My Ideas

       Hi everyone! My name is Yunus Can and I'm writing this from METU Norther Cyprus Campus.

I'm a student in Teaching English as a Foreign Language programme. I prepared this short   interview-ish  writing for to give some information about my teaching beliefs. I hope it would be helpful to all of you.

1-What is a teacher job?
 
    There are many debates about this subject but what I'm going to try is to express my understanding about this definition. According to my perspective teaching is not solely sending a comprehensible information to learners for them to create their own knowledge database. For me it is more efficient and more meaningful. As teachers we are touching our student's lives and shaping them just like a sculptor. I personally believe these principles and think them as definition of my job and here they are;

• Mainly creating a person who has moral values, appreciates virtue of hardworking, values the human life, helps the people in need.
• Then creating a student who is well educated, beneficial to humanity, knows how to relate the things that he or she saw in real life with his or her classes.
• Lastly creating an adult who is able to think critically, sure about his or her future career, easily distinguishes scientific truths from false beliefs.

      To wrap-up, our main job may be teaching but we are also creators of the future. We shouldn't forget that and not focus just one area of our job definition.

2-What is my attitude to computers, the Internet and other new technology?

     I love technology very much. Actually a bit too much cause I have a retro computer collection. I try my best to follow the new advances in technology specifically computers and web based teaching systems. For me internet is an indisputable part of today's world and education systems of different countries. Computers and naturally multimedia is very beneficial both for young and adult learners. How? I grow up in one of these called "MLO" schools in Turkey. When a new technology was planned to use in nation-wide, we are one of the first students who experiment with it. When technology injected learning becomes more fun, much more attractive and very motivating. Internet is a great source of information. It helps teachers in their process of teaching and provides them a broad repertoire of materials. Using it surely increases the capacity and broadens the perspective of learners. As a conclusion I'm saying big "YES", I will use them in my class whenever it is possible.

3-What classroom activities are most helpful to learners?
   
       I don't want to focus on any activity specifically, for this reason I'm going try to express my perspective to you. I think they are the activities which;

• Involves their creativity
• Motivates them to search more about the topic
• Gives them the freedom of expressing themselves freely
• Can be related with their daily lives
• Adresses more than one sense of the learners'
• Encourages them to come up with productive questions
• Includes not only direct questions but also indirect questions which are checking the related other topics to the main subject.
• Are totally unique and was not prepared based on an outline or schema, on the contrary prepared thinking the needs of learners'.