our story and our first big teaching takeaways
Show Notes
We’re very excited (and even a little audibly nervous at first!) to kick off our initial podcast episode. We share the story of how we started out as teachers, evolved into trainers, and got to where we are now. We discuss what we thought teaching would be like going in… and how we quickly realized it was actually much different. And we share the major “aha!” moments we each experienced early on in our careers.
In this Episode…
Our backgrounds- graduating from college “unemployable”
Why we decided to start teaching
Our initial training (or lack thereof!)
How Lauren started teaching in Romania
How Shannon started teaching in Hungary
The coincidence(s) surrounding how we met
What inspired us to create TEFL Horizons
Our teaching expectations vs. reality
The things we found most surprising when we first started teaching
The biggest lessons we learned about how to be effective teachers
“You can’t anticipate everything that’s going to come up in a lesson...and you shouldn’t be able to! That’s real language. And at the end of the day there are real humans sitting in front of you, and their needs are individual (...) and I love that so much about teaching... it’s teaching to the individual.”