MY TEFL STUDENT IS NOW MY COLLEAGUE

I recently decided to take an educational workshop on Mental Health in Schools offered by our school board. While it was not directly related to Adult TEFL, I felt it would enhance my learning and better equip me to understand adults with similar problems.

There was quite a mix of participants: TAs, and both elementary and high school TEFL teachers. At the second session, a young woman asked if the seat was taken at the table where I was sitting by myself, and I invited her to join me. She looked familiar, and I inquired as to whether we had taken a workshop together before, or if she had attended one of the P.D. Days at TEFL Ottawa. I was naturally assuming she was a teacher. She then said she knew who I was by my voice. I was her teacher over 15 years ago! While I cannot remember all of the names of the students I have taught over the years, I’ve never forgotten a face.

She was now working as a Teacher’s Aide in an elementary school, a position she has held for 7 years. As it turned out, she was taking a course on a topic that she had far more TEFL experience with on a daily basis than I did; in all likelihood, our roles as TEFL teacher and TEFL student could have been reversed. Needless to say, I was happy and proud to see a former student doing so well and settled into her new life in Canada.

Have you ever come across a former student in a new context?   I’d love to hear about it.

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