Experience Summary
This thought of Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer and philosopher has always reminded me of the tremendous love I have of teaching or tutoring: "Ideal teachers [tutors] are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." Instead of admiring good thought only, I usually feel concerned doing something about it. Unfortunately, in my home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the teaching/tutoring profession is not highly regarded, and so I did not go down that path professionally. My decision to go to law school to become a legal professional did not stop me from finding alternative methods of teaching or tutoring. While in high school, I was passionate about sharing the excitement of a good book to classmates; in addition, I was involved in many groups such as boy scouts, choruses, and alumni associations where I played a preponderant role similar to a teacher or tutor. Those that I trained from this experience brought me lots of satisfaction.
In addition to this past experience, I possess tremendous skills from which I believe to be very much effective in teaching or tutoring high level French language to English student speakers. I was born and grew up in the context of a home country where French serves as an official language. My high school diploma in literacy studies has prepared me to love languages in both writing and speaking. My former profession as a foreign lawyer has enabled me to gain a skillful understanding in many areas of French writing and public speech. I have learned extensive grammatical skills in French due to research papers written while in law school.
Such skills are advantageous in tutoring foreign language. I have been used them for two years since I have been tutoring French class students at Santa Rosa Junior as a part of my activities in addition to my classes I am taking there as a paralegal student. The feedback I am receiving from French class students is reassuring.
I believe that I have the tremendous assets to becoming an excellent French tutor for the academic success of English student speakers: First of all, I have a lot of the regard for the teaching or tutoring profession itself. Second of all, the skills earned due to my past education and career as a lawyer in Congo will greatly aid and contribute to be becoming a tutor of one of my native languages, French.