Teacher Nuha's English Blog

A future English teacher asked my opinion on what makes a good English teacher: Pinkrosehijau  said... Teacher nuha, I really love to read your blog.. I really interested being an english teacher , but I do not have super duper English as other teacher do.. it make me got inferiority complex einthin me.. =.( what's ur opinion March 28, 2011 2:26 PM My response : Dear Pinkrosehijau, Thanks for visiting my blog. Teachers are lifelong learners. We always have to continue enhancing our knowledge and teaching skills. In my humble opinion, everybody has potentials to be great. I think it all starts from a positive mindset. A positive mind leads to positive attitudes. Nobody's perfect including me. I do the following to help better myself as an English teacher: Speak English to other English teachers & students.  Get advice from the experienced English teachers. Read English novels during my leisure time. Blog about the teaching & learning of English. I see

(Source of Picture:  http://www.primary-education-oasis.com/images/teachingwritingtochildren.jpg ) On 8 March 2011, I attended an English Grammar Reinforcement Workshop (Bengkel Pemantapan Tatabahasa Bahasa Inggeris) hosted by the Education Department of the Sepang District (PPD Sepang) which was held at SM Teknik Sepang. As the name of the workshop implies, we were taught about past and present perfect tenses. The lesson was okay and useful even though  I felt quite disappointed as I was enthusiastically expecting that the attendees will be having a workshop on HOW to teach grammar.  The second session of the course caught my attention as it discussed about the teaching of writing. The speaker, who is an experienced English teacher from SMKBBST shared her techniques which she finds effective on how she normally go about teaching writing to her students. I'd like to share the speaker's ideas: Pick a topic/question where students have to write a DW essay. (I think te