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Who is an effective Teacher
Session By
Dr. Nicholas CorreaDirector, New Horizon Scholars
School
While planning the curriculum or lessons a teacher must realize or ask or seek answers of the following questions.
Who is a teacher?
What is education?
What is teaching?
What is learning?
What is evaluation?
Is the answer to the above cited questions curriculum?
Let us know the opinion and views of some great learned people.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Horace Man
"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three."
–Confucius
A very wise old teacher once said:
"I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh."
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.
-- Gilbert Highet
"If a seed of a lettuce does not grow, we cannot blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly."
Buddhist proverb
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
-- Frank Outlaw
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Carol Buchner
"In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get."
--William Feather
"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another."
-- Marva Collins
"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.“
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- Goethe
The purpose of Successful Education is to ignite creativity of students, helping them to use their creativity in useful ways and taking pride in their work. Our encouragement creates optimism or a positive attitude and inspires them to be successful individuals.
Every optimistic person is successful in his own way and they have successful intelligence a term recently created by cognitive psychologist Richard Sternberg as the key concept in his Theory of Successful Intelligence.
Successful Intelligence has three components:
1.Practical Intelligence- the ability to solve simple, every day routine 2. Analytical Intelligence- the ability to find solutions to complex analytical problems 3.Creative Intelligence- the ability to develop non-routine solutions
What is a curriculum? What is a program?A set of materials.A sequence of courses/projects.A set of performance objectives.A course of study.That which is taught in school.Content.Everything that goes on within the school
including co-curricular activities, guidance, and interpersonal relationships.
Everything that is planned by school personnel.A series of experiences undergone by learners in
school.That which an individual learner experiences as a
result of schooling of participation.
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS…Know the contentUnderstand the development of the studentValue the diversity of the students within the classPlan strategic lessons using research-based practicesUse multiple assessments to evaluate progress
Create a suitable learning environmentAdapt and modify instruction Use effective communicationCollaborate with all members of the learning communityEngage in sustained professional growth experiences
Vision of teaching
using only ’3′ straight Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line.
Solution
GOOD PLANNING
Keeps the teacher and students on trackAchieves the objectivesHelps teachers to avoid “unpleasant” surprisesProvides the roadmap and visuals in a logical sequenceProvides direction to a substituteEncourages reflection, refinement, and improvementEnhances student achievement
POOR PLANNING
Frustration for the teacher and the studentAimless wanderingUnmet objectivesNo connections to prior learningDisorganizationLack of needed materialsA waste of timePoor management
A GOOD LESSON INCLUDES
ObjectivesPre-assessmentList of materialsWarm-up and introductionPresentationPracticeEvaluationClosureApplication
LET’S BEGIN…The format of a lesson should..
Go one step at a time
Have a picture for every step
Have a minimal reliance on words
An effective lesson plan is a set of plans for building something – it “constructs” the learning.
The greater the structure of a lesson and the more precise the directions on
what is to be accomplished, the higher the achievement
rate.
Harry Wong, The First Days of Teaching
PRE-ASSESSMENT
What are the characteristics of the learners in the class?What do the students already know and understand?How do my students learn best?What modifications in instruction might I need to make?
MATERIALS
Plan! Prepare! Have on hand! Murphy’s Law
Envision your needs.List all resources.Have enough manipulative (when needed) for groups or individuals.
WARM-UP AND INTRODUCTION
Grab the attention of the studentsPROVIDES THE INTEREST/MOTIVATION factorSet the tone for the lesson connected to the objective A question A story A saying An activity A discussion starter
BE CREATIVE
PROCEDURES AND PRESENTATION
Sets up a step-by-step planProvides a quick review of previous learningProvides specific activities to assist students in developing the new knowledgeProvides modeling of a new skill
A picture is worth a thousand words. I hear, I see………..I do!
LEARNING ACTIVITIESGraphic organizers
Creative play
Peer presenting
Performances
Role playing
Debates
Game making
Projects
Cooperative groups
Inquiry learning
Direct instruction
Differentiation
Direct Instruction
PRACTICEAPPLYING WHAT IS LEARNED
Provide multiple learning activitiesGuided practice (teacher controlled)Use a variety of questioning strategies to
determine the level of understandingJournaling, conferencing
Independent practicePractice may be differentiated
BUILD ON SUCCESS
CLOSURE
Lesson Wrap-up: Leave students with an imprint of what the lesson covered.Students summarize the major concepts Teacher recaps the main pointsTeacher sets the stage for the next phase
of learning
EVALUATIONAssess the learning Teacher made test In-class or homework assignment Project to apply the learning in real-life situation Recitations and summaries Performance assessments Portfolios Journals Informal assessment
REFLECTION
What went well in the lesson?What problems did I experience?Are there things I could have done differently?How can I build on this lesson to make future lessons successful?
THE SUBSTITUTE…NOW WHAT?
The Key to substitute success – DETAILED LESSON PLANS Discipline routines Children with special needs Fire drill and emergency procedures Helpful students, helpful colleagues (phone #’s) Classroom schedule Names of administrators Expectations for the work Packet of extra activities
A teacher is one who brings us
tools and enables us to
use them.
Jean Toomer