Future Teaching Career Goals

Everyone has their own ambitions and perspective toward life. For me, my ambition is that I want to be a professor in the near future. Actually, I have my own plan. After I graduate from PUC, I am going to open a language schools in my province and I will pursue my MA in TESOL when my schools run smoothly. I am going to be a language teacher forever because I have my own school.  Being a language teacher, I will have chance to help young generation in term of educating them to have knowledge and morality in lives.

To be a successful educator, I always try to set and achieve my future professional goals. Having been teaching English as a foreign and as a second language for over 6 years since 2005, I have achieved many long term and short term goals. From next month, I will be a full time English language in private school in rural area, Siem Reap Province in which I am going to run my own language school by myself. This new challenging teaching position and language school director require me to set my new professional goals and try to accomplish those goals according to my timeline. To be a successful and passionate English teacher, Future Teaching Career Goals are:

1.     Although I am an English language educator with many years’ teaching experience, I feel it is very necessary for me to refine my knowledge of English language. As a professional language teacher, I must ensure to teach students the knowledge with 100% accuracy, and share the beauty and richness of global culture with my students. I must also learn the new technology which will enable me to teach and prepare the instructional materials which reflect 21^st century ideals for future ready students. Live and learn will always be my motto.

2.     I will take every opportunity to participate in ongoing professional development to get a thorough understanding of the National Standards of Foreign Language Teaching and Language Teaching Methodology. With the new approaches of language teaching I will design my curriculum, so that my students will have opportunities to collect, organize, interpret, evaluate and present information critically and creatively in a variety formats.

3.     With the accumulated past teaching experience, I will continue to study the new theories of methodology and pedagogy of language acquisition. Those theories will help me to discover new strategies to teach the target language in a communicative authentic context. Therefore, my students will apply what they learn in my class immediately in their daily life, and reinforce their newly learned language through the authentic communication.

4.     I will work as a liaison between the school and community to advocator English language by involving the parents in their children’ education and inviting the community to provide resources for my students to learn the culture and practice the target language.

5.     I will also work hard to bridge my school with the schools in Cambodia by establishing twin sister school system. I will invite English proficiency educators from varieties of places to teach my students English language and encourage my students to practice the language by using effective teaching materials and aid and use the language in the real world.

6.     I will pursue my Master Degree in TESOL to enlarge my knowledge in language teaching and finally, I will pursue my Ph.D.