Why are you participating in the TEFL program at SNHU? How do you hope this program will affect your professional future? The only reason why I attend TEFL programs. First, I have got an inspiration from a person who is an English instructor for flight attendants in an airline company. As matter of fact, she is my brother's girl freind. She works for an airline company where I used to do my internship for undergraduate. I love her job which she has to deal with English all the time. Why SNHU? There are couple reasons why I choose this school. First, this school provides many interesting courses. Seconds, the tuition is affordable. Third, all teachers and staff are nice to me. What are you objectives for this course? (i.e. be able to use technology in my classroom more effectively, become a YouTube star, do as little work as possible but get at least a 'B') Generally,I wish I could be in advanced in using technology after taking this course. Particularly, I wish I could have some skills on webpage design or at least be more able to decorate my Hi5!!! What is the 'best case scenario' for your teaching future? What would you like to be doing, 5, 10, 20 years down the road? I really have no ideas what i am going to do or be in the future in this moment. It is because I have many plans in my mind and i cant come up with any particular idea right now. I might be a kindergarten's teacher, an English instructor in an airline company, or a translator.

  Well, they asked me to teach this course and I welcomed the opportunity to get back into a classroom.  CALL was of particular interest because I had taught ESL overseas for 10 years and have spent  much of the past few years focusing on Educational Technology. I hope my involvement here serves as a  pivot into a career stage that includes online education and EFL learning content production.

There have been so many rapid changes in technology and social connectedness that have yet to really take hold in the world of education.  I hope this course will be an opportunity to experiment with putting some of those possiblities into practice. Specifically, I hope to use the technology to provide a truly student directed path to learning about and practicing CALL. I hope we are also able to build a useful foundation of resources and guides that will help those that follow do the same.

For more than a decade,  I have been experimenting with live, interactive streaming and other 'new media' technologies to help people connect, learn, and collaborate. My best case scenario career-wise would be to earn a living doing a combination of things I enjoy - producing interactive media (educational and otherwise), teaching (online and f2f) about  how these collaborative technologies can be used in education, and building/managing online communities that use these tools for personal/professional development and positive social change. 

Why are you participating in the TEFL program at SNHU? How do you hope this program will affect your professional future?

Even though I had never really thought about becoming a teacher when I was younger, I've been always interested in learning other languages and cultures. When I was going to the school in RI, I was taking ESL along with the regular classes, and had this most amaizing teacher that I ever met, who is inspiring and told me about TESOL. I also wanted to challege myself to do something that is a totally new area for me. I knew I should be in a place that's not a big city or doesnt have beaches so I can stay away from any distraction, but I didn't want to be too far from a city. I heard about TEFL at SNHU and that's somehow I ended up being here.
I feel that I've been learning a lot in this program. When I started this program, I was a little unsure if this was good for me, but
now I feel more confident than I was, and I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm sure what I studied in this program will affect on my career in the future.

What are you objectives for this course? (i.e. be able to use technology in my classroom more effectively, become a YouTube star, do as little work as possible but get at least a 'B')

One objective that I'm hoping to achieve is to be able to post videos on YouTube. I was actually trying to do it the other day, but I had to give it up because it was just so complicated.

What is the 'best case scenario' for your teaching future? What would you like to be doing, 5, 10, 20 years down the road?

I am thinking it would be interesting to be teaching Japanese to the speakers of foreign languages some time in the future, as well as teaching English to Japanese people. That's one goal I have this moment.

I am in this program for a couple of reasons, the first being that my experiences working with ELLS as a writing tutor here at SNHU during my undergrad days opened my eyes to the struggles people have while being emerged in a new culture. The second is a more selfish reason-the money. A master's degree bumps you up on the pay scale in the public school system, and I need all the help I can get. I think the final factor in joining the program was my boyfriend. Although he was born in NYC, his L1 is Spanish. Over the years, I have learned so much more about the experiences of immigrants and their children from his family. They really gave me a more personal reason to get involved.

My objectives are to learn more and try to use technology more effectively in my classroom, or at least pressure people to allow me to!

Best case scenario would be for me to get out of Language Arts and into teaching ESOL (possibly even getting out of middle school...one can only stay there so long with out going crazy). Maybe much later on down the road moving out of the whole public school system thing. Of course, (and forgive me if I sound lame) I would love to have kids and take a break from it all together, but we shall see what happens!

Why are you participating in the TEFL program at SNHU? How do you hope this program will affect your professional future?
I was inspired to be a teacher by my parents. My father teaches in the university which I graduated from and my mom was a kindergarten teacher.I growed up with all those education topics and discussions. I chose English Education as my majoy and was trained as a middle school English teacher. I taught four years when I was a college student. I worked with different levels and age groups, trying to find out my favorite. Until now I'm still not sure I like to teach little kids in kindergarten or adults better. After graduation, I did not continue teaching, but worked in an international company for some reason. After I realized I still love teaching, I quit my job and came here to continue my dream to be a teacher. I like this program because it's very practical. We have opportunities to real teach in IEP. I feel disappointed when I think of my future teaching in China. A lot of good methodologies I learned here can not use (or is not suitable to use)in China because of the class size,different culture,different educational system.

What are you objectives for this course?
I'm so eager to learn more about computer. When I taught in high school,we had one computure in each classroom. I tried to use computure in teaching,but it was kind of embrassed that students always know more about computure than me. My objective is simple:how to use computer to support my teaching. Is it possible to do little but get at least a "B"? I don't think so. So that work hard and do as much as you can to get best grade.

