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ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
Submitted By,
varsha Mohanachandran.
U.M
Candidate Code; 169 18 361 008
Option: Social Science
Emmanuel College Of B.Ed Training,Vazhichal
Self Reflection,Peer
Evaluation,Assessing student’s performance as feedback for their progress,
teacher’s proficiency, talent involvement
INTRODUCTION
Teachers are the
greatest assets of any education system. They stand in the interface of the
transmission of knowledge, skills and values. Teacher education plays a vital
role in reforming and strengthening the education system of any country.
Training of teachers has emerging global trends in education and the overall
needs and aspirations of the people. The Quality of education depends on the
quality teachers and teaching. The way teachers are trained is an important
aspect to improve quality.
Reflective practice has
become a focus of interest and a powerful movement in teacher education. The
complexity of teaching requires teachers to question their practices for their
own professional development in order to improve and to increase learner
performance. Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on an action so as
to engage in a process of continuous learning. A key rationale for reflective
practice is that experience alone does not necessarily lead to learning;
deliberate reflection on experience is essential.
Reflective practice is
an important tool in practice-based professional learning settings where people
learn from their own professional experiences, rather than from formal learning
or knowledge transfer. It is the most important source of personal professional
development and improvement. It is also an important way to bring together
theory and practice; through reflection a person is able to see and label forms
of thought and theory within the context of his or her work. A person who
reflects throughout his or her practice is not just looking back on past
actions and events, but is taking a conscious look at emotions, experiences,
actions, and responses, and using that information to add to his or her
existing knowledge base and reach a higher level of understanding.
Reflection, in the
words of a layman, “… simply means thinking about something,” but for some, “it
is a well-defined and crafted practice that carries very specific meaning and
associated action” (Loughran, 2002). Reflective teaching, at a very general
level involves ‘thinking about one’s teaching’. Reflective teaching is a
process where teachers think over their teaching practices, analyze how
something was taught and how the practice might be improved or changed for
better learning outcomes. Some points of consideration in the reflection
process might be what is currently being done, why it's being done and how well
students are learning. By collecting information about what goes on in their
classroom, and by analyzing and evaluating this information, they identify and
explore their own practices and underlying beliefs. This may then lead to
changes and improvements in their teaching.
Reflective teaching is
a beneficial process in teacher professional development, both for preservice
and in-service teachers. Ur (1999) says that the first and most important basis
for professional progress is simply the teachers’ own reflection on daily
classroom events. So, she gives emphasis to personal progress through
reflecting on one’s own activities and practices that happened in the class and
thinking.
Reflective practice is
a process that facilitates teaching, learning and understanding, and it plays a
central role in teachers’ professional development. When student teachers carry
out systematic enquiry into themselves, they understand themselves, their
practices and their students. By constantly looking into their own actions and
experiences, they professionally grow in their own. In this study, the
researchers conducted a qualitative research to see the effectiveness of
reflective practices in the development of student teachers. The study examines
how the teacher educator created opportunities for student teachers to develop
their reflective practices during their practice teaching sessions. The paper
attempts to establish that reflective practice is a tool for student teachers
to explore themselves and thereby leading to their professional development.
SELF REFLECTON
Self-reflection is a simple way to dig deeper into your
feelings and find out why you were doing something or feeling a certain way.
With a profession as challenging as teaching,
self-reflection offers teachers an opportunity to think about what works and
what doesn’t in their classroom. We teachers can use reflective teaching as a
way to analyse and evaluate our own practices so we can focus on what works.
Why is
Self-Reflection So Important?
Effective teachers are first to admit that no matter how good a lesson
is, our teaching strategies can always be
improved—oftentimes it’s why we seek out our colleagues’ opinions.
However, we run the risk of our audience making snap judgments about our
instruction without truly having the context to support it—especially in regard
to why a student didn’t understand it or why something happened amidst your
instruction.
