Well, it has to have good stitching, be formed to the body without being clinging and a nice positive colour without being glaring … oh! You meant “teacher”, right? I thought you meant what makes a good tea shirt.
A good teacher knows how to google.
A good teacher is competent in the subject and in putting together and carrying out short and long-term lesson plans. A great teacher does all that but also inspires students. A great teacher is there for the student who is struggling in ways that have nothing to do with the teacher’s subject. A great teacher is one you remember for the rest of your life as a teacher who helped change your life for the better at a crucial moment. That teacher might never see the change he or she effected but knows he/she did the right thing by always leaving his/her office door open.
A good teacher need not be a classroom teacher. A good teacher is one who can explain so the student understands, who cares that the student understands, and who gently persists until the student understands.
I did most of my teaching in the inner city.
I developed a method that took ratty, cranky, mean, defensive individuals and turned them into caring, helpful, friendly human beings.
I met one of my former students by accident at an amusement park 10 years after I was his teacher.
He had become a school administrator and he told me, “Mr. Bell, I’m making lots of money from what you taught us!”
“You taught us how to play!!”
I thought I was very hard on them. I think inner city kids needed the rigor, discipline and hope for a better life that I provided them.
@ohellino - Knowing how to google is helped by having the vocabulary. Most people are unable to use synomyns and other similar words and phrases to get the right (google) search.
A lot of teachers can detect students that just copy wikipedia and other sources that lazy students use. There is a lot of resources that teacher have in order to teach students. Not all the sources are located on the computer yet.
a good teacher is one that understands that students are people, and people are always more important than the curriculum. The curriculum, is merely a tool to show the students who you are, to show them that you care and to model what you hope they will become, as best you can…they think they’re there to learn content, in fact, they’re there to learn all the soft skills they don’t realize they’re picking up until much later, and the content is just a means to an end…
ex) students think that we teach them algebra for algebra’s sake…while algebra is important, it is the logical thinking that we are really hoping they pick up on…with basic numeracy skills to get themselves through life.
students first, content second. always.
A good teacher teachers you what to think. A great teacher teaches you ‘how’ to think.
Well, based on feedback from students every semester, a great teacher makes complex knowledge more accessible, maintains high standards but equips students with the necessary tools to reach then, connect textbook with industry, and stays patient with students who struggle to make sure no one is left behind.
like Samuel implied I am alarmed that anyone able to make $6987 in a few weeks on the internet. did you see this website http://www.rev24.com
@rilavu07 - rilavu07 is apparently a phishing site – it is blocked from this blog, as is anyone who responds inappropriatly. I don’t have time for such foolishness.
There is no doubt that a good teacher inspires his/her students – but the primary function of any teacher is, IMHO, to impart knowledge. What is the teacher’s responsibility in the area of student motivation? Should the teacher spend time attempting to motivate some at the expense of teaching to the interested?
So – Can you describe the best teacher you ever had and what made her/him so memorable in your life?
@Socrates_Cafe - The best teacher – or the most memorable – or the teacher who most influenced me? I expect many of us would think back to elementary or high school – the teacher who first “turned us on”. My early schooling was curious. I attended a school populated almost exclusively by Jewish students whose parents demanded very high standards from both their kids and from the school. This might have been the only elementary public school in Florida during the 1930′s that had its own symphony orchestra. Incidentally, I was the lucky kid who didn’t have another hour of Schul after school. Curiously we observed all the Christian Holidays, as mandated by FL state law along with the mandatory daily reading from the KJV Bible. I was pretty deeply influenced by the expectations that I, along with the rest of the class, would excel in all academics. I spent a year – very ill – out of school when I was nine and pretty much taught myself to read at adult level. Some of those teachers should be remembered: Francis Allerdice, Francis Smith, Pauline Watkins, Katy LaBelle (These were all HS teachers – I can’t recall any individual elementary teacher) Later those teachers who influenced me were those who obviously loved their subject and knew what they were talking bout. Strangely, I found that at the college level their classes tended to clear out after the first couple of sessions – especially after they handed out their reading lists.
