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I choose"establishing rapport"as the topic of my summary,cause that's my priority and very important to me.establishing rapport is often overlook and undervalued by teachers.basic my own experience,building rapport with your student actually makes your student value the class more.they more motivated,they participate more.and their focusing class is much better.why? because the experience I had.in my mind we all can pass the exam to be a teacher if we study hard.but that doesn't mean you can be a "qualified" one. I'm from China,I'm still here.we have schools are public and private.for public,teachers are quite strict and they only like students,who studied very good.as long as I can recall,I wasn't good at any subjects.no teachers liked me.until high school,I met a teacher,who taught English.even I was still around "C"and "D"level after the exam,but she just kept encouraging me. I've never met a teacher like her.day by day,I felt I liked English class more and more.I started to raise my hand to answer questions.I became confident then I have never been. I'm not saying that teaching part is not important,but "Establishing rapport" is the first step to me.teachers are the key of the student.It's like "light the matches",you can be a teacher just teach them the knowledge,but how much do you really care them? I think students can feel that,like I felt.cause we were all students once. Let's say,same class by different teacher,and both qualified,but for sure,students will have different responding.so everything I would pull back such as how to teach grammar or vocabulary,or even classroom discipline instead of show my an affinity.I would like to established the relationship first.I wanna students like me,be a friend with me,they can talk to me free with no pressure.such as my teacher did to me.then the knowledge. I shared the story because that's my experience,also I have seen a lot students have the same experience like I had.they suffered with their studies,stressed by their parents.(study is very important in China).even by their teachers.(as I said,teachers only like students with A)I think I wanna be an English teacher,also had some influence by my teacher.if I had never met her,if she had never established the relationship with me.I don't think my English or my personality would be like now.from my experience,build rapport with students also can build their confidence.like English in China,we are too shy to speak it.if teachers can be friends with students,they will not be embarrassed by express themselves in the class. I have experience by teaching adults and kids.but I might just focus on kids in the future.I'm sure I've gave enough reasons.I hope all kids here can learn English well,then they can use the language to see the world.communicate with the world.even study abroad.I have been abroad before,that really changed my mind and broaden my horizon.so I wish kids in China can see the horizon too.that's also why I'm learning TEFL,cause I want to challenge myself,of course be more qualified.and I really enjoyed the course,even part of them were quite difficult to me.ok,I think that's pretty much of my summary,thank you!