Self-reflection is important because it’s a process that makes you
collect, record, and analyze everything that happened in the lesson so you can
make improvements in your teaching strategies where necessary.
The Process of
Reflection
Connecting self-reflection to effective teaching is a
process. The first step is to figure out what you want to reflect upon—are you
looking at a particular feature of your teaching or is this reflection in
response to a specific problem in your classroom? Whatever the case may be, you
should start by collecting information.
Here are a few ways that you can do this:
- Self-Reflective Journal: A
journal is an easy way to reflect upon what just happened during your
instruction. After each lesson, simply jot down a few notes describing
your reactions and feelings and then follow up with any observations you
have about your students. If it helps, you can break up your journal into
concrete sections, such lesson objective, materials, classroom management,
students, teacher, etc. In this way, you can be consistent with how you
measure your assessments time after time. You can find specific questions
to ask yourself below.
- Video Recording: A video
recording of your teaching is valuable because it provides an unaltered
and unbiased vantage point for how effective your lesson may be from both
a teacher and student perspective. Additionally, a video may act as an
additional set of eyes to catch errant behavior that you hadn’t spotted at
the time. Many colleges actually use this method to teach up and coming
teachers the value of self-reflection.
- Student Observation: Students
are very observant and love to give feedback. You can hand out a simple
survey or questionnaire after your lesson to get students’ perspectives
about how the lesson went. Think critically about what questions you’d
like to ask and encourage your children to express their thoughts
thoroughly. It’ll not only be a learning experience for you, but also an
indirect exercise in writing for them.
- Peer
Observation: Invite a colleague to come
into your classroom and observe your teaching. Now this is much different
than when you have your principal come in and watch you—it’s much more
casual and devoid of darting eyes. As a result, you’ll be able to teach
more naturally and give your colleague an honest perspective of your
instruction methods. To help him frame your lesson critique more clearly,
create a questionnaire (you can use some of the questions below) for your
colleague to fill out as they observe. Afterward, make some time to sit
down with him so he can more accurately convey what he saw.
PEER EVALUAION
Peer Evaluation or Peer review is a type of
performance evaluation that is done by one or more people of matching
competencies. Peer review is usually done among the members of the same team.
This is a method employed to preserve the quality standard at a desired level
and improve productivity and performance.
Advantages:
• It provides a broader range of
information about the employees. This is important especially in today’s team
based workplaces.
• The provide a complete picture of
employee interactions and also reveals the employee’s strengths and weaknesses.
These may or may not be very apparent to the manager, but in the peer reviews
these can be easily captured.
• Knowing that performance assessment
is not only done by their managers but also their team mates encourages the
employees to work harder and impress their colleagues
• The feedback provided by peers are
easier to relate with. This helps the employees to understand their
shortcomings and enhance their performance
Disadvantages:
• Opinions provided in the reviews may
be polarized. Especially in case of departmental loyalty or friendship, it
becomes very difficult to judge an employee from the review provided by their
colleagues. The same may also happen in case there exits any unhealthy
competition between colleagues or departments.
• This may lead to overburden of work
for the employees and may in turn hamper their regular tasks.
• Employees form small communities at
work place especially those from the same team. Asking them to evaluate each
other may be uncomfortable
• If confidentiality of the reviews are
not maintained properly, the y might strain peer relations and affect team
dynamics
Peer evaluation is an
effective collaborative learning strategy. Related to self-assessment, peer
evaluation encourages students to critically examine a task and its
performance, then communicate constructive suggestions for improvement. In the
process of examining the work of peers, students reflect on the meaning of
quality work in general, especially when consulting a detailed rubric or
checklist as a guide.
The use of peer
evaluation in group work can increase motivation, engagement and social
presence in a course while maximizing instructional time. In effect, the
students themselves provide feedback to one another, while the instructor
focuses on more targeted guidance. The key for successful peer feedback is a
constructive, honest environment in which students feel safe to share honest,
yet helpful criticism.
