Teacher Reflection Paper

A good teacher can teach well, but a great teacher sees his student’s success as his own. A great teacher does not mean he can teach many subjects, it means he cares about his students and wants them to succeed in life. In my opinion, a great teacher should be unprejudiced, dedicated and proficient.

I believe good teachers are enthusiastic and capable of conveying their enthusiasm to students; constantly look for ways of improving their teaching and trying to keep abreast of developments in their subjects; and are sufficiently mindful and self-aware to be able to laugh at themselves.

What is a good teacher? A good teacher is a immeasurably valuable factor in someone’s education. Of course there are many different types of teacher in life, but in this case I am referring to a classroom teacher. First and foremost a teacher must be there because they want to teach, not just

In today’s society it is nearly impossible to survive without an education. It is important that we have the right kind of teachers to accomplish certain goals. A good teacher is one who listens to their students and tries to answer any questions they might have about anything. I think that a good teacher should also be able to listen to others opinions and not argue with them but try to understand their point of view on the subject.

What makes a good teacher? While many people may have certain credentials and can make list out of these. The teacher must have a strong connection with his students, energetic enthusiastic, the list can go on. Hal Urban has done this by writing the book, The Classroom: 20 things Good Teachers Do. As future educators it is important for us to reflect, and remember our roots of where we came from and the different techniques both positive and negative that our teachers used in the classroom. Not only does this help us grow as educators, but it helps us learn the importance of the kind of environment we want to create in the classroom.

What defines a great teacher? A great teacher is someone that can come in everyday and put a smile of their face and try to make a difference in their students lives. A great teacher is a teacher is a person that care about their students and want the best for them no matter. A great teacher is a person who tries to push their students to their top academic performance and inspire their students to follow their dreams and to achieve them. This teacher for me, that pushes everyday in the classroom and who inspires me to be a teacher is Mr. Jason Bagwell.

A teacher is one who teaches or instructs, according to the Webster dictionary, but a good teacher has less than technical definition. They ask their students questions, instead of giving answers, to further the student’s thinking and make it more clear and more refined. Good teachers do not lecture and spew knowledge and facts onto their listeners, rather they engage their students to think critically and to think for themselves.

Depending on where we stand, the view of our environment and the effect of other individuals can shape the way we identify the world. Often we are afraid that seeing different perspectives then could lead to the loss of our very own, but the real value of another standpoint lies within seeing more of a situation and therefore being able to make a better evaluation for ourselves. By valuing new perspectives, we are initially introducing new elements of life to improve our way of thinking thus providing us with various of aspects that can help us grow in school, work and personal lives.

Yet, direct method and communicative approach do not teach grammar systematically. In contrast, both methods want the learners to use the language rather than analyze the language. It is stressed that the learners should learn the language, not about the language. Still, in direct method grammar is still being taught inductively but in communicative approach, the element of grammar is overlooked. It is believed that students can have limited linguistic knowledge and still be successful

become successful. A good teacher plans with intention with all these things in mind to communicate the content of lesson to the psyche of the learner. A good educator is transforms themselves and those they serve to reach their loftiest goals.

“What makes a good teacher?” is not a question that I was ever asked in all my years of studying, although I believe I have always known the answer. We all have had those teachers, the ones we can still remember by name decades later,

At the beginning of the Kindergarten class the class did their normal routine of calendar time. The teacher tells them to go to the carpet for calendar time and that gets them on task. They count the number of days they have been in school out-loud. They also count the days with straws and put them in a ones, tens, or hundreds pocket. The students also keep record of the number of days they have been in school with change. They count out change to the number of days they have been in school. They say how much each coin is worth and who is on it. Lastly, they add a gumball to their jar of gumballs and say how many they have in total. This is a normal everyday morning routine that involves math. TMPs 3 and 6 are used for this routine and SMPs 4, 6, and 8 are used during this time. This activity takes around thirty minutes everyday. I think doing this everyday has really benefited the students. A student found a dime outside and he brought it to me. He knew it was a dime, how much it was worth, and even the president that is on the dime SMP 6.

Teaching is a difficult occupation. Teachers play an important part in training children, teenagers… So, a good teacher must have some special qualities. They are: knowledge, creation, confidence, empathy, sense of humor and passion.

Walking into the first two weeks of the EDU program I desired to experience what it would be like to be a future educator and have a grasp of how to help the molding of our youth and giving them the possibility to become future leaders. Doctor dresser was able to bring in a Concordia alumni who had just begun to experience his professional education, career and is teaching multiple different grade levels as a young teacher. When he first walked into the classroom my first impressions were that unfortunately he looked very inexperienced and unsure of what was to be expected of the lecture I thought to myself in the position of a younger student in his classroom this is a person I would not take seriously. He then proceeded to communicate

This reflection paper addresses as a student and counseling professional how I feel as though I have been readily prepared to teach in higher education and areas, concepts, strategies, and thoughts on how I have evolved through this course. This course has made me think more into how the most powerful, durable, and effective agents of educational change are not the policy makers, the curriculum developers or even the education authorities themselves; they are the teachers. It further contends that the quality of the educational changes that teachers have the skills and opportunities to effect will only be as reliable and proficient as the teachers’ individual capacities for reflective practice and the development of self-knowledge (Stepien, 1999). These aspects of teacher development have, historically, been largely overlooked in the preparation and promotion of effective teachers. The emphasis has been more explicitly focused on the development and demonstration of teachers’ understanding of content knowledge and the associated pedagogies and in their capacities to understand their students as individual constructors of knowledge in diverse social contexts (Bosworth, 1999).