Monday, November 16, 2015

The Best Teachers


The best teachers…

o      Build relationships with students.

o      Know when a student is successful.

o      Have sufficient understanding of the student’s understanding.

o      Demonstrate a willingness to explain material and help students with their work.

o      Know enough about the content to provide meaningful and challenging experiences.

o      Passion reflects the thrills as well as the frustrations of learning.

o      It requires more than content knowledge, acts of skilled teaching or engaged students to make the difference—it requires a love of the discipline being taught.

o      Provide clear learning intentions

o      Provide challenging success criteria

o      Use a range of teaching strategies

o      Know when students are not progressing

o      Provide feedback

o      Visibly learn themselves.

 

 

In their everyday practices they ask:

Who did I teach well, who not so well?

What did I teach well, what not so well?

Where are the gaps/strengths or achieved/to be achieved?

 

 

Expert teachers don’t rely on what has been done before, but question, interrogate, challenge and seek improvement.

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