Through monitoring
one another, based on a rubric or checklist, students ultimately learn to
better self-assess themselves, a skill which pay dividends throughout their
academic and professional career. As additional benefits of peer evaluation,
students learn to:
1. apply course concepts and skills to solving problems
2. collaborate with others towards a common goal
3. examine diverse perspectives and ideas
4. assume greater responsibility in the learning process
5. apply (and possibly create) objective
criteria to judge the quality of a task or performance
Peer evaluations
also resolve the "free rider" problem with group work, that is, the
tendency of students to rely on team members to take the initiative in
completing group assignments or tasks. By adding an element of accountability
and critical review, students will more likely exert effort to ensure a
positive review from their peers (and create a good impression).
Tips to Implement Effectively
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To implement an effective peer evaluation students must fully
understand expectations in advance. Set clear goals and
expectations for the process.
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A detailed rubric or checklist is
critical to ensure evaluations are respectful, constructive and helpful.
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To avoid emotional complications and hurt feelings, provide
examples of effective evaluations. Be sure to emphasize
as required characteristics that evaluations be respectful, constructive and
helpful.
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To encourage self-direction and responsibility, allow students
to create their own rubrics or checklists (though
you should still approve prior to use as an actual assessment tool).
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Allow students to practice peer evaluations, preferably in the
form of a self-assessment or a peer review for a low-stakes activity (e.g.
class or online discussion).
ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS AS
FEEDBACK FOR STUDENTS PROGRESS
Assessment is a critical piece of the learning process. This
lesson gives an overview of assessment, why it benefits both teachers and
students
Assessment is
a critical step in the learning process. It determines whether or not the
course's learning objectives have been met. A learning objective is
what students should know or be able to do by the time a lesson is completed.
Assessment affects many facets of education, including student grades,
placement, and advancement as well as curriculum, instructional needs, and
school funding.
Assessment is
designed so that students understand their progress towards course goals and
modify their behavior in order to meet those goals. In order to do that,
assessment should be ongoing. In other words, classes that use one or two exams
a term are not using assessment as effectively as it could be used. In order
for students to gain a true representation of their understanding, frequent assessment
is critical, and it should be accompanied with feedback.
Assessment is
really only as good as the feedback that accompanies it. Feedback is
the teacher's response to student work. In order to make assessment as
effective as possible, teachers should provide their feedback as well as a
letter grade. It is important that students understand why a particular
question was incorrect or why their essay did not meet requirements.
Make Assessments Useful
For
Students
Nearly every student has suffered the experience of
spending hours preparing for a major assessment, only to discover that the
material that he or she had studied was different from what the teacher chose
to emphasize on the assessment. This experience teaches students two
un-fortunate lessons. First, students realize that hard work and effort don't
pay off in school because the time and effort that they spent studying had
little or no influence on the results. And second, they learn that they cannot
trust their teachers (Guskey, 2000a). These are hardly the lessons that
responsible teachers want their students to learn.
Nonetheless, this experience is common because many
teachers still mistakenly believe that they must keep their assessments secret.
As a result, students come to regard assessments as guessing games, especially
from the middle grades on. They view success as depending on how well they can
guess what their teachers will ask on quizzes, tests, and other assessments.
Some teachers even take pride in their ability to out-guess students. They ask
questions about isolated concepts or obscure understandings just to see whether
students are reading carefully. Generally, these teachers don't include such
“gotcha” questions maliciously, but rather—often unconsciously—because such
questions were asked of them when they were students.
Classroom assessments that serve as meaningful sources of
information don't surprise students. Instead, these assessments reflect the
concepts and skills that the teacher emphasized in class, along with the
teacher's clear criteria for judging students' performance. These concepts,
skills, and criteria align with the teacher's instructional activities and,
ideally, with state or district standards. Students see these assessments as
fair measures of important learning goals. Teachers facilitate learning by
providing students with important feedback on their learning progress and by
helping them identify learning problems (Bloom, Madaus, & Hastings, 1981;
Stiggins, 2002).
