My Teaching Philosophy

Why do I prefer individual or small group teaching to big class teaching? I call my private students clients. As a teacher my job is to serve my client. I want to know precisely what they need and what are the most beneficial ways that help them to learn. Because I want to serve my clients like this it is easiest to put into practice with one, two or maybe three students at the same time. I want to give my full attention to every student and it is not possible in big group.

My teaching philosophy is that my most important job is to motivate my students. I give them tools and I help them but they have to do the work themselves. I can't remove the knowledge to their head. I always tell my students that mistakes are not dangerous. I encourage them to use the language and if they are able to communicate even if everything is not completely correct then the language has done its work and studying was worth it because languages exist so that communication can happen.

All of my current students have studied in big class. One of the reasons why they wanted to change into individual teaching is that they want to develop faster than it is possible in big class. When you have a group of people they never proceed in the same speed. Some of them are faster and some of them are slower. Teaching usually takes place in the intermediate speed. Students who are faster get bored and students who are slower can’t follow.

People also learn in different ways. When I teach individuals instead of group my client is my boss. I have to find the technics that help this one client. Same technics may not help someone else. I want to know all my clients and their way of learning. That’s how I am able to serve them the best possible way and get the result they want to achieve.