teach - be professional

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Prof R PanchanadhanAug 2000


So You Want to Be A Professional ?

•WHY DO YOU WANT TO TEACH? DO YOU KNOW THE REAL REASON?

•WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO OFFER STUDENTS? WHAT COULD YOU

BRING TO THE CLASSROOM?

•WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SPENT ANY LENGTH OF TIME IN A CLASSROOM WITH STUDENTS?

•ARE YOU WILLING TO POSSIBLY CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE TO ACCOMMODATE THIS

CAREER?


Professional Traits

Two General Areas:

Competency

Character


What makes a good teacher?

Enthusiasm Knowledge

An open mind Good students


The teacher is no longer the source of all

knowledge, but is the facilitator of learning.

In other words, not the "sage on the stage," but

the "guide on the side."

Who is a Teacher Now?


While learning has many ends,

teaching has only one:

to enable or cause learning.


Learning isLearning is NOTNOTThe Product of TeachingThe Product of Teaching

Learning is Learning is the Product of the the Product of the

activity of the activity of the LearnerLearner


Teaching = Transmitting

Learning = Knowing the Right Answer

They didn’t “get” itIt didn’t “sink in”

Constructivism as a Learning Paradigm


What are your students [really] doing?

What do you want your students to do?


Every jobis aof the manwho did it


PUNCTUAL

UNDERSTANDING

NICE

CAPABLE

HONEST


Teaching is a work of Heart


Life Life is notis not just logical just logical

butbutpsychologicalpsychological


"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

•~ Haim Ginot

ConsultancyTiruchirappalli 620 017


INSTRUCTOR

MANAGER

RESOURCEGUIDE

EVALUATORORGANISER


Lecturedispensing knowledge

Demonstrationsto experience more fully the information and concepts

Empoweringpower is like love: the more you give, the more you get.


To empower studentswith vital skills

through effective coachingto help them

achieve career goals


THE TASKITIATE

VOLVE

TEGRATEagent of change


TEACHING IS more attractive than

otherwisein that

in theory it is full-time, but in practice it is part-time.


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

~Jacques Barzun

"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?“ - Harriet Martineau


Every day, in classrooms around the world, stars are being born.

They are the students of today, the leaders of

tomorrow,inspired and nurtured

by their teachers.

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