Critics sometimes contend that this approach means
“teaching to the test.” But the crucial issue is, What determines the content
and methods of teaching? If the test is the primary determinant of what
teachers teach and how they teach it, then we are indeed “teaching to the
test.” But if desired learning goals are the foundation of students'
instructional experiences, then assessments of student learning are simply
extensions of those same goals. Instead of “teaching to the test,” teachers are
more accurately “testing what they teach.” If a concept or skill is important
enough to assess, then it should be important enough to teach. And if it is not
important enough to teach, then there's little justification for assessing it.
For
Teachers
The best classroom assessments also serve as meaningful
sources of information for teachers, helping them identify what they taught
well and what they need to work on. Gathering this vital information does not
require a sophisticated statistical analysis of assessment results. Teachers
need only make a simple tally of how many students missed each assessment item
or failed to meet a specific criterion. State assessments sometimes provide
similar item-by-item information, but concerns about item security and the cost
of developing new items each year usually make assessment developers reluctant
to offer such detailed information. Once teachers have made specific tallies,
they can pay special attention to the trouble spots—those items or criteria
missed by large numbers of students in the class.
In reviewing these results, the teacher must first consider
the quality of the item or criterion. Perhaps the question is ambiguously
worded or the criterion is unclear. Perhaps students mis-interpreted the
question. Whatever the case, teachers must determine whether these items
adequately address the knowledge, understanding, or skill that they were
intended to measure.
If teachers find no obvious problems with the item or
criterion, then they must turn their attention to their teaching. When as many
as half the students in a class answer a clear question incorrectly or fail to
meet a particular criterion, it's not a student learning problem—it's a
teaching problem. Whatever teaching strategy was used, whatever examples were
employed, or whatever explanation was offered, it simply didn't work.
Analyzing assessment results in this way means setting
aside some powerful ego issues. Many teachers may initially say, “I taught
them. They just didn't learn it!” But on reflection, most recognize that their
effectiveness is not defined on the basis of what they do as teachers but
rather on what their students are able to do. Can effective teaching take place
in the absence of learning? Certainly not.
Some argue that such a perspective puts too much
responsibility on teachers and not enough on students. Occasionally, teachers
respond, “Don't students have responsibilities in this process? Shouldn't
students display initiative and personal accountability?”
Indeed, teachers and students share responsibility for
learning. Even with valiant teaching efforts, we cannot guarantee that all
students will learn everything excellently. Only rarely do teachers find items
or assessment criteria that every student answers correctly. A few students are
never willing to put forth the necessary effort, but these students tend to be
the exception, not the rule. If a teacher is reaching fewer than half of the
students in the class, the teacher's method of instruction needs to improve.
And teachers need this kind of evidence to help target their instructional
improvement efforts.
The Benefits of Assessment
Using classroom assessment to improve student learning is
not a new idea. More than 30 years ago, Benjamin Bloom showed how to conduct
this process in practical and highly effective ways when he described the
practice of mastery learning (Bloom, 1968, 1971). But since that time, the
emphasis on assessments as tools for accountability has diverted attention from
this more important and fundamental purpose.
Assessments can be a vital component in our efforts to
improve education. But as long as we use them only as a means to rank schools
and students, we will miss their most powerful benefits. We must focus instead
on helping teachers change the way they use assessment results, improve the
quality of their classroom assessments, and align their assessments with valued
learning goals and state or district standards. When teachers' classroom
assessments become an integral part of the instructional process and a central
ingredient in their efforts to help students learn, the benefits of assessment
for both students and teachers will be boundless.
TEACHER’S PROFICIENCY
Teachers play vital roles in the lives of the students in their
classrooms. Teachers are best known for the role of educating the students that
are placed in their care. Beyond that, teachers serve many other roles in the
classroom. Teachers set the tone of their classrooms, build a warm environment,
mentor and nurture students, become role models, and listen and look for signs
of trouble.
