Personal Statement Do I still want to be a '' Teacher '' ?

   To tell the truth: No !

Actually I want to tell you my decision. Hopefully you will understand me:)
For me in this world, the most importan tthing is ''RESPECT''. This is the first rule, you should be respectful of older people. However, in my opinion, to respect  everyone shoul not be the hardest thing but we see it everywhere. To illustrate, in our life; at schools for each level;  primary, highschool, univesity.. students' personality has differences .The deep of this issue actually comes from their family education and backgraund. I witness so many event when I was at the primary school and high school . when my friends argue with our teacher unjustly I always take to task them seriously because from my childhood I do emphaty.Thus, when my friends make fun of teacher or argue with any of them, I was always thinking like If this teacher was my mother or father.. I even do not want to think about this situation but this is in our life. Do you remember the event you have been in the classroom ? Of course, you remember. This is the most important reason why I do not want to be a teacher. I do not think that I can be calm down if I face to face some event like I have saw. As I am a nervous and moody person, I think this work is not appropriate for me.

Now, then let me tell you about why I chose this department '' English as a Language Teacher ''.
First of all before the exam which we apply for the University. I was in English department class in the High School. Okay, you will ask why I chose this department.For a little bit background for this is that as I mentiont above that I hated history then my biology was not good and I was hearing about how phsics is hard to learn I was afraid of studying the mathematical part and as I do not have any tendency to learn history I did not  chose the verbal class and from my teenages I tend to speak English to communicate with my foreign friends from dance school they were from America and also I was not afraid of making grammar mistakes during my speaking. When I was at 9th class, I was the only person who loves English and at the end of the year I decided  to study what I like. From 10th to the end of 12 I thought that I am going to study on translation and interpretation . after the high school we applied for  the University exam and my score was not enough to study translation and interpretation then I did not know I am going to do but I was determined that I am not going to prepared for the exam again and my father insisted me to study this department and he told me the prestige of Middle East Technical University. Then I decided to come here to do my best.


On the other hand, I am a good adopter what I mean is I can teach very well with some clues and certain ways to remember the knowledge.However again I say no one can predict my mood.It is not known when I am gonna be nervous  and I can laugh when I argue with someone. Thus being a teacher might be little risky for me . Who loves a moody teacher ?


The other part that why I do not want to be a teacher is that working under the government schools need to give an  exam again and there I do not want to make my knowlegde stable or I do not want to loose my knowledge. Here '' METU '' is not an easy University to graduate when we compare with other Universities. The highest position in the government schools is again being a teacher or the director of the school.


Last part of my story continious .. As an advantage of my bilingual mother tongues, I want to use them in my life. After my birth my mother taught me Romanian, she spoke with me untill 5 just Romanian after that my father starts to talk to me Turkish.English is also in my life and it will go on and also I satrted to learn İtalian and I go to Italy every summer since 2 years and I have to try to talk Italian there  because really almost no one speaks English. Actually it is not hard to learn it as Romanian  and Italian languages are sister languages. In my first year on departmant I started to take German course and this is the fourth semester that I take it and also I am succesfull on it . For these reasons I want to be in communication with people to use them and I think this is an advantage for me to working as ambasadors . I mentiond above that I give importance to prestige.

But besides these, I know, after the graduation, English Language as a Teacher will be one of my bracelet that I can use whenever I want. Hopefully you understand me :)

About me :)

Hello everyone! :) My full name is Mihaela Alev Varal. I was born on 02.11.1993 in Romania so as my mother is from Romania, I have dual citizenship and this makes me feel very lucky because I do not have to apply for any visa to travel around Europe. I am currently at Middle East Technical University and studying English Language Teaching because my tendency is on languages and as English is a global language I am proud of learning it . What I like about my studies is not only translating English to Turkish but also Turkish to English. What I dislike about my studies is Linguistics. I was not good at studying linguistis thus thats why I do not like it . As I am an ambitious person, failure makes me feel bad. My home is in Mersin and I have lived here for 15 years. I live there with my nuclear family '' my mother, father and lovely little brother '' . My favorite activities include dancing, playing backgammon, watching documentaries, science fiction and psychological movies, operations, going to the shooting range and riding a horse . I love to say '' bacım '' which means'' my sister'' whom I feel closely . My favorite meal involves sauteed with mushrooms na dmy favorite snack food is salads. The person who supports me me the most is my mother and in my life she helps me anytime for everything she is actually not only my mother but also my best friend whom I can tell everything without hesitating. The best time of the day for me is before I sleep because I listen relaxing musics and then I fall a sleep. My greatest inspiration is my experiences because when I think that what I overcome, I feel more mature day by day. My all time role model is Anna Maria who is my cousin because of her being so strong and resistant . I would like to be as strong as her because I know that I can overcome with each harsh situations .

 17 years old ''little'' brotler :)

When I was little I remember that I was beating my little brother when he was not listening to me. None of my family members have never beat him as he has a heart disease. Thus, I decidet to educate him. Maybe beating him was the wrongest thing but today he is thanksfull to me as being like this . He was not doing his homeworks and he was smartass because what he was prefering my family was taking or doing things what he wants immediately. After some time, he started his disease as make use of so I started to oppose him and give dirrection his personality. My childhood was generally different from the other children because I had to act maturely due to some stuff. I always found school to be fun this is because I was excited to study my favorite lessons and spent time with my friends . The best teacher I ever had was İlknur Altınoğlu as she was not only a fun person but also an authoritarian so she was educating us very well as how it should be because the communication between students and teacher is the most important thing thats why I think in this way anf for her finally I can say that there was no one who does not like her . As an extra information , she was our English teacher. Tehe worst teacher I ever had was my history teacher ( I do not want to even give her name ) because she was just coming to the classroom and '' open your book and today's reading is on the .. page '' then we were reading after then she was asking question even standing up from her chair she was finishing the class without any communication with us and she was also morose. I still hate her because due to her I do not have and tendency on history. The best thing anyone has ever said to me is '' I proud of you and I know I am going to proud of you '' . The worst thing anyone has ever said to me is '' your ambition will kill you '' I felt like I am doing something wrong and I am a bad person as who distrubes people . What no one has ever told me is that your parfume smells badly. I am proud that I have never said '' If only ''. The greatest lesson I learned was geography and I learned it when I was at 11.class High School. In my twenties I hope to achieve that I will graduate with the highest grade I can . In my thirties I hope to achieve the career life that I am planning . In my forties I hope to achieve prestige that I deserve. The goal I have include is being an ambassador. I am worried about my brother's achievement . I am confident that I will reach the possition that I am dreaming. I feel uncertain that If I am going to stay in Turkey or not. I know for sure that my father will continue to say '' I am proud of my daughter '' . I believe that conscience is GOD inside us . I am happy when the people around me are happy at least when they have a possitive energy . It is important to presence respectability people around you. I am interested in latin dances and nigerian dances . What no one realizes about me is that people who do net meet me yet think that I am egotric but when they meet me they confess me how do they think about me befer we met . My destiny is like a movie;you can not even predict .

Do teachers actually make a difference to society?

Do teachers actually make a difference to society ?

Yes I think teachers make so many differences to society. They affect the environment where they are. Not only students but also students' families and their relatives are affected by teachers with their approaches, attitudes, manners etc. In other words, each teacher has their own philosophy of education and it determines how they affect the society. And if the teacher is really an effective and a good teacher, s/he can make lots of possitive differences on students and especially in low educated locals . Due to the teacher is the role model for all of students, they can make raise a number of creative and unique students for society. Teacher should know how to approach to students and also their psychological situation.  To illustrate, if students feel close to their teachers, they take the teachers as an idol day by day .