Teaching is a noble job ^_^

It is my belief that before a person should enter the teaching profession they must first have a love of learning and be willing to share this passion with students. They need to truly enjoy working with a particular age group of children. They must possess a core set of beliefs that all children deserve respect and a chance to have a better life through the gift of learning. They must furthermore understand that is the responsibility of the teacher to be a child advocate. Teachers must have an understanding of the need to provide a learning environment where children feel safe, respected and challenged.

Effective teaching practices

Published on 26 February 2009 in Administration, Musings, Research and Teacher education. 7 Comments Tags: DI, effectiveness.

For a long time, we have known a lot about effective practices in teaching. Of course, there is debate about whether the specifics are exactly correct, whether some studies have been discredited, or whether the paradigm fits people’s biases. Despite these debates, some general guidelines about effective teaching can be distilled from educational research. Here is one general description of effective teaching practices. I consider it a helpful guide to explicit, systematic instruction. In the parlance I use, this set of features describes “direct instruction” (note the lower-case letters):

In general, researchers have found that when effective teachers teach well-structured subjects, they:

• Begin a lesson with a short review of previous, prerequisite learning.
• Begin a lesson with a short statement of goals.
• Present new material in small steps, with student practice after each step.
• Give clear and detailed instruction and explanations.
• Provide a high level of active practice for all students.
• Ask a large number of questions, check for student understanding, and obtain responses from all students.
• Guide students during initial practice.
• Provide systematic feedback and corrections.
• Provide explicit instruction and practice for seatwork exercises and, where necessary, monitor students during seatwork.

Source: Rosenshine, B. , & Stevens, R. (1986). Teaching functions. In M. C. Whittrock (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching (3rd ed., pp. 376-391). New York: Macmillan.

Teaching is my passion! I love teaching... as far as my experience is concern, I find it worth remembering. A part of my life that I always cherish. I may not be the best teacher in my group, not maybe the favorite teacher by my students but surely I imparted a part of what I am and of what I have to them. I am not practicing my profession as of the moment, but I know by heart one day, I'll be teaching again.

To my fellow teachers, I salute you all.. for teaching is truly a noble job, maybe you'll find it so routinary, so tiring or whatever at this very moment... but believe me, one day whenever you'll quit teaching, you'll miss all that routine, that files of test papers, that stressful lesson plan deadlines, that TQ corrections and other paper works and even that noise of your students that sometimes annoys you much and puts you to the limit... all these, you will miss!

A simple friendly message:

"Do your best when you are still in your teaching profession"

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