Teaching Knowledge
The most common role a teacher plays
in the classroom is to teach knowledge to children. Teachers are given a
curriculum they must follow that meets state guidelines. This curriculum is
followed by the teacher so that throughout the year, all pertinent knowledge is
dispensed to the students. Teachers teach in many ways including lectures,
small group activities and hands-on learning activities.
Creating Classroom
Environment
Teachers also play an important role
in the classroom when it comes to the environment. Students often mimic a
teacher’s actions. If the teacher prepares a warm, happy environment, students
are more likely to be happy. An environment set by the teacher can be either
positive or negative. If students sense the teacher is angry, students may
react negatively to that and therefore learning can be impaired. Teachers are
responsible for the social behavior in their classrooms. This behavior is
primarily a reflection of the teacher’s actions and the environment she sets.
Role Modeling
Teachers typically do not think of
themselves as role models, however, inadvertently they are. Students spend a
great deal of time with their teacher and therefore, the teacher becomes a role
model to them. This can be a positive or negative effect depending on the
teacher. Teachers are there not only to teach the children, but also to love
and care for them. Teachers are typically highly respected by people in the
community and therefore become a role model to students and parents.
Mentoring
Mentoring is a natural role taken on
by teachers, whether it is intentional or not. This again can have positive or
negative effects on children. Mentoring is a way a teacher encourages students
to strive to be the best they can. This also includes encouraging students to
enjoy learning. Part of mentoring consists of listening to students. By taking
time to listen to what students say, teachers impart to students a sense of
ownership in the classroom. This helps build their confidence and helps them
want to be successful.
Signs of Trouble
Another role played by teachers is a
protector role. Teachers are taught to look for signs of trouble in the
students. When students’ behaviors change or physical signs of abuse are
noticed, teachers are required to look into the problem. Teachers must follow
faculty procedures when it comes to following up on all signs of trouble.
What
Makes a Great Teacher
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expert communication skills
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superior listening skills
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deep knowledge and passion for their subject matter
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the ability to build caring relationships with students
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friendliness and approachability
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excellent preparation and organization skills
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strong work ethic
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community-building skills
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high expectations for all
1. Excellent Communication Skills
You'd
think that the most important quality for a teacher to possess would be
knowledge, since that's what the job is all about, after all: sharing
knowledge. But no matter how knowledgeable a person is, if they can't convey
what they know to others in a way that is not only understandable but engaging,
the knowledge itself is useless.
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If a teacher's communication skills (verbal,
nonverbal, and visual, which involve speaking, writing, imagery, body language,
and the organization of ideas into understandable structures) are good, they
can convey knowledge with better skill and results.
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Since a large part of good communication is knowing
when the audience has understood, these teachers notice when they have
communicated effectively and when they have not. They will often paraphrase,
illustrate, or take another tact entirely when it becomes apparent that their
communication has fallen flat or has not reached or connected to the entire
class.
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A good teacher notices when even one student among
many does not understand, and makes an effort to communicate individually when
necessary.
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Communication also involves explaining exactly what
the assignments and expectations are. When students fully understand what is
expected of them, it's much easier for them to deliver.
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Interestingly, not only are communication skills
incredibly important in the classroom, but they are among the most important
skills in any setting. According to a recent survey by the Pew Research
Center, most Americans view communication as the most
important skill for long term success “to get ahead in the world today.” So by
being good communicators, teachers are modeling important lifetime skills by
example.
2. Superior Listening Skills
In
addition to being good communicators, good teachers also happen to be excellent
listeners. As the Turkish proverb says,"If speaking is silver, then
listening is gold." Of course, effective communication only happens when
at least two parties are actively involved in the process together, and the
only way to know if communication is heard is by asking (and listening to the
answer).
