The professionalism and the effect on my career

Firstly, as being a teacher for a few years I personally believe that there are some common standards to be a professional English teacher such as rich knowledge, enthusiasm and professional attitude. Rich knowledge is a foundation to teach others because it is a necessity to design teaching plans and answer to various questions. Obviously it is far away from being a professional teacher if someone has only knowledge without enthusiasm and professional attitude. I thought these three elements are enough to be an excellent teacher. However, when I started to study the ELT methodology, I found much more details and requirements. It is significant to design a course in a CLT way. The CLT not only emphasizes to input English knowledge but also highlights how to output this global language. For instance, reading skills include skimming, scanning, reading in detail and inference skills etc. When students get all of these skills it will be much easier and useful for them to get all kinds of information by reading different forms of materials in real life. The skills of writing and speaking are very important also because these two subjects focus on output. They have higher requirements of controlling English. So teaching skills in the CLT way is good for students to study English by themselves even when they graduate.
Secondly, being a student, it might be a natural character to be interested in having fun in class. So if teachers could design courses in the CLT way students may have much fun while they are getting knowledge. For example I still remember how I learned English when I was in primary school. Drill was the most high frequency method which was chosen by our English teacher. It is not helpful to learn a language and then use it in real life if drill is the only teaching method. So according to the ELT methodology, many other channels could accomplish teaching purposes in an English class. As we know from the book activities could be divided into different categories. Some are more controlled or guided. On the other hand some activities are more communicated. Controlled and guided activities are focus on accuracy. Communicative activities are more designed to practice fluency. So different kinds of activities are full of English classes and it will be students’ favorite subject. When students are interested in a subject they will definitely study harder.