Teaching As A Dream Teacher

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 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.

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

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.

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

Teaching as a profession is not easy; teachers must offer the highest level of care and education to all students in an encouraging and positive environment every single day. This can be done by creating a feeling of acceptance and sense of belonging and will enable each student to feel safe and secure, allowing them to move forward and increasing their learning skills.

In the words Ivan Welton Fitzwater, “the future of the world is in my classroom today”. I cannot think of a more accurate nor humbling statement when it comes to teaching. As an educator, it is completely inevitable not to reach at least one student in your classroom. However, I believe that many do not realize how great of an impact our teachers make for our children daily. What many do not realize is that the teacher’s attitude about learning has a much more significant impression on now the child feels about it than anything else. I am a strong believer in doing what it takes to show a child the value and sheer enjoyment of learning. As a child growing up in the public-school system, I have witnessed encouraging and inspiring experiences with teachers as well as unpleasant. Now that I am older, seeing these same behavioral issues and patterns have really opened my eyes as to how much the teacher’s approach sets the tone for the upcoming lesson.

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

Twenty-five years ago, as I sat at my desk at Stockard Middle School completely engulfed and overwhelmed with a sense of utter panic, I searched for an answer as to how to manage my students whose behavioral needs completely surpassed my knowledge and skill level as a teacher. It only took me two months to realize I was unprepared and unskilled, and if something did not change quickly, my career as a teacher would soon be over. Luckily, I was offered an opportunity to learn from a mentor, who during the next six months would provide me with additional learning sessions on how to support student behavior. This mentor taught me the “what, why, and how” of student behavior and how my skill level as a teacher correlated with the progress of my students. I finally realized how much their achievement was impacted by my ability to support their learning. My mentor’s training would allow me to effectively teach students with an emotional disturbance and facilitate their transition back to the mainstream classroom. For the next seven years, it was truly amazing to see the influence I had as a teacher, but also it made me realize the incredible responsibility I had as a teacher to “get it right”. Without the proper training, I would have been a part of the growing number of teachers who are leaving the classroom because of their lack of support and their feelings of being unprepared.

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

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).

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