My personal reflection on reaching professional goals.

I think I have somehow reached well many of the professional goals presented in the questionnaire. There are some goals in which my development is not very confident, particularly the ones in which theory is onvolved – theory is an aspect in which I need to develop deeper knowledge.

I think my strongest areas in these professional goals are  to analyze and adapt teaching material and to  use methods and techniques that  meet the context and particular characteristics  of students or groups. I have enough English proficiency,  but I know this isn´t enough, so am always after technique and didactic that go along  with our workplace methodology and class context. 

Through this BA in ELT I have become more and more reflective in most areas. However, I think I need to have stronger  knowledge in theories   and   to develop  stronger critical thinking  towards the conclusions  I get from my reflections for that I can take better  decision and solutions about my professional work.

I think I have not   gained enough theoretical ground to strongly back up my decisions and to support well some solutions and issues in my work context. Looking at the questionnaire I can notice that theory has a lot of weight, and I feel weak about this aspect. I am looking forward to learn deeper about different learning and teaching theories and principles so I can apply them into my teaching and contrast them. Taking this BA  in ELT has also made me aware of  the importance of research. I have been keeping a journal of my teaching since I  started FOLC. I am enthusiastic    about learning all about research and its techniques to carry it out systematically, so I can improve my teaching and my development as a professional to become a good and useful member  to the  English language teaching   community and  to the educational  research field.