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| Mar 31, 2008 - 10:53 am |
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Statement: Being a good teacher has little to do with the subject that you teach. The subject that you teach is secondary to classroom management. Throw a good disapline plan into the mix also (hopefully the School you teach at will provide that for you, but smaller schools do not.) So here is a list a person needs to be good at to be successful as a teacher.
Listed in priority:
1.) CLassroom management
2.) Classroom disapline (if not provided by your school)
3.) A Love for the subject you teach (you will not be teaching anything without the first two in place: every single day.)
| Quote: | | [Mar 31, 2008 - 1:41pm] Valience: Ooh... STRONGLY disagree. You can't teach what you don't know. The other two are important, but move number 3 to number 0. Teachers who don't know about what they are teaching SUCK!!! I'm a student, so I know. If you don't know about the subject, DON'T TEACH IT! It's really really really awful to get a teacher like that. |
So True Valience... but you are also wrong.... Hmmm... A paradox? What you say is true about a teacher with 5 years experience (they suck if they havent a clue); but what I say is true about a teacher with one year experience. With a Teacher with more than 5 years experience the classroom management becomes seamless and effortless, so the students do not notice it, they just feel it (none the less it is still #1 on my list). With a Teacher just starting out, they most likely are struggling with Classroom management and it is so important for them to master it ASAP; (Im sure we have all had teachers with 10 years experience that never mastered the learned skill of Classroom management)
When I left teaching I had to turn in lesson plans that each and every lesson plan had to be linked to Six Trait Writing Skills and/or to Mathamatics... I am not skilled at Writing nor Mathmatics, but I did my best and you are right Valience "It Sucked" It Sucked for me, It sucked for my Students. I found myself not teaching what I knew how to teach and what I loved to teach. Folks who care always ask me and this is why I quit....
Teachers, go to an interview, find the perfect school, find the perfect boss, and then the Boss leaves; A new Boss comes in and has totally different Vision, Changes everything.... Older Teachers are use to it, Younger Teachers can be crushed by it.....
Statement: Middle Management turnover sucks.....Sometimes
Entry Edited 2 times - Edited on Mar 31, 2008 - 9:17 pm
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