Learning Blog #1 Effective Teaching

Effective Teaching

1.Teaching Involves Social and Ethical Matters.

As teachers they must be able to adapt to all walks of life. I understand that people come from different statuses, different religions, or cultures, but also these differences bring what people believe to be good or evil, right or wrong. When students or parents do not have the same ethics as yourself as a teacher how can they agree what is to you wrong? How can one decide the difference between abuse and discipline when a parent believes that they are doing is right, and that they have the right to smack their kid, yet you yourself have come from a non-violent household. As a teacher should you fight for what you believe in?

2. Teaching Involves Multicultural Students.

The world is being coming a multicultural place, and with that we must accept that “a person's a person, no matter how small” (Dr. Seuss), ethnicity, or culture. Society has come along way, but there are still intolerance's that need to be addressed. Some teachers cannot tolerate a cultural shift in a community or school. In my experience I have scene some of my most influential teachers leave my school for that very reason. The reconfiguration of the four High Schools in the North Delta School District, making them all 8-12 rather 8-10 and 10-12, brought on many cultural challenges, schools that had a mixture of culture became more dominate in others, made school a completely different environment which students and teachers were use to and in my opinion made it more difficult to learn, and provided a negative exposure to the earlier grades.

3.Teacher's Must Have Subject Matter Competence

Yes, this is a very important point and I cannot say that I do not agree with it but a teacher can know everything there is to know about a subject, but if they cannot make it meaningful and fun they are useless. I myself have dropped many classes because the teacher was drab, because they were only teaching it because they were asked to.

4.Teacher's Must Have Professional Skills

1. Instructional Strategies, need to be varied, they must challenge what students have difficulties with, but also nurture what the students excel at.
2. Goal Setting and Instructional Planning, is important because it allows the teacher see where they are and where they ought to be.
3. Class Room Management, has to be the thing that frightens me the most in the teaching profession, how can you get kids who don't want to be there to listen and behave. I myself was not pleasant at times always getting sent to the office, but when a teacher started giving me positive attention I wanted to stop misbehaving. It's funny to think that it is almost easy to manipulate a child to do what is best, you just have to learn the right tricks.
4. Motivational Skills to me is competition, it's the rewards, the grades and doing what the kids love. They may not always want to do Math or Socials, but they will knowing they have to in order to get their desired outcome.
5. Communication Skills is being a to talk to the students effectively, but with the right body language.
6. Working Effectively With Students With Diverse Backgrounds: everyone is different, so there isn't much I want to say.
7. Technological Skills is important when teaching students from a technical age.

5.Commitment

Commitment to help students learn, has a huge effect on what they think of you of as a teacher and what they will ultimately think about their experience at school. Students will remember how you helped them study their multiplication tables, how you were at every event, and even coached the basketball team. As a teacher that is what I hope to be, because I will enjoy my job and when work is good it is easy to relax when your at home and not worry about what a terrible day you might have.

6.Professional Growth

1. Developing a Positive Identity: Self satisfaction, and a positive understanding of the work you do.

2. Seek Advice From Competent Teachers: Learn all you can and adjust it to make it your own.

3. Life Long Learning

4. Build up Good Resources and Support

7.Professional Learning Networks

Establish connections, with teachers, staff, administrators, anyone that can help in your professional careers, but there is that word “Professional” this means that is you are on a social networking site be professional no one from the school should see your head in a toilet after a night of hard drinking or see that you have students on your friends list.

So for my first blog assignment I decided to go over what we learned in class, and add my own thoughts, and experiences to it. My professor is Robert Christopher Nellis, and his class is Educational Psychology 200.