Fatih Kuzu

EDS 220.07
October 20, 2016
MY CAREER AUTOBIOGHRAPHY

My name is Fatih Kuzu. I was born in Istanbul in 1996. I am from Sinop.

I have only one brother. He was born in Istanbul in 1999. I spent my
childhood years in Istanbul. My parents did not send me to a kindergarten. I
started primary school in Istanbul at the age of seven. At the age of ten, I
moved to our hometown Sinop with my parents. I lived and studied in my
hometown until I started to study at Middle East Technical University in
Ankara. I am studying in the department of Foreign Language Education at
METU at present. As for my hobbies, I like playing football and table tennis,
chess, and computer games. I also like drawing city plans. Moreover, I am
quite interested in foreign languages, history, geography and politics. So I
also like reading books and watching documentaries. Actually, the reason
why I decided to pursue teaching as an area of study is a little bit
complicated. When I was at primary school, I used to dream of becoming a
policeman or soldier like many boys. When I was at secondary school, I
decided to become a historian because I was really good at history. However,
at the last grade of secondary school, I decided to become an English
teacher because my English teacher at that time quite influenced my career
decision. He was a really great and skillful teacher. He used to say to me that
I had had a great ability towards foreign languages especially English. In the
high school, I also had English teachers who motivated me to become a

teacher of English. Moreover, the importance of knowing English also

motivated me become a teacher of English because knowing English is
crucial to anyone who wants to follow latest developments in terms of
politics, science, and technology etc. throughout the world. So I have chosen
this career. As for my beliefs about human nature and development, they are
important factors that impact student learning and motivation. Although we
still do not know many things about human nature. However, this is certain
that human nature and development are shaped by both genes and
environment and they also have an important influence on human mind
because they are related to each other. Therefore, teachers must learn about
human nature and development in order to conduct an effective education
process. As for the other important factors that impact student learning and
motivation, I think that students mental level, physical and psychological
conditions are other important factors. To clarify, if some students have
mental, physical and psychological problems, then their learning and
motivation will be affected badly. Furthermore, teachers personality is also
an important factor in learning process because students success or failure
is directly linked to teacher attitude towards the students. To clarify, if a
teacher is friendly, caring and helpful towards the students, then they will
probably love their teacher and can easily focus on their studies. As for the
teaching methods, type of assignments and assessment methods, I would
prefer to use learner-centered methods because they let both learners and
instructors cooperate actively during teaching process. They also give more

opportunities to them to learn and discover by themselves. I would also use

some strategies such as discussion method and brainstorming in order to
raise learners participation into class such as discussion method. I would
give them research assignments so as to support their learning process.
Moreover, I would use pop-quizzes and written reflections in order to check
what they have learned during the teaching process. As for the next topic, I
think that disabled students would be the most difficult for me to teach.
Actually, disabled students are not naughty as others and friendlier but I do
not know anything about special teaching methods, strategies and
assessments for disabled students because we are mainly trained to teach
normal students at the faculty of education. Unless I am also trained to teach
for them, I will probably have difficult times while I teach them. Finally, I
would like to be remembered as a successful, skillful and caring teacher by
my students.