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Well, it has to have good stitching, be formed to the body without being clinging and a nice positive colour without being glaring … oh! You meant “teacher”, right? I thought you meant what makes a good tea shirt.
A good teacher knows how to google.
A good teacher is competent in the subject and in putting together and carrying out short and long-term lesson plans. A great teacher does all that but also inspires students. A great teacher is there for the student who is struggling in ways that have nothing to do with the teacher’s subject. A great teacher is one you remember for the rest of your life as a teacher who helped change your life for the better at a crucial moment. That teacher might never see the change he or she effected but knows he/she did the right thing by always leaving his/her office door open.
A good teacher need not be a classroom teacher. A good teacher is one who can explain so the student understands, who cares that the student understands, and who gently persists until the student understands.
I did most of my teaching in the inner city.
I developed a method that took ratty, cranky, mean, defensive individuals and turned them into caring, helpful, friendly human beings.
I met one of my former students by accident at an amusement park 10 years after I was his teacher.
He had become a school administrator and he told me, “Mr. Bell, I’m making lots of money from what you taught us!”
“You taught us how to play!!”
I thought I was very hard on them. I think inner city kids needed the rigor, discipline and hope for a better life that I provided them.
@ohellino - Knowing how to google is helped by having the vocabulary. Most people are unable to use synomyns and other similar words and phrases to get the right (google) search.
A lot of teachers can detect students that just copy wikipedia and other sources that lazy students use. There is a lot of resources that teacher have in order to teach students. Not all the sources are located on the computer yet.
a good teacher is one that understands that students are people, and people are always more important than the curriculum. The curriculum, is merely a tool to show the students who you are, to show them that you care and to model what you hope they will become, as best you can…they think they’re there to learn content, in fact, they’re there to learn all the soft skills they don’t realize they’re picking up until much later, and the content is just a means to an end…
ex) students think that we teach them algebra for algebra’s sake…while algebra is important, it is the logical thinking that we are really hoping they pick up on…with basic numeracy skills to get themselves through life.
students first, content second. always.
A good teacher teachers you what to think. A great teacher teaches you ‘how’ to think.
Well, based on feedback from students every semester, a great teacher makes complex knowledge more accessible, maintains high standards but equips students with the necessary tools to reach then, connect textbook with industry, and stays patient with students who struggle to make sure no one is left behind.
like Samuel implied I am alarmed that anyone able to make $6987 in a few weeks on the internet. did you see this website http://www.rev24.com
@rilavu07 -
rilavu07 is apparently a phishing site – it is blocked from this blog, as is anyone who responds inappropriatly. I don’t have time for such foolishness.
There is no doubt that a good teacher inspires his/her students – but the primary function of any teacher is, IMHO, to impart knowledge. What is the teacher’s responsibility in the area of student motivation? Should the teacher spend time attempting to motivate some at the expense of teaching to the interested?
So – Can you describe the best teacher you ever had and what made her/him so memorable in your life?
@Socrates_Cafe -
The best teacher – or the most memorable – or the teacher who most influenced me?
I expect many of us would think back to elementary or high school – the teacher who first “turned us on”. My early schooling was curious. I attended a school populated almost exclusively by Jewish students whose parents demanded very high standards from both their kids and from the school. This might have been the only elementary public school in Florida during the 1930′s that had its own symphony orchestra. Incidentally, I was the lucky kid who didn’t have another hour of Schul after school. Curiously we observed all the Christian Holidays, as mandated by FL state law along with the mandatory daily reading from the KJV Bible. I was pretty deeply influenced by the expectations that I, along with the rest of the class, would excel in all academics. I spent a year – very ill – out of school when I was nine and pretty much taught myself to read at adult level. Some of those teachers should be remembered: Francis Allerdice, Francis Smith, Pauline Watkins, Katy LaBelle (These were all HS teachers – I can’t recall any individual elementary teacher)
Later those teachers who influenced me were those who obviously loved their subject and knew what they were talking bout. Strangely, I found that at the college level their classes tended to clear out after the first couple of sessions – especially after they handed out their reading lists.