With the passions of teaching, it still didn’t make his path as a school instructor any easier, but he’s, still working hard, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Lo is a middle school instructor of Lieh-Yu Middle School in Kinmen, after he graduated from university, with his passions of dual-language instructions returned back to his hometown to teach, but, a student’s words, almost shattered his beliefs about teaching. He’d adjusted his methodology, and, worked hard, to teach based off of the students’ needs, and, discovered how teaching works with his students by his side.
Born & Raise in Kinmen, Knowing Firsthand the Hardships of Getting an Education
Lo is twenty-six years of age, his father is a serviceman, his mother a school instructor, both born and grew up in Kinmen, he’d gone through his schooling career in the locality of Kinmen, with the same paths to learning the children experienced locally. In his final year of high school, with the high entrance exam grades, he’d gotten into the University of Education’s English Department on a tuition-free track. He’d told, that the students who are on the tuition-free program can only rely on the entrance exam grades from after high school to enter into university, “handing in my answer sheet, was like, handing over my life”, he’d waved goodbye to his own hometown temporarily to start his studies in Taiwan.
After his college years, he’d applied for the substitute service term to the Philippines to teach as an English teacher, from his internship to his service term, taught the high schools, the elementary schools, then, returned back home, and was assigned to the Lieh-Yu Middle School as an English instructor. He taught his classes in English in their entirety, because he’d learned English step by step, with the school teachers, progressed slowly and steady to become, fluent. After he started teaching in middle school, he’d switched to a brand new identity, leading his students, to travel across the path he’d already traveled.
He’d Felt Defeated, as He’d Wanted to Give the BEST Resources to His Students
The school he teaches in is an island within the island, being an extreme distant school instructor, Lo often faced the issues of the students lacking motives in learning, not enough cultural capital, and, behavioral and mental state issues. During his first month of teaching, he’d tried using all-English instructor, and, as he’d asked a student a question in English, a student who had his head down on his desk told him off in Taiwan, “Stop talking to me in English!”, it’d, made him feel a huge defeat, for expecting to “give the students in the distant regions the best resources he could offer”.
a classroom session of the teacher, off of Youtube
yes, the link works!!!
Later, Lo adjusted his teaching methods, and gave the students the means to help them want to speak in English, and, he’d started building up rapport with his students too, and, he could always write a full page of replies back to his students’ assignment books; he’d made the home visits to the students, to get to know their families’ conditions, and when he’d encountered a high-risk dropout student, he’d told the students, “You skip my class, I will ride out on my scooter BACK into my classroom.”But the students lacked the motivations of learning English at home, and, there’s lacking in English stimuli away from the class, outside of the classrooms, the students only had chance encounters with the English billboard signs, which made it harder for them to improve in their skills. Besides, there’s a high turnover rate of teachers in the distant-region schools, no unification of methods in teaching, he’d told, that even if he tried his hardest to establish connection with his students, setting up the rules, the students may not want to follow his words one bit.
Exploring the Path of Teaching, He’d Always, Worked to Late in the Nights
Lo is currently a homeroom instructor for a seventh-grade class, also the advocate of reading and English education at his school. When the reporters of the paper interviewed him on the phones, it was already eight in the evening, and the interviewing reporter heard the bells rang from Lo’s end, he’d told, that there are, so many details of work in the distant-region schools, he’d had to plan the lessons, grade the exams, and sometimes, watch over his students, and he’d needed to work until late in the evenings, but he is more than willing, and able to, help the students to discover which way they would learn the best.
And so, this man has the wills, the desires, and the determinations, to educate, and, even though he had a rough start with his class, but, with the establishing of trust, and his working hard to make the students know, that he really, DOES, care for them, that, is how this instructor will be able to, make a difference in the lives of these students in the distant-region schools.