About

 My Personal Profile

 

Name:  Sally Lam

Nickname that “I know” from students:  Ms Lamlam

How long in teaching profession:  approx. a decade as an English teacher in sec. sch.

Attitudes in teaching:  Firm, friendly, fair & fun

 

Things I enjoy in teaching/as a teacher:

• warm, fun learning atmosphere in class
• conducting an effective lesson
• reading students’ journal entries (WITHOUT the need for detailed marking)
• using poems, songs and films in class for different integrated tasks
• supportive relationship among colleagues
• love and care from colleagues and students
• reading(/writing) letters from (/to) students
• playing ping-pong with students
• seeing the eyes of students sparkling when I teach
• seeing students’ minds being enlightened
• creating interesting, interactive, challenging tasks
• going hiking with colleagues and students…

Things I hate in teaching:

• students copying my marking codes when doing corrections
• students making mistakes in the supposed-to-be-correct sentences when doing corrections
• extremely high frequency of killing-you-slowly-detailed marking
• pseudo-constructive comments from pseudo-ELT-experts (like those you have in minds now:P) 
• bringing endless, heavy composition exercise books home for marking
• dealing with “politics”…

 

My CALL Profile

 

CALLing level:  beginner

 

Attitudes towards CALL: 

open-minded, eager to learn, eager to share, looking for fun, willing to try, reflective in use

 

 

Belief in CALL:

CALL can be an effective means to facilitate the teaching and learning process.

 

Goals in CALL: 

• Being an effective CALL teacher that enhances students’ autonomous learning
• letting students taste a new learning experience in CALL with fun

It was me in Turkey a decade ago.  Oh, time flies!