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