If your vision is for a year, plant wheat.

If your vision is for ten

years, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people- An
old Chinese proverb.
I strongly believe, planting a strong introductory base to the learners of
English is a must ingredient to upkeep their future wisdom. English itself is
a brand language which exposes us to the updated world; therefore
teaching and learning process of English as a language is considered a
heavy-duty. To me a teacher is someone who enlightens the whole world
at a time. Teaching is always the only profession which brings mastery on
other sectors. As far as my assertiveness goes, great teachers teach from
the heart, not from books. To teach there must be learners who internalize
and retain information through a conscious process under cognitive,
emotional, and environment friendly conditions which I label as learning
processes. Since I never have taught English as a second language (ESL)
formally, my teaching values are built on few experiences of in-class
teaching under TESOL courses and the knowledge I gained as a student of
ESL through my lifespan.
As an instructor my view point is to assist the students prospective to
produce advanced level learners. The concentration of a mentor is to
create self-dependent students. I am certain that pupils come to
classroom with some pre-existing knowledge whether in a linguistic form
or subconscious real life experiences. So, I would encourage my students
to capitalize on their strengths to sharpen their understanding of English
language. Real life context shows us that East-Asian students are more
proficient on bookish knowledge than conversational fluency. Therefore I
will tend to be more sincere to build their communicative competence.
When I was a student of primary or secondary levels of English, I used to
memorize grammatical rules and translations to learn correct English
language but I was never exposed to actual application of such knowledge
in existent world. It has been a long time to change the teaching
procedures and make students use the knowledge practically in
convenient way.
I would like to design my lesson plans in a way to build competent
learners gradually having all the four skills- speaking, listening, reading,
and writing because to me any language learning is incomplete without
the proper adaptation to all of these. Apparently, to handle any odd
situations readily in target language environment learners need such
proficiency. So providing learners native-fluency in target language would
be my aim definitely. As for teaching strategies that I followed while
teaching as a TESOL student or observed from the respective language
instructors, I would love to make students teacher directed instead of

teacher-dependent. A student using individual strategies to improve in

lesson is more likely to meet success. In this regard peer-feedback must
be introduced along with pair or group works along and after task
discussions as well.
Activities should be designed in a way to bring the creativity in limelight.
To me creativity is one of the most under-utilized human characteristics in
the context of language learning. It can be used in writing while
developing ideas or paraphrasing topics avoiding plagiarism. Creativity
nourishes each mind in oral production even with limited vocabularies.
Hence I would encourage students to use language creatively to express
themselves. In my early ESL learning periods, I along with all students had
specific grammar book where there were several essays on some
mainstream issues like Journey by Boat, Punctuality, Newspaper,
Village Fair etc. No one motivated us to think out of the box and write a
few words on our own. I am not against memorization since it is often a
necessity but where there is a scope of reflecting own thoughts and views,
teachers should do a justice to the originality of human brains.
Next, student-student interactions erase the psycho-academic hesitations
of the learners in an ESL classroom, I believe. From this respect students
feelings must get nurtured providing motivations and friendly
environment. For example, sometimes when I go to my brothers school
who is in kg II of an English medium, I find his classroom wall filled with
color splashes and drawings of English alphabets and animals. The tablechairs are different colored as well as each section has different color
names. Such surrounding indeed motivates young learners to learn
English subconsciously. Simple words like, I know you can grasp this
concept can motivate students to work harder. This is why often learners
native language and interactive teaching materials along with
inspirational phrases must be provided to offer a vibe of acquaintance.
Afterward when context is hard to clarify, an instructor should adopt
techniques like playing question-answer games, and gymnastic exercises
to lower the affective filter of the students- at least my experiences of
being a learner say so. Apart from regular lectures, often guest speakers
of respective courses should be invited to give the learners a glimpse of
practical application of the learning.
Correcting error and evaluating students knowledge are two significant
points while teaching as a mentor. To measure students level of
understanding their in-class performances and group activities must be
observed following some formal tests. In this aspect the teacher should
always be concerned about the weaker students because of their low
marks. Low profiled students always need to be boosted up to remain

motivated for future good grades since academic knowledge matters in

real life. Next, correcting the errors of learners is a matter of great
mastery for a good teacher for wrong way of showing mistakes can
dishonor their self-pride which can cause disinterest among the learners.
In beginning classes, the teacher should respond to the errors more gently
leaving the minor errors but with time, the teacher should fine-tune
students knowledge by correcting more specific errors. Often it can be
done while giving feedback or instantly by repeating the correct sentence.
Sometimes it also can be done through self-correction by the students.
But no matter what the way is, the main aim is that the learners do not
feel offended or discouraged at any period.
While wrapping up the last words I want to state a quotation of Robert
Frost- There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with
so much quail shot that you cant move, and the kind that gives
you a prod behind and you jump to the skies. Therefore becoming
the second type should be an ideal dream of an ESL instructor who would
be more like an awakener of the potentials of the students. Since
knowledge is versatile, specific teaching researches should be done to
keep pace with the upgraded facts to fulfill inquiries of the learners. Apart
from this, broadening of cultural awareness is necessary to teach English
excellently. Finally while spreading up own beliefs of teaching in the paper
I realized providing effective learning is the hardest job and teaching it
right is a greater responsibility indeed.