9/20 The planning of a successful
teaching career
Today,
it's been our honour to have two experienced teachers come and share their
experiences with us.
The
first teacher focused more about the details of practical teaching, while the
second teacher focused more about the importance of attitude when
teaching.
The
precious concepts I conceived from the lectures:
-Define
your Belief in Teaching and Act upon it!
-Love
what you Choose, and Choose what you Love!
-Delight
yourself in your teaching: be jubilant at the smallest progress of your
students and beam at the biggest efforts you've put in your teaching
plans...knowing all this will make a better person out of you and all your
students!
-Be
familiar with the methods to teaching, for only when you know the highest
standards of it will you reach near the ideal state of teaching.
-When
taking an essay test upon teaching, remember to first list out the method and
then the practical examples.
-When
you are taking an internship, be active and eagerly absorb the experiences from
the experienced teachers... these experiences will save you years of searching
and stumbling!
-When
you are taking an internship you should take photos to keep a record of your
process of learning.
-When
you are taking an internship, you should see it as a formal and professional
duty, do your best in everything, give yourself the highest standard and people
will respect you and help you.
-When
you are teaching, you must do a really thorough job of preparing for the
lessons, and when you are on stage you must answer the students' questions with
sincerity...do not lie about what you do not know... you can be candid about
not knowing and come back to the question next time when you have found the
answer.
-When
teaching, it is important you discuss with your colleges for ideas, and that
you all share the handouts and other teaching resources together.
-When
teaching, you can handout feedback sheets to see if there's anything you can
improve on.
-Being
considerate to your students, your student's parents, and your colleges is a
good thing, but when you don't hold on to your principles... the good becomes
sour.
-Our "Attitude"
is the key to making our life and our teaching 100% effective, meaningful, and
fulfilling.
-When you
face your students, you should have the attitude of the following saying:
"I am not a teacher, but a fellow teacher of whom you asked the way."
Because one day they may all become a president, a doctor, a mayor, a lawyer, a
reporter, a taxi driver, a professional farmer and all those important people
who will drive our future forward... so we must respect them and keep them on
track when they are still students.
-Chicken
Soup for the Teacher's Soul: "Teaching is the choicest of professions,
because everybody who is anybody was taught how to be a somebody by a
teacher."
-You
have to innovate and work hard... and your teaching will keep up with the
trends of time... if you add to the innovation and hard work with “passion”
then you will be ahead of the trends of time.
A
small suggestion to both of the teachers:
The
first teacher shared her experience in a rather firm tone- this has its pro and
con; the good thing about it is that it'll push the teachers-to-be to be
punctual and responsible when in internship and in formal teaching. The bad
thing about a tone being to firm is that it might be mistaken as arrogance,
people will feel they are not respected if they sense an air of arrogance...
and in the end, they may have a hard time absorbing your ideas, as brilliant as
they may be. However, she still had her very practical experiences expressed in a
clear way and fluent way.
The
second teacher smiled a lot, and added some fun elements to her presentation. One can tell that the flow of the presentation has not been practiced
enough beforehand, making it not so fluent, and also making the presenter
nervous... we can tell she was nervous for she scratched her hair and chin
often. Therefore it may be suggested that she can spend some time reviewing the
flow of her presentation beforehand. However, she still did
express authentic experience upon the attitude towards teaching.
