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Being an english teacher is …

English is the kingdom of Sleeping Beauty. You must awaken Her in yourself and the whole kingdom will come to life and be yours.

It’s nearly thirty years as I’ve stepped on this challenging yet noble path of teaching English at a secondary school – and I still enjoy it!

Nothing else in the world can be so rewarding and inspiring twenty pairs of inquisitive eyes waiting for the miracle to be performed.

So, what is a teacher? Why is s/he so special in the life of every child? On whose blessing am I given this precious right to touch the hearts and souls of the younger pupils and let them touch and play the strings of my inner world? Has this gift been passed down to me genetically from my parents, both teachers (my Mum’s an Excellent Teacher and my Dad’s a Merited Teacher of Ukraine)? So, what am I ?

I am a MAGICIAN – my students make me believe and feel it. I can do anything and everything in the world on my students’ wish.

During the First bell Ceremony, on September 1, I can’ but keep looking at the place where the first graders are standing. I watch their worried eyes and a warm feeling of anticipation overwhelms me – I already love and adore them, for the next 12 years we will live a happy, full of unforgettable moments life together.

I am an ACTRESS and a SPECTATOR - put on the “magic” hat of Mary Poppins which takes us around the world in an eye-wink. We dramatised the best world’s tales, made masks and puppets ourselves, taught them to talk and perform.

I am a DOCTOR and a PATIENT- “What’s that? A tear in the eyes?” – my healing hand strokes a head or a hurt knee…

And my headache instantly relieves at the sight of happy smiles, bright sunny eyes or a sudden unexpected quick kiss on my cheek…

I am a WRITER and a READER – I write stories and plays, poems and songs for my students to study with enjoyment. How many tales I’ve read with my students and for my students!

Being an English teacher means being an INSPIRER.

As all my students run their own journals or diaries, I’m an avid reader of their creations: poems and fairy tales, fantasies and even novels. I’m trusted to read their top secrets and I’m urged to answer very personal questions or to give a piece of wise advice…

Being an English teacher of teenagers is fantastic!

It means being a TRAVELLER and a DISCOVERER: we save the Earth from eco - catastrophe or organise a search party to find Loch-Ness Monster in the deepest lakes of Scotland and elsewhere. We fly to far-off planets and galaxies to contact other civilisations, meet weird creatures and star-kids, and build castles in the air. We dream of a Magic School for every pupil to be happy in with lessons of Telepathy, Fantasy and Space Travels.

Together with my students I celebrated all the main holidays of the English-speaking countries observing their customs and traditions, making costumes, singing traditional songs and playing games.

Being and English teacher is being a SCIENTIST and an INVENTOR, a RESEARCHER and an EXPLORER, a … (an unfinished list of occupations), for only English has no boundaries in expanding prospects for everyone.

And at last there comes the final year with its special atmosphere of friendship and partnership.

Being an English teacher with the seniors has a unique aroma of confidence. It means being a FRIEND and a COUNTERPART, and a PARTNER. Why, they are grown-ups, just like yourself.

We debate and role-play life situations, make projects and presentations – this is the life of a mini – society with its obstacles, challenges and problems. We seek the solutions in hot discussions. And we find them!

This elevates us to the skies in triumph and teaches life lessons.

Being and English TEACHER is being a STUDENT too: lots of confident compositions make me sit up late at night plunging into the ocean of thoughts, ideas and revelations. I learn from my students a new truth, they make me see the things I previously haven’t noticed or paid no attention to. They made me a bookworm: I look through piles of books and magazines while preparing for the classes.

Being an English teacher means being a very RICH PERSON: for the main treasure of the teacher is his/her students, devoted friends who live practically in every corner of the world; every my student has a little piece of my heart, though my heart hasn’t diminished, it has become even bigger filled with my students’ love. The wonderful success stories of my former pupils about their accomplishments have become my success too: I’m privy to almost all professions of the world due to my pupils. Owing to them I penetrate deeply into the knowledge of the universe.

I feel proud of them.

Thank you, my dear students, that you are like that!

Thank you, my dear students, you have made me the one I am!

Thank you, my dear students, sometimes you make me feel the happiest person in the world!