As a future teacher there are many things the go through my mind about what it will take to be a teacher and to get through to kids to make a difference in their lives. So I took a chance and google "how to be a good teacher" while many websites came up, including wikiHow, I sorted through all of them and came to this little gem...
http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/06/what-makes-a-good-teacher/
This article comes from Time magazine and discusses a new documentary coming out called "TEACH" which documents teachers in Chicago and other inner cities and what it takes for them to be a good teacher. Davis Guggenheim directed this documentary along with Waiting For Superman, which we began watching in class, along with An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore documentary about the climate change. With that being said, you know it is going to be a good one based on the popularity of his two other documentaries. Not only is this documentary meant to open your eyes, it is also a call to action and the realization of that in the next decade we are going to need 2 million teachers, hopefully many that succeed as well as those in TEACH. I know that I will be watching this very soon, it premiered on CBS in September, and I believe that those of us continuing on to be teachers should do the same thing.
I don't think that an acronym or any list can detail all the ways to be a good teacher. It could be good pointers, but at the end of the day it depends on the various situations to determine what a good teacher is
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this! Very interesting. I will think about this in the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is really hard to list ways to be a good teacher. I think a lot of being a good teacher has to do with individualized situations. I also think that it depends on the type of classroom and school you are placed in. Being a good teacher is a very broad term, there are many different aspects of teaching and to be a good teacher in all of them is very hard and time consuming, I do not believe that if you follow a certain list you will be able to achieve being a "good teacher".
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