So in an ideal
learning environment, teachers ask important questions and then actively,
carefully, empathetically listen to what learners have to say. When good
teachers develop this patient quality in themselves, they start to become
great. Great teachers listen hard and then use what they hear to improve the
communication.
3. Deep Knowledge of and Passion
for the Subject Matter
There is a saying that a teacher is
only as good as what they know. If a teacher lacks knowledge in a subject, that
dearth of understanding is passed along to the students. And keep in mind that
although formal education is one way a teacher might gain the knowledge they
need in order to teach well, there are other ways.
Passion is infectious. Love of a
subject matter inspires a person to learn more, dig deeper, and think harder
about it, so passion inspires deeper knowledge. The best teachers are those
that clearly love their subjects and pass that passion and desire to learn more
on to their students. When the teacher not only has the right answer to a
student's question but can expand the discussion with vivid examples, amusing
illustrative anecdotes, and relevant facts, and when the teacher has a deep
well of understanding and expertise to draw on, then every lesson is enriched,
and every student might be inspired.
4. The Ability to Develop Strong
Relationships With Students
It's not enough just to know what
you're talking about, though, and a great teacher doesn't only teach from the
head. In the best classrooms, hearts are involved, as well. In order to create
successful learning environments, great teachers need to be able to build
caring relationships with their students. It is the caring student-teacher
relationship that facilitates the exchange of information.
The best teachers are often the ones
that care the most deeply, not only about their jobs, but about every student
they serve. It's not enough just to love the subject matter: Great teachers
also share a love of students. Caring about the students is what inspires teachers
to reach out, do better, communicate more, ask, learn, refine, and improve.
This is something that can't be taught, not even in the best school.
5. Friendliness and
Approachability
Because it's the teacher's job to help
students learn, they must be easy to approach. Students will have questions
that can't be answered if the teacher isn't friendly and easy to talk to. The
crabby, unapproachable, terse, mean, arrogant, rude, all-business teacher can't
last long. If the students think of their teacher as their enemy, they
certainly won't learn much. The best teachers are the most open, welcoming, and
easy to approach.
6. Preparation and Organization
Skills
No matter how charming you are, if you
show up for a class without an excellent plan for how to teach your material,
you won't succeed. Great teachers spend endless hours outside of the classroom
preparing, designing lessons, learning more (both about their subject matter
specifically and how to teach, in general), participating in professional development,
and thinking of fresh and interesting ways to reach the students.
The best teachers have excellent
lesson plans, lectures, and assignments that they continually improve. They
have studied extensively and read widely about how to teach and methods to
facilitate learning. They structure their days, lessons, and units in a way
that fosters maximal understanding and interest. They collaborate with other
teachers and attend classes to learn more about their subject matter and how to
best convey it. They are available outside of class, and they grade papers
quickly, writing personal notes to help their students understand.
7. A Strong Work Ethic
Anyone who's done it knows that
teaching is one of the hardest jobs there is. The secret that keeps them going
is that great teachers really, really want to be great teachers, and they'll
stop at nothing do succeed. A great teacher will do almost anything to help
their students. They always make time and they're always willing to help. If
something doesn't work, they'll work tirelessly until they find a solution. A
teacher's work is never done but the best ones never stop trying, they never
quit.
8. The Ability to Build Community
The best teachers understand the
importance of building supportive and collaborative environments. In addition
to forming caring relationships with each student, the best teachers foster
healthy and mutually respectful relationships between the students. They know
how to establish guidelines and assign roles to enlist every student's help and
participation. Every student feels like they are not only accepted by the
larger group, but that their presence is a necessary ingredient in the
classroom's magic. Their classrooms are like little communities where each
individual plays a part and feels at home.
9. High Expectations for All
Studies show that a teacher's
expectations have a huge impact on student achievement. The best teachers have
high expectations for all of their students. They expect a lot from each
student, but those expectations are both challenging and realistic. This
doesn't mean they hold all students to the same high standard, but instead that
they know what each student is capable of individually and strive to help each
one attain their personal best.
