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Greater St. Louis Area United States

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Education

The classroom isn’t about teaching, it is about learning, and learning has to begin and end with the student. I hold to the constructivist belief that learning has to be constructed through life experience. In an ESL classroom this requires the presentation of authentic situations in a compassionate environment that challenges the students without overloading them with information. I want my students to finish my class with a new perspective on learning, language, and culture. While some students learn a new language just for fun, most learn language as a tool for some other goal. As a teacher it is my job to learn what the students’ goals are beyond the language classroom, and th...