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schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Theres a zen to good teaching. Digging into the right now with your kids.

But nowadays I'm leaning even more towards taoism. Flow with them. Be like water.

Thats how I'm approaching teaching (& life) now in my older years & getting some nice results.

Not being facetious. If you're halfway-inclined, maybe give this a thought.

EZE · Joined: 05 May 2012

No two classes are alike, so each one is an adaptation. But regardless of which class I'm teaching...

I try to be like the great teachers I had when I was a student, not the crappy ones even if they were popular.

My siblings are all professionals earning six figure salaries. I'm working at a hagwon. As much as possible, I try to guide the students into doing the types of things that made my siblings academically excellent and discourage them from doing the things that made me an underachiever. They're not allowed to be me. Laughing

Above all, I want them to understand why the correct answers are what they are. Knowing a correct answer is meaningless in the long run if they don't understand why it's the correct answer. It's like the old proverb. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life."

A lot of my kids are taking the TOSEL tomorrow, so I'm hoping I haven't let them down with inferior teaching methods.

trueblue · Joined: 15 Jun 2014 Location: In between the lines

regardless of of quotation mistakes, it DOES help to go through the entire thread....

The previous two posters....I like it. I agree. I will ruminate on those approaches and learn from them.

trueblue · Joined: 15 Jun 2014 Location: In between the lines

For example, earlier, Maximum wrote..

drcrazy · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:56 pm Post subject:

Squire · Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Location: Jeollanam-do

I consider presentation to be one of the most important aspects of teaching. From all I've seen of other teachers the best have always been on the ball at all times and every part of the lesson goes smoothly and transitions efficiently into the next part as if they've taught that specific lesson a thousand times. The worst I've seen are the teachers that dither; clearly haven't checked the CD and powerpoints they're teaching before the class; are opening programs and files during a class rather than having them there ready; ask questions and give instructions as if they aren't sure what they're talking about; give unclear instructions on how to do activities- generally just present themselves as someone who has never taught before and hasn't even bothered to review the material they're teaching.

I think a good teacher should be like a news presenter and teach with absolute confidence in what they're doing. Bad presentation would be coming across flustered, stressed and unsure.

I was going to suggest having a lot of energy and being very loud and clear (without coming across flustered) , but then I thought about some teachers I've seen or worked with whose calm style seemed to rub off on the kids and resulted in an environment where the teacher barely had to project their voice to be heard and understood. I think both calm and energetic styles can work depending on the person and how effective they are

drcrazy · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:52 am Post subject:

trueblue · Joined: 15 Jun 2014 Location: In between the lines

[quote]I consider presentation to be one of the most important aspects of teaching. From all I've seen of other teachers the best have always been on the ball at all times and every part of the lesson goes smoothly and transitions efficiently into the next part as if they've taught that specific lesson a thousand times. The worst I've seen are the teachers that dither; clearly haven't checked the CD and powerpoints they're teaching before the class; are opening programs and files during a class rather than having them there ready; ask questions and give instructions as if they aren't sure what they're talking about; give unclear instructions on how to do activities- generally just present themselves as someone who has never taught before and hasn't even bothered to review the material they're teaching.

I think a good teacher should be like a news presenter and teach with absolute confidence in what they're doing. Bad presentation would be coming across flustered, stressed and unsure.

I was going to suggest having a lot of energy and being very loud and clear (without coming across flustered) , but then I thought about some teachers I've seen or worked with whose calm style seemed to rub off on the kids and resulted in an environment where the teacher barely had to project their voice to be heard and understood. I think both calm and energetic styles can

Spoken with wisdom...