is a good teacher? Obviously there is more than one way to be an effective teacher. This may depend on what is being taught, what the teacher is like already as a person and of course the students. As William Arthur Ward said “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires” (goodreads.com). This quote demonstrates that being a great teacher is about more than just telling students about the material. A good teacher is someone
From my years in elementary school, middle school, and now high school, I have had many different teachers who have an impact on my life and my educational growth. There's one teacher though, who went above and beyond any other teacher I have had and that's why she had such a great impact on my learning ability. When I was in elementary school, I never thought much of reading books. I always saw books as things I did not want to dive into and read. Instead my head was thinking about either football
to a professional standard. What is a good teacher? A good teacher is one that has a passion for teaching. A good teacher is one that is takes pleasure in seeing their students comprehend their lessons. Being able to connect with your students is an important part of being a teacher. If you can’t connect with your students, you cannot teach them properly. Another element to being a good teacher is making sure that no student feels left out. A good teacher will utilize every student to make sure that
Introduction Mathematics is an important part of everyday life and as teachers in the early years, we are responsible for teaching children the fundamentals of mathematics and helping develop children’s passion for learning mathematical concepts. Knaus (2013) states that “An effective teacher of mathematics will ask questions to provoke children’s thinking and introduce the language of mathematics to help children see the connections between the world and mathematical concepts (pg.3). As I progress
For this assignment I was unable to ask the teachers at my normal school setting questions due to them being on vacation all this week. That being said I asked one of my favorite teachers who works at the high school I go to. This teacher's name is Claire Hickman, she is the art teacher at Bayshore High School. One of my questions asked how many years she has been in an inclusive learning environment and her answer was 13 years! That’s just 5 years short of my life time so I am sure I can learn
We all have our opinoins of school, you either love it or you hate. Teachers are the ones who give us impression of school. Most of the time your opinion of school is due to your classroom inviroment. Your classroom enviroment depends on your class mates or your teacher, but in my opinion your teacher makes or break your how you feel about being a school. The way that a teacher operates her classroom can either be very enjoyble and make you wanna be there or make you miserable and make you dread
teaching. As an educator, acknowledging that many teachers have a different view of certain situations is vital. Although every teacher receives the required criteria to enter the profession, most experience different scenarios throughout life and their career that defines how they respond to situations, and how they think. Teachers are the ones who could make significant changes in the lives of the students positively or negatively, and some great teachers make substantial positive changes in the life
assessments and a survey that needed to me completed. These assessments included SAT 10, FFT (Teacher Survey) and MAP-R. This was a very demanding experience. The first thing that needed to be completed was the FFT Teacher Survey. This is important to all teachers on-cycle using the Framework for Teaching. The Survey is a vital component to a teachers overall effectiveness. If left incomplete, the teacher receives a score of zero for that portion. When I became the acting testing coordinator,
MY TEACHING JOURNEY As a teacher of English for 17 years, in this reflection paper I will consider my teaching journey in terms of professional development. Before I became a teacher professionally, I was considered as helper or teacher of English by some people around me. Since language learning was not considered as one of the essentials of formal education by the families at that time, they did not use to get professional help to support the language education of their children. Instead, they
Teacher Education Program Reflection Essay I have learned many things in my Methods semester, either through the classes themselves, or through my observation hours. I learned that handling different learners isn’t like learning about them in a classroom, and that technology is one of the most important aspects of student life. I learned what my goals are, and what my strengths and weaknesses are as well. During my methods courses, I learned that one of the most important jobs a teacher can do