TALENT
INVOLVEMENT
Teaching can be a very rewarding career choice. You will have the
opportunity to be in an educational environment, inspiring and motivating
students to learn. But like every career, teaching can be difficult. Having
specific skills and talents will help you succeed in the classroom. But don’t
fret if you feel you lack these skills; they can always be learned. If you are
passionate and care about making a difference, chances are that you can be a
great teacher.
Passion
Everyone has probably had one teacher who just didn’t care. He spent the day explaining terms in a monotone voice, threw out whatever handout was available and screamed for students to behave. This sort of lackluster and lazy behavior shows a lack of passion for his profession. The most important quality of a good teacher is a passion for learning. As a teacher, you need to get students excited about learning and help them learn through your own enthusiasm. If you love what you are doing, it shines through. But remember that passion also needs to be matched by competency in the area in which you are teaching.
Everyone has probably had one teacher who just didn’t care. He spent the day explaining terms in a monotone voice, threw out whatever handout was available and screamed for students to behave. This sort of lackluster and lazy behavior shows a lack of passion for his profession. The most important quality of a good teacher is a passion for learning. As a teacher, you need to get students excited about learning and help them learn through your own enthusiasm. If you love what you are doing, it shines through. But remember that passion also needs to be matched by competency in the area in which you are teaching.
OrganizationalSkills
Teachers and educators are multitasks. There is never enough time in the day to complete what needs to be completed. If you are highly organized, you already have an important skill. A day at school can easily be wasted if time is not managed properly. A good teacher enforces strict routines and procedures so that students know exactly what is expected of them and what they need to be doing. An efficient classroom is an organized classroom.
Teachers and educators are multitasks. There is never enough time in the day to complete what needs to be completed. If you are highly organized, you already have an important skill. A day at school can easily be wasted if time is not managed properly. A good teacher enforces strict routines and procedures so that students know exactly what is expected of them and what they need to be doing. An efficient classroom is an organized classroom.
Patience
Working with children can be difficult and frustrating. They all come from different backgrounds, and all have different skills and different personalities. Nevertheless, you are expected to reach all of them academically. This is a huge responsibility. You need to be patient in handling tough situations and misbehaviour. Students need to know that you care about them as individuals.
Working with children can be difficult and frustrating. They all come from different backgrounds, and all have different skills and different personalities. Nevertheless, you are expected to reach all of them academically. This is a huge responsibility. You need to be patient in handling tough situations and misbehaviour. Students need to know that you care about them as individuals.
Creativity
The nation is moving towards stricter standards and benchmarks, and testing has become a huge issue. A good teacher will learn the curriculum through and through, and tailor it to the needs of students. It’s all about creativity and presenting that information in a way that all students will understand. Lesson plans need to inspire students; not every student has the same learning style, and good teachers offer variety in their lesson plans.
The nation is moving towards stricter standards and benchmarks, and testing has become a huge issue. A good teacher will learn the curriculum through and through, and tailor it to the needs of students. It’s all about creativity and presenting that information in a way that all students will understand. Lesson plans need to inspire students; not every student has the same learning style, and good teachers offer variety in their lesson plans.
CONCLUSION
The
reflective practice is a cyclical process, because once we start to implement
changes, then the reflective and evaluative cycle begins again. As a result of
reflection, the teacher may decide to do something in a different way, or may
just decide that what she/he has been doing is the best way. Therefore, being a
teacher one needs to reflect on the experiences or activities one is doing for
one’s growth. In short, by developing knowledge and understanding the setting
practice and the ability to identify and react to the problems the student
teachers can become effective teachers. Teachers can deal with the needs and
different issues of the learners and demand of time if they reflects on their
daily teaching learning activities for their professional growth. To deal and
survive in their professional field, the student teachers need to grow and
bring changes in their behaviour and style. Reflection is a flash back that the
teachers need to mediate for their development.
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