It was September 2018 when I arrived to Durham (UK) to study a top-up degree in Management (provided by The Open University).
I had been studying a Foundation Degree in Business Management for 3 years in Madrid and during the year 2018-2019, thanks to the agreement that academy had with universities in the United Kingdom, I started my top-up degree at New College Durham.
It was there I discovered that only when you have the necessary support from your teachers, you are capable of everything.
I started teaching Spanish in 2010 and I have been meeting all kinds of students. It was always clear to me that I had to adapt to their needs, just as all my teachers had adapted to mine. However, even the subject and the course may be the same, each student is unique and deserves a unique teaching methodology.
At New College Durham all the students in my course studied Management, we all went to the same classroom, at the same timetable. Everything was same for the entire group. But I was not just like the rest and I needed a curricular adaptation.
This experience helped me realise that each student is a world, that it is necessary to establish their own methodology and a personalised plan for each of them. It is not always enough to explain, correct or answer the questions. It is also necessary to motivate, make them believe are capable of achieving it, regardless of the difficulties that arise along the way.
Motivation is essential to achieve your goals.
Learning a language is a long journey, but in the end we all arrived.
