004+Feedback+from+Supervisors,+Mentors,+Peers



"It's been a great pleasure to work with you during "Steps to Success" course. The assessments, you'd given, were immediate, objective with some advice . The feedback was specific and highlighted the things to pay attention to and improve. They motivated me to further reflection on my teaching and encouraged to do the best. At the same time, you were always available on the phone, I appreciated it (Sure, I'm not the only one). That was great experience." Tetiana Kuz, teacher of English, Chernivtsi Gymnasia 7


 * "Being the teacher of English, I always try to do my best in teaching my students. I’ve successfully completed a series of training workshops for young teachers for professional qualification. Olena O. Molodek was our trainer. Firstly, I want to admit that she taught us the skills which were to be followed for our development and prepared us for the job because her expertise is profound and her views on teaching are modernized. Her imagination and the innovations she’s implementing are her most important traits. She did wonders during our training workshops, as her new ideas broke monotony and made us active and vivacious. **
 *  Secondly, Olena Oleksandrivna is a successful trainer because she is ingenious. We always saw her introducing changes and new ideas, experimenting new things and being bright." Diana Pilip, teacher of English, Chernivtsi Gymnasia 5 **
 * PS: This is my favourite poem called "Thank you, teacher" by Joanna Fuchs, which I would like to paraphrase into "Thank you, trainer" **
 * Thank you, trainer **
 * Thank you, skillful trainer **
 * For training me to be **
 * A stronger, smarter person, **
 * Academically. **
 * Thank you, favourite trainer **
 * For acting like a friend, **
 * And taking time to show me, **
 * Lessons hard to comprehend. **
 * Thank you for your caring **
 * And lots of other stuff, **
 * For all the things you gave me, **
 * <span style="background-color: #e8c6c6; color: #730a75; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I can’t thank you enough. **

<span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dear colleagues, <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> I’ve been teaching English for 4 years and only now I can say with a confidence that I’ve got a really good experience and knowledge of how to teach, how to write an appropriate lesson plan, what type of activity to choose and so many other tips that help me to keep my knowledge up-to date and to achieve success in my teaching career. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> However 4 years ago everything looked different to me. Being a newly-qualified teacher who had just graduated from the university I had an uncertain sensation of how to become a good teacher because I hadn’t enough of teaching experience. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> It was difficult for me to adapt to new conditions but I needed to get my foot in the door, take things in my stride and be ready to get knowledge of how to work with children, large classes and even revise the approaches and methods of teaching. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> At that moment I had the opportunity to join to Young Teacher’s School in our city. The mentor of it was (and actually is) Molodek O.O. It should be noted that being at the meeting for the first time I was a little scared, because I didn’t know anybody and had no idea what it was exactly .Just then, I realized that it was a great opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, to see how the experienced and highly-qualified teachers teach in different schools; to get new ideas, support and a piece of advice. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> I'm really proud to say that during those 3 years I’ve got not only some extra knowledge concerning teaching, but also a lot of acquaintances and even friends (and still keep in with most of them). Moreover, everything that I was taught at Young Teacher’s School workshops and seminars I was able to show during InSETT Courses. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> I’m very much obliged to Olena Oleksandrivna Molodek for the support and encouragement. She’s a really highly-qualified teacher, a very good specialist and teacher-trainer. Olena Oleksandrivna is a person who shares her buoyancy, experience and hopefulness with us. Every our workshop is absolutely alike the previous one. Each time she shows us new trends, methods, materials, activities or other interesting things and tips for a successful teaching of foreign language. Thanks’ to Olena Oleksandrivna’s example, each workshop turns to an interesting seminar where everybody can express her/his own ideas, thoughts and share the experience in a non-threatened atmosphere without fears of being criticized. In addition, due to our mentor my colleagues and I are the first who have created e-portfolios for our CPD. We also have Young Teacher’s School website, thus we don’t need to take notes during the workshops, and there we can find the material from the previous workshops and write feedbacks too. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Our mentor is the person who kindles the flame of inspiration in us, teaches us to be creative, love our profession, be tolerant, self-confident and continue our professional self-developing. She’s an open-hearted and ready for help, you may feel free to ask her any question at any time. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">To sum up, I’d like to express many thanks to Olena Oleksandrivna that gave me the opportunity to pass British Council courses "Steps to Success", those courses made a huge contribution to my teaching experience. I don’t regret anything it worth every minuteI’ve spend on it. It should be noted that I know very few competent teachers today, with professional skills which are highly appreciated not only by students but also by teachers. One of these people is Olena Oleksandrivna, she taught me not to be afraid of difficulties. Once she said: “Don’t give up at once, first try - bit by bit, step by step and you’ll succeed”. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Of course I still need to learn a lot, but time and desire will help me. I wish everyone not to be afraid of changes, be ready to acquire new knowledge, make a name for yourself and do your best for your career development because you have got a wonderful mentor to follow. <span style="background-color: #90afeb; color: #bf3409; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Best wishes, Natalia Beliaeva, teacher of EL (Lyceum №4)


 * <span style="background-color: #e8e244; color: #24872d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"An Inspirer. An Empower. An Engager. These three characteristics are just a short sample of the many you demonstrate with all of your students. I am lucky to have the best tutor in this world. Wherever I may go in my life, I will always remember that I had an excellent guide in the form of a tutor, You. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for making me do my best. Thank you for being genuine. Thank you for seeing me as a partner in learning and sharing. Thank you for being you. Thank you for being one of the few great teachers out there. May you inspire others to achieve the greatness you have,"Lesya Khrunyk, Young Teachers' School Participant **