Teaching As A Dream Teacher

TEACH LIKE YOUR HAIR’S ON FIRE: ANECDOTAL WISDOM OF AN EXPERIENCED EDUCATOR Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire by Rafe Esquith is a book, where one finds pieces of wisdom of an experienced educator on how to become a better teacher, parent and person and also a student (prologue). By sharing such wisdom extracted over the years and inviting teachers to a difficult self-training in the shape of “true sacrifice, mistakes and enormous amount of effort,” (prologue) instead of providing them with “simple solutions to complex problems” (prologue), the author intends to map out the terrains of possible problems and suggests strategies for dealing with them. As the book shares such wisdom in anecdotal form, it is easy to apprehend what the author makes of a particular experience, therefore user-friendly as a guide not only for many teachers in need, but also parents.

Teaching is an extremely important profession as we are responsible for training up the future generations of our community, country and in effect, the world. In order to be a successful and effective teacher there are some basic skills and competencies that one must possess. The experiences that students have inside (and outside) our classrooms, schools and various other institutes will shape and mould their approach to our subjects and to life in general. Therefore, it requires a certain level of skill and training to be deemed professionally fit to enter into this career path and even then, continuous

A teacher is confident in their skills of, classroom management, preparing and presenting lessons, grading papers and the million other tasks. However, a teacher turned student, not so much. Now, the teacher must practice what they teach. Not necessarily the easiest thing to do. However, this teacher turned student has a plan.

His book ‘What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World’, is a phenomenal and a thrilling world which highlights the teacher-student relationship.

Teaching is one of the most rewarding and satisfying career; yet, quite demanding and stressful at the same time. There has been a widespread concern on work related stress among teachers in different educational settings. Past studies have explored various factors regarding teacher stress including: causes of stress, prevalence rates, effects of stress and coping strategies (Benmansour, 1998). According to research, today’s teaching environment is characterized by serious responsibilities and workloads. As a result, teachers report relatively high cases of stress and some researchers have linked high teacher attrition rates in some areas to work-related stress (Alhija, 2015).

In an educational context, teachers and other staff who interact with the children and young people are more likely to be effective in their roles if they are self-aware and demonstrate good communication skills. A teacher’s plan should support young children’s social and emotional development, as this is linked to academic success. Teaching teams use strategies to work with children to promote the development of self-concept, self-worth, self-control, cooperation with peers and social relationships. They also help with the development of an understanding of families and communities (Geldard & Geldard, 2012). Teachers and other staff must create a good environment for the children (Dowling 2011, p43). I believe that teachers must genuinely love their career in order to be enthusiastic and provide a happy environment. In my opinion teachers play a role of second mothers to the students as children spend most of their time at school.

To be an effective teacher requires perseverance , which is something that is extremely important to the profession as a whole. Teaching at times can be very stressful and frustrating and like any job it can be very easy to give up and quit when times get tough or seem to be spiraling out of control. Children are very sensitive with their feelings and emotions and sometimes the blame is put on you the teacher by the student even though it may not be your fault in whatever happened. Parents can be very hard to get along with as well and it requires a lot of composure in explaining issues that may not be popular with the parent or child. Perseverance is very important to a teacher’s well-being as far as staying on task and coming up with new concepts that can better benefit the students as well as the teacher.

Along with planning lessons teachers also have to learn the school’s curriculum, policies and procedures. At this time, it becomes a reality that teachers are responsible for their students’ well-being and education. The reality of this responsibility may become

Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve

The first area of discussion in this section of the paper is the development of my strengths. After analyzing all of the results of the surveys completed for this course, it is apparent that I am strong in the areas of concern for the workers and learning from others. In order to develop these strengths, I will apply a two step procedure. First, I will use a more formal approach when determining the needs of my future teachers. Until recently, I have only performed cursory evaluations regarding the needs of the teachers in my school. This is an event that I have undertaken as a department chair. As an educational administrator, I will apply a more formal method of evaluation to verify the actual perceived needs of the teachers. Later in this section of the paper, I offer a plan that can be instituted in a school with similar issues as mine. Second, since my personality tends to focus my learning from others, I

Before you act on your emotions call me to your room. Eventually, all teachers confront periods of frustration at one point in their career. Expressing frustration is necessary to reflect and make adjustments in the educational setting.” However, legions of teachers hired at the same time as me failed to

The importance of teacher’s wellbeing and their impact in the classroom, shaping and molding of the young minds that parents send with confidence to school every day of the week. (NSW Department of Education and Communities, 2015) The stress levels in the teaching profession are amongst the highest of any occupation across many countries. (Stoeber J & Renner D, 2008) The pressure associated with high student expectations and their demands, knowing their content of work to engage a classroom audience, their high workload levels, vulnerability due to responsibility, involvement in over 1000 interactive communications per day with students and their continuous deadlines for paperwork and admin duties, all

Being a teacher is being a tool to create progress on each individual. The teacher works on a purpose as a designer; imposing knowledge upon his or her students in some creative manner and as an agent for change. From this purpose, progress will be bestowed in the future or through times. It is my heartfelt desire to choose this field. For almost 3 years of being an aspirant on this field, I have experienced quite a lot of challenges that leads me to learn better especially from our field studies: On becoming a teacher—where I have created a lot of reflections about teacher as a person, teacher in the classroom, teacher and the community, global teacher, and the teacher as a professional. Moreover, I have also figured out everything especially on facilitating learning from the

Before anyone becomes a teacher, they are a student, which can give a sort of dichotomous understanding of the teacher-student dynamic. The teacher is powerful and authoritative, one who both has and provides vast degrees of knowledge, at times oppressive but always in control. Standing in stark contrast are the students, unsure of themselves and wanting to learn, shaping their relationship to the classroom around the all-encompassing authority of the teacher. Actually stepping out of that dynamic, transcending that barrier and filling the teacher’s shoes, helps one to realize that though being the teacher is as empowering as it is confusing, it’s extraordinarily vulnerable and drives one to constant self-analysis and

In this essay, I will be looking at the research on the stress involved in being a schoolteacher. Teaching in schools is now widely recognised as being one of the ‘high stress’ occupations, and we need to understand the causes of stress for teachers and how it can be reduced (Dollard et al., 2003; Kyriacou, 2000).