Today I started my solo teaching this semester. At the beginning of class, I felt more nervous without my partner turning on the camera with me in the classroom. However, things went more smoothly than I thought, which gave me more confidence to teach solo. It looks like students are more familiar with the way we teach.

The highlighted part I feel proud of is that I display grammar rules by adding pictures I drew to stimulate student’s visual learning, and they love it.  Students are interested in what we taught for the grammar lab.  One of the students even asked if I could share those pictures with them. They think this is a simple and easy way to help them learn Grammar well. Besides, sharing a high-quality video and creating breakout rooms can facilitate students to rethink what they learned from it, and deepen their memory by exchange the idea with other students’ perspective. Another thing is to respect students’ way to interact with teachers. For some of them, it is completely fine to speak out in class, but some of them prefer listening than speaking, what we need to do is to keep checking if those students understand what we taught before.

The most challenging thing for me is to be professional and authorial as a teacher teaching grammar. In this class, I set up a part for students to create 5 types of adverb clauses. After bringing them back, we went through those sentences with help from Brian. That made me realize that I am unable to correct them and give them the right feedback. Therefore, being professional is a key point as an English teacher.

The happiest moment in this class is the compliment and acceptance from students. During I was checking students when they were doing group work in breakout rooms. Some of them said that they love to join our grammar lab every Thursday because they think the way we taught is simple and easy for them to know grammar rules and they love practices.