Hello!
My name is Jihyeon Kim from South Korea.
Nice to meet you all. I'm wondering if there is another international student like me in this course.
I'm a high school English teacher in Korea. This is my 5th year of teaching in a public school setting. Before I became a public high school teacher, I had been a private English tutor for more than 10 years in central region of Seoul, Korea. I majored in English Language Education, finished my TESOL course while I was in Vancouver, Canada in 2006 and now I'm putting my efforts to keep up-to-date as an English teacher by enrolling this wonderful Master's course at MSU.
I'm a high school English teacher in Korea. This is my 5th year of teaching in a public school setting. Before I became a public high school teacher, I had been a private English tutor for more than 10 years in central region of Seoul, Korea. I majored in English Language Education, finished my TESOL course while I was in Vancouver, Canada in 2006 and now I'm putting my efforts to keep up-to-date as an English teacher by enrolling this wonderful Master's course at MSU.
My educational philosophy is "Love to Learn, Learn to Love". Although it's not easy to maintain this in my daily life in every single time, I think it's truly helped me to become a better teacher and better learner myself. I really like to learn new things, and my interests focus mainly on music and language. I can play the piano, violin, guitar, and a little bit of flute. I can speak Korean (Sure! I'm Korean.), Chinese and Japanese, not fluent though. Currently I'm learning French by myself with the help of "Youtube teacher". Now I can read and understand what the main page of Yahoo France says!
I am so excited to begin my spring 2013 semester with TE 818. I hope I not only can have an opportunity to learn about curriculum in its social contexts, but also hear from other people's insightful thoughts. Thank you very much!
Hi Jihyeon,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the course!
It's wonderful to have you with us. You very well might be the only person with a different citizenship in our course (I'm still reading introductions now), but we have many people with international teaching experience, including one person currently teaching in Beijing (Larissa). We also have many people interested in music and arts pedagogy--so hopefully you will have the chance to have many rich conversations around areas of great interest to you!
You abilities with languages and music is quite interesting--amazing, really! I am so fascinated by the many cultural practices you have been able to enter into--how did you ever develop such abilities?
I'm interested in how you ended up in Vancouver to study, too. I went to a conference there last year and really, really loved the city! Biking around Stanley Park in the spring was a wonderful experience!!
Welcome to the course, I look forward to learning with you!
Kyle
Thank you so much for your warm welcome!
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see your smile Mr. Greenwalt.
I too look forward to learning with you!
Hope you are happy all the time.