Hello from sunny Vancouver! (Yes, it’s actually sunny!!)
My name’s Adriana, I am from Mexico and a recently landed immigrant in Canada. I have worked in ELT (English Language Teaching) since 1984 in teacher training, coordination posts, materials design, and teaching. I have also co-authored several textbooks for the Mexican school market. I have an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and I am on my eighth MET course; I have taken ETEC 510, 511,532,565, 520, 530 and 500. However, I took a year off, so I am a bit rusty.
I am not vey tech savvy, but since having started MET, I have at least learned to give things a go, and I am no longer ‘scared’ by technology. I also do not have entrepreneurial experience, but I firmly believe we learn by trying things out, by making mistakes, and by embracing change. Technology is definitely something that has had an impact on every aspect of our life. In my case, I want to not only embrace these changes, but also exploit them to improve my work in ELT. I firmly believe online resources have a lot of potential that have yet to be discovered; in this course, I hope to discover some of these new possibilities.
I like to do Yoga, watch a good BBC TV series, read and cook; preferably with my husband, whom I’ve been with for nearly 30 years J
Me when dealing with technology!!
gillian 5:05 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Adriana,
I LOVE the image! I’m with you on course #8 as well. It looks as if we have taken all the same courses – odd that we haven’t run across one another before. I look forward to working with you – you seem to have a great attitude towards learning and life.
gillian
ps. Who DOESN’T love a good BBC series?
adi 7:28 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian,
We probably hadn’t run across each other because I took a year off.
I also look forward to working with you.
Adriana
mariefrancehetu 5:20 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana,
Love your sense of humour! What an interesting background you seem to have . . .
Glad to have another language teacher on board – I look forward to working and sharing with you over the term.
Marie-France
dubiend 1:10 pm on May 10, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana,
It must be great to have such diverse work experiences. I’ve taught ESL and FSL and loved it! Of all the topics a person can teach, language teaching seems the one to get teachers and students to bond the most, what with everybody talking about themselves so much.
I hope your transition to living in Canada has gone smoothly.
Take care!
sheza 11:11 am on May 12, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Adriana!
Wow you are an all-star by the sounds of it! I only hope that one day my CV will sound as impressive 🙂
I am also extremely interested in ELT – I started my career teaching at a bilingual school in Berlin, Germany where students conducted 70% of their school day in English and only 30% in German. I then taught in the foreign languages department at a private school in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching English to over 250 students from Grades 5-9. It has been an exciting journey thus far, and I found that the abundance of online resources were extremely helpful when I was first learning how to wrap my head around teaching so many different ESL levels at once!
Looking forward to working with you on this course,
Sheza