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作者：Ms.Natalie （英国外教/湖南澧县职业技术学校/来源：湖南省外国专家局网站） |
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My life as a teacher began in the United Kingdom 18 years ago, but my real life as a teacher and true educator began as an Oral English Foreign Expert at Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute back in September 2007. I will never forget the moment I first
arrived at the institute for the rest of my life. I was greeted by hundreds of students who welcomed me so warmly as if I were a long lost friend returning from a long journey. The atmosphere and excitement
that I experienced was amazing and I knew immediately that coming
to
China and teaching at Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute had been the best decision of my entire life and teaching career. I was finally somewhere that I could truly call home and this was to be the place where I could be free, creative and passionate about providing the highest possible quality of English Foreign Language education that I was both physically and mentally able to provide.
All of the students who I have taught have always, without exception, shown me the upmost respect. Not just because I am a foreigner who works exceedingly hard both in and out of the language classroom, but because I opened my heart, soul and mind to each and every student, treating them not only with total respect for the unique individuals that they truly are, but as if each and everyone of them was my own child. I have always and will continue to love them all unconditionally and my only goal is to continue to nurture and encourage every student to experience with total joy, the exciting and rewarding world of English foreign language education in a way that they have never before experienced.
The students and I have always worked together as a team because we understand that we are all responsible for the language learning that takes place within each and every lesson and we must continually unite forces in order to be successful. It has always been my belief that as an EFL teacher my primary function is to provide a secure, non-judgemental, anxiety free and 100% trusted teacher-student relationship with each and every student, and it is this trusted bond that is indeed the most important factor within any successful foreign language classroom and especially so at Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute.
My job has always been as a provider, an instigator and a facilitator of knowledge, who simply
pulls out these students’ natural and ever amazing untapped knowledge and talent for speaking
English. My real function as a foreign language expert, however, is not only to encourage students to be individual and creative in their thoughts and opinions, but it is also the co-existence of well thought out and very finely tuned balances of eclectic teaching methodologies and
humanistic approaches that I have adopted, adapted and implemented for each and every foreign language class in order to cater for every learning style and language level. This with a combined with absolute dedication and passion for language teaching has been the true key to unlocking the
door to these students’ EFL success which can so evidentially be seen throughout each and every classroom within the school.
I am also very passionate in my belief that as a foreign language expert it is my fundamental duty to create a good, solid, practical and real-life functional language syllabus to support and enhance not only quality lesson planning and classroom instruction, but fluent and competent communication skills within students. In addition, I am continually and constantly developing a never ending in-depth awareness of students’ educational and emotional needs and this requires me as an EFL instructor to constantly re-evaluate my own professional skills and
undertake any necessary professional development in order to employ an even more finely tuned and higher level of educational standards within my classroom. Student success is worth more to me than anything and my never ending dedication and commitment to Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute will remain.
I can never express enough sincere thanks to the truly valued and never ending support
of all the Leaders, the Vice-Principal’s Mr.Wu, Mr.Peng, Mr.Zhu, Mr.Zhang and Mr.Ren
and especially to the Headmaster Mr. Lu (Louis), who I can only describe as the most outstanding
headmaster I have ever had the privilege and honour to work with in my 18 years as an educator. All of the Leaders’ unquestionable dedication to Lixian Vocational and Tech-nical
Institute and sheer determination that all students have the right to be highly and successfully
educated has continually and will forever, inspired me to educate and give unconditionally, without
shame and most definitely to the best of my ability.
I feel that I must also mention the outstanding staff and English department in Lixian
Vocational and Technical Institute. All of the teachers are not only dedicated to their work, but they genuinely care about the progress of the students and are always willing to provide
support where needed. Weekly staff meetings provide us with a solid forum to discuss class and individual student problems or progress, as well as looking at text books and examination material that needs to be covered and practiced through out the term. We always try to create a positive learning and working environment whilst spending time discussing ways of how we can move forward as a successful team and what needs to be implemented to create continued success within the school.
Working and living in Lixian is a priceless and treasured once in a lifetime experience that can never be truly described, only truly experienced. The local people are inviting, accepting, warmly welcoming and they would do anything for you in order that life and general living is just that little bit easier. I have forged many, many local friendships and believe that these friendships will truly be life long as the locals have accepted me and I accepted them as if we were all part of the same family.
I regularly walk into town and always stop and say hello to people. I have shared many memorable moments of fun and laughter even when at times we can’t communicate in words, body language has provided much entertainment and many smiles all round !
All that I have left to say is that the students at Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute are always and will forever be in my thoughts and heart 24 hours a day because they have made me the richly diverse and experienced foreign expert that I am. Without such diversity and experience I would have never continued to pursue my own professional development and the completion of my MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.
Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute, will always be for me, the number one institution in Hunan. I truly believe that Vocational and Technical Institutions, such as Lixian, will become the desired learning Institutions of the future because they equip students with solid practical life skills that will be so desperately required by International businesses in China’s continued and very successful global expansion. ■
By Natalie Connell
Lixian Vocational and Technical Institute
5th December, 2008
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| Natalie 夫妇（右二、三）与巴克兰海外教育集团、澧县职业技术学校领导合影 |
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我作为一名老师的生活始于18年前的英国，但我真正作为一名教育工作者的生活则始于2007年9月，在湖南省澧县职业中专学校做一名口语老师。在我的下半辈子，我将永远不会忘记我第一次来到学校的那一刻，成千上万的学生都如此热烈的欢迎我，问候我，就好像我是一位刚刚长途旅行回来，许久未见的老朋友，以至于这种我亲历过的氛围和激动人心的场面让我当时以及现在都惊奇不已。让我突然意识到来到中国，来到澧县职业中专学校任教是我一生中所做的最明智的决定。我终于找到一个我可以亲切称之为“家”的地方，在这里我能够无拘无束，敢于创新，慷慨激昂的在行动上和思想上尽我最大的努力去提供最高水平的英语教育。
我所教的学生对我总是尊敬有加，无一例外。这不仅仅是因为我是一名无论在课内还是课外都兢兢业业工作的外籍教师。还是因为我对每一个学生都敞开了我的心扉和灵魂，关注每一个学生。我不仅非常尊重他们每一个人，而且把他们当作了我的孩子。我一直都无条件地爱着他们，唯一的目的就是去不断培养和鼓励每个学生亲身感受英语世界的所有令人快乐、兴奋和舒心的东西。
我的学生和我总是作为一个整体来一起工作、学习。因为我们清楚地知道学习一门语言必须对其负有责任感，并且为了成功，我们必须坚持团结一致的原则。我始终相信作为一名英语外教，我的首要职责是给学生提供一个无忧无虑、各抒己见、信任度达到100%的师生关系。这种师生间信任的结合是成功地进行外语教学的最为重要的因素。而在澧县职业中专，信任的结合显得尤为重要。
一直以来，我的工作只是作为一名知识的提供者、发起者、诱导者，去发掘学生在英语口语方面与生俱来的天赋及尚未发掘出的才能。然而，作为一名外语教师，真正的职责不仅要从学生的思想领域入手，鼓励他们张扬个性，富有创造力，而且要与他们和睦相处，与此同时，要慢慢推敲出多种博采众长的教学方法，并教他们树立人文主义思想来协调与平衡师生关系，对每个班级高低不一的英语水平，我会因材施教。我对教育事业的全身奉献和对它的热爱也随之成为这些学生打开学好英语的成功之门的钥匙，并且这也是全校师生有目共睹的。
我对我的信念非常热诚。我认为作为一名外语教授，编写一个好的实用的教学大纲是最基本的职责，因为所编写的大纲不仅能支持并提高课堂教学和辅导的质量，而且能提高学生的交际水平，使他们的口语更为流利通畅。另外，针对学生们的教育与情绪的需要，我正日夜不停地做一个永不停止地深入研究。这就需要我作为一个外教去不断评估自己的专业技能，并且为了给我所任教的班级设置一个更和谐、更高层次的教育标准，我开始做所有必需的提高专业技能的工作。
对于学校所有领导——邬先生、彭先生、朱先生、张先生以及任先生，尤其是校长卢先生，他们的无尽支持我感激不尽。卢校长是我18年的教育生涯中所见的最杰出的校长，并且我很荣幸我能有机会和他一起工作。毫无疑问，所有领导对于澧县职业中专学校的奉献以及果断的决定使所有的学生有权力被高层次地接受成功教育，这一直并将永远鼓励我没有羞愧的尽我最大的努力、无条件地从事教育事业。
现在，我认为我有必要讲一下澧县职业中专学校英语组的优秀老师们。所有的老师不仅全身心地投入到工作，而且他们真的非常关心学生们的每一次进步并且乐于助人。而每周一次的全体教职工大会总会给我们提供机会来讨论班级与个人的问题和进步，并且可以让我们查阅整个学期里需要用来练习的课本和考试资料。当我们在学校讨论该如何进步成为一个十分优秀的小组以及用来要获得不间断的成功我们应该怎样做时，我们总是尽量营造一个舒适的学习与工作环境。
在澧县工作与生活的经历是我这一生中只能体验、不能言传的无价之宝。当地居民盛情地邀请我并接纳我，此外他们可以为你做任何事仅仅为了让你的生活方式更简单点。我也顺其自然地就和他们建立了友谊，并且我相信它会天长地久。当地居民接纳了我，我也就接纳了他们，就好像我们都是同一家庭的成员，我习惯于在城里散步，时不时还会停下来去问候别人，我和那些过路人分享过许多令人难忘的时刻，尽管我们不能用语言交流，但是肢体语言也带给我们许多欢声笑语。
最后，我想说的是，澧县职业中专学校的学生将永远深深地印在我的脑海里，一天二十四个小时他们都会一直驻扎在我的心上。因为他们使我成了一个与众不同的有经验的外教。如果没有如此不同的经历，我就不会有能力去不懈地致力于我自己的专业技能发展，并且完成对外英语教学语言学的文科硕士学位。
澧县职业中专学校，对于我来说，是湖南的第一职校。我坚信学校在不久的将来，将会成为学习专业的理想之地。因为在中国成功走向全球化发展的趋势中，职业学校培养了一批又一批跨国企业所需要的有实力的学生。
即使乡！ ■
作者姓名(中英文)：娜塔莉 Natalie
国 籍：英国
聘请单位：湖南澧县职业中专
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