Australasian Training Academy
V03/0607/MA
24
Teaching in a new and different environment also offers us the
opportunity to try out new professional ideas and to revitalize teaching
styles. If a new professional challenge is what is being sought, completely
changing one's personal and professional environment is certainly one
way of achieving this. Immersion in a new culture and often in a new
language allows us the chance to experiment with a new curriculum, or
simply to refine and hone professional skills that may be suffering from a
slight touch of atrophy in surroundings that may have ceased to offer
much in the way of pedagogical stimulation.
In addition to the personal and professional stimulation that teaching
abroad can bring in its wake, there is also a host of other reasons that
have motivated teachers to spend some time away from their home
bases. Opportunities for new friendships, new cultural experiences, and
new gastronomic pleasures rank high among these, and all of them are
available for the teacher who is willing to take the plunge. How valid
these reasons are, and how much the hopes that they represent are
fulfilled, is dependent on the individual's true motivation for wanting to
teach overseas.
One reason why people teach overseas is often overlooked, however,
because it does not pertain directly to the new environment, and this has
to do with the change within people. Any new experience brings out
some degree of change in the people involved, and teaching abroad is
not an exception. At the very least, there is a broadening in the way that
a person looks at his or her profession and at its possibilities. This in turn can
lead to the recognition of new strengths and new avenues for exploration.
When talking to teachers who have taught overseas, most, if not all of
them, found that their motivation to do so did lead them to an
experience that did enrich, stimulate and rejuvenate; but, at the same
time, also had the potential to frustrate and infuriate. Why you 35 should
teach overseas is not a question that should be asked or answered lightly.
It is one that many people in the past have faced. Those who come to a
positive realization about their own personal motivation for going overseas
nearly always enjoy the challenge that doing so poses, and the benefits
that it offers.
Summary :
Australasian Training Academy V03/0607/MA 24 Teaching in a new and different environment also offers us the opportunity to try out new professional ideas and to revitalize teaching styles. Immersion in a new culture and often in a new language allows us the chance to experiment with a new curriculum, or simply to refine and hone professional skills that may be suffering from a slight touch of atrophy in surroundings that may have ceased to offer much in the way of pedagogical stimulation.
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