Week 1: Hello

Hello everyone,

My name is Aurelie Kenfack I am a bilingual major and TESOL minor of course. The more I think about what I want to do the more I just want to focus on TESOL. When I first came to the USA, I had no knowledge of English so I was placed in an ESL class.  There I learned the language to communicate with my peers and others around me. That is the reason why I decided to be an educator. I want to help other achieve what I did and more. In my perfect world, I want to teach to in an elementary class filled with students from different backgrounds. Whenever I talk about my experience, I always mention the teachers that inspired me to become who I am today.  Being that I want to be an educator myself, my goal is to achieve that same goal, I want to inspire others. Knowing that there exists no perfect teacher, I still want to be the perfect teacher for my students; because the idea of being a perfect teacher entails that all my students will succeed. This is the unrealistic dream of all passionate educators. I hope at the end of the course I am able to, as the course objective says, “learn how to maximize language opportunities for diverse students”. As a future educator, I want to be able to provide my students with the necessary tools for them to be successful in not only acquiring but also mastering the language.