What is the 'best case scenario' for your teaching future? What would you like to be doing, 5, 10, 20 years down the road?
My "best case scenario" is teaching either kindergarten kids or adults. It's so hard to work with moody teenagers. I think I will teach in 5 or 10 years, but I don't know where or who I'm going to teach.

1) Why are you participating in the TEFL program at SNHU? How do you hope this program will affect your professional future?

- Well, life is strange. On the one hand, it feels like it just happened to me by accident, and I just ended up here. On the other, I can see a pattern of interests which I have pursued, and which have popped up again and again. For me, a major interest is language - I studied French & Latin in grade and high school, majored in German and took some Russian in university. Then, a selection of jobs, which fed into almost 20 years as a tech writer. Then technology/markets/whatever made me redundant, which forced me to rethink and retool. Part of that was dusting off the German. Then it occurred to me that businesses always want a native speaker first. So, TEFL is the other side of the mirror from German: I know what it's like to be the one struggling in a foreign language, which gives me empathy for EFL/ESL learners.

2) What are you objectives for this course? (i.e. be able to use technology in my classroom more effectively, become a YouTube star, do as little work as possible but get at least a 'B')

- I'm OK learning the HOW of new technologies, but I'm REALLY interested in the WHY and WHEN and IF of using them.

3) What is the 'best case scenario' for your teaching future? What would you like to be doing, 5, 10, 20 years down the road?

- I want to learn how to think more clearly, and then teach others. I have a suspicion that thinking requires a lot more listening to the still, small voice, and slowly, carefully working through that old, boring thing: the logical argument. If that means throwing the Amish nuke at technology, so be it. (Harumph, harumph, harumph ... ;-)

I see technology as a delivery tool, but for far too many, an unquestioningly accepted, and therefore dangerous, shift in context. Consider video - if a repressive government kills people, and no video is made or downloaded to YouTube, did those people really die?

So, an ideal result of this course would be changing into an informed and critical consumer and commentator on this technology tsunami. And if I could get a paycheck for being a kvetch, so much the better.

Fran Watson

Why are you participating in the TEFL program at SNHU?
I wanted to take teaching English one step further than teaching native English speakers in American secondary schools.

How do you hope this program will affect your professional future?
It will provide me diverse teaching situations in different countries around the world.

What are you objectives for this course?
To obtain another outlet to disperse information to students besides the whiteboard, overhead projector, and powerpoint.

What is the 'best case scenario' for your teaching future? What would you like to be doing, 5, 10, 20 years down the road?
Teaching in different countries and getting another degree either in Linguistics or Reading. I want nothing to do with Administration.

Why am I here? It is a good question. I am here because I want to be an English teacher and please don't ask me why I want to be a teacher,because it would be another story.
I hope this program can help me prepared for the teaching in the future, both from knowledge and experience.
I have 2 simple objectives for this course. One is really get some technology skills that can be used in my teaching and make my class more efficiently and interesting. The other one is get a good grade.
I have not considered so seriously about my teaching in the future, but I really want to be a good teacher. I want to teach students the necessary knowledge and at the same time I want to be their friend.

Maggie

I'm here because I was inspired 3 years ago to become an ELL instructor and I knew I wanted to reach out to the immigrant and refugee populations that are moving into NH. When I finished my BA at UNH, I had no idea what I wanted to do professionally and I tried a couple of different jobs before falling into the Manchester School District. With my masters, I will be considered more of an expert in my field and I will hopefully be able to achieve even more with the students that I teach everyday.

My objectives for this course are very simple: I just want to become more comfortable using technology and feel like I can understand and even potentially use some of the more advanced and exciting programs available today. I have also recently been inspired by a fellow ELL instructor who has built a webquest project with 5th graders that has been submitted to a national competition. This was an exciting project to watch unfold, and I hope that someday I will feel comfortable getting involved with such a bold educational tool.

Best case scenario, I will continue to teach for another 5- 10 years, and then hopefully move on to doing more direct work with the immigrant and refugee families of NH, such as school social worker or something similar.

Honestly, I am participating in the MS-TEFL program at SNHU because International Admission and the School of Education couldn't make sense of my British Education and qualifications and consequently did not know how to enroll me into my preferred Masters program. In the UK, I am a School Administrator (Headmaster) but since my career path did not match that of an American Administrator I was a bit of an anomaly. However, since enrolling on the course I have viewed it as an opportunity to change career or at least subject.

I would like to gain experience teaching ESOL so that I can return to Europe and teach English closer to home. At present I speak German, but also plan to learn Spanish from September, once my Masters program has finished. My intention is to then become proficient to some degree in both languages.

I don't really have any objectives for this course, other than to complete it to the best of my ability. I am taking it because it is a requirement of the MS-TEFL program, not because of my love of computers. I know it will push me beyond my comfort zone and beyond frustration, but I do like a challenge. I am very competitive, particularly with myself and this will add to my frustration, but I know I will come out at the need of the course having loved it and gained from it.

Best scenario for my teaching career would be to return home.

I have no idea what I'll be doing in 5, 10 or 20 years time. My husband's plan it to retire to Spain and teach in an English Language School.

Betty Cornell

I am in the TEFL program at SHNU because it was time to train for a new career, and I thought that teaching English to speakers of other languages would be a worthwhile and rewarding career for me.

As far as the course goes, while I've been using computers and email since 1995 (good way to communicate with my daughter in college and keep my job...very motivating!), there is SOOO much I don't know, and I'm fascinated by exploring the possibilities 'out there'. Maybe by the end of the course, I'll know how to answer using audio or video. The possibilities are mind-boggling!

I really don't know what's ahead for me, except that I do want to teach ESL/EFL after I finish my Master's, and that I would very much prefer not to do so in the public schools.