminated situation in the future.
I have three strengths in terms of teaching.
First one is creativity. I can constantly think of new and interesting ways to conceptualize ideas and planning new method to teach students effectively. For example, I research and make a possible speaking question which may appear in real TOEFL test. So i can challenge my students to think and borad their perspective more to be ready for most of the speaking prompt.
Second one is attention. I generally ask students why they choose this answer or why they speak certain contents, so i can have them interact with me and engage in class. If i see certain student having difficulty in catching up with lecture, I try to customize my course pace for the student.
Third one is humor. Since i believe that humor helps solidify student learning, I often use celebrity issue or joke for students to stay concentrated and form a lasting memory about lecture content.
With these strengths, I am confident that I can do my best to maximize any opportunity in any given situation at your company, and I strongly believe that I am capable of going through many obstacles ahead of me in terms of work or personal issues at your company.
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