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I've learned that teaching english as a foreign language isn't all that much different from teaching other kinds of things, so long as you break down the course into manageable chunks and lessons into segments that flow well together to help get the material across. This is encouraging because I can better envision myself now as a teacher of english than I could at the beginning. In particular, the ESA structure of the lesson plans and the various tasks forcing me to plan lessons as if I would teach them helped me to better visualize myself teaching these classes, and to see that what I've learned in other venues about teaching should help me out to be successful. To put this into action, I plan on keeping the lesson plan template and using/adopting it based on my own circumstances. I feel it's given me a good starting point from which to launch into the kind of lesson planning and teaching style that will help me to succeed.
