I've posted many qualities of an effective teacher on the right hand side of our blog....take a look at the list, thinking about the value of each characteristic. After you've reviewed the list carefully, please post your response to the following question.....
Congratulations! You've just landed the teaching position of your dreams. You begin packing your things to fly to the new school district and realize, due to the increased costs of gasoline, you can bring with you only three suitcases. Each suitcase can hold only ONE quality of an effective teacher...which three would you take with you and why?
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I would choose sacrifical because dedication to the job and making sacrifices for the student is a very important attribute. I would also choose fairness because equality will allow each student to benefit and it also gives a sense of respect to the children (which could also allow you to gain respect back from the students). Finally, I think they should encourage interest in subject. This obviously helps the students want to learn and help show the students that education is important and very useful for their everyday activities as well as their future.
ReplyDeleteIf I could only bring three of the qualities of an effective teacher i would bring Passion, Patience, and the ability to Understand the individual needs of every student that walks into my class.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I believe that if you are a teacher you must be passionate about what you are teaching. If you are not students can sense that and you lose most if not all of your credibility. Also if you are not passionate about your field then you will dread going to work everyday.
Then I would include patience because, if you think every student will do something right the first time you are wrong, you must have the patience to let the student try and learn from their mistakes.
Finally I would include the ability to understand the needs of every student that walks into my class. With the growing number of IEP's and LD children, I must be able to adjust and learn to teach to their strengths.
I would choose inspirational, sacrificial, and able to connect with the students. If I am inspirational, I believe that this will help the student go farther than with just the things that I teach them. By being sacrificial, I hope to always put my students first and their needs and education before anything else. Finally, by being able to connect with the students I hope I will be able to find out the best way for them to learn and what I can do to push them to their full potential.
ReplyDeleteI think both justin and khrystyne are right about the "ability to understand the students or individual". If I had choice, that would be my #4 suitcase. :)
ReplyDeleteI would chose compassion, patience, and flexibility. Being compassion when kids have trouble understanding the concept, being patient when teaching them when they are trying to learn and also flexible by being open minded to other effective ways of teaching.
ReplyDeletei agree with justin sharpe because our qualities are a lot alike. Being interested in the students and trying to learn from their mistakes is important.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Justin on patience because every child will be at a different pace and you must be prepared to have the patience for every child not just the gifted ones. I also agree with Courtney on being sacrificial because the best teachers I have had have always been the ones that have been willing to drop whatever they're doing just to help me.
ReplyDeleteTo me, the 3 best qualities a teacher can have are to be passionate about your subject, good communicator, and a role model. The teacher should care about the material they are teaching to be able to better explain it if needed(being enthusiastic). Also communication is a great skill for a teacher because you want your students to understand the lesson, and be able to use it outside of the classroom. The last thing is for a teacher to be a good role model because you not only want to help your students learn but also make an impact on their lives(maybe someday you will be on a sticky note lol).
ReplyDeleteA couple of my other classmates mentioned being able to connect with the students...I think this is a very important quality for a teacher to achieve. It is important because the learning process will increase and it will be a better all around atmosphere in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI think the 3 most important qualities of an effective teacher are a teacher should learn as much as they teach, good communication, and energenic. A teacher can learn from a student when they teach on a certain subject. The teacher can look at the subject in a different light. A teacher should have good communication with the students. This can help a student understand what they are being taught and prevent any tension between the student and the teacher. Lastly, when a teacher is energenic, the student will most likely do well. If the teacher is not energenic, the lesson will be boring and the student would lose focus.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kacey that compassion is an important quality for an effective teacher. Kids need it when the do not understand what the concept is. It can take more than one explanation for the student to understand.
ReplyDeleteI would choose being inspiring, loving my job and my students, and being organized. There is nothing for frustrating than having a teacher who does not like thier jor or thier students and is unorganized. Also, not loving your job makes it near to impossible to be inspiring. If I do not love what I do, then how am I going to get my students to want to remember the things I am teaching after the test? It just can't happen. And, with all the paperwork a teacher has to deal with, being organized is key. An organized desk leads to an organized life.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Jessica about being a role model. You are in those children's lives every day and if you are a good person, then it will naturally rub off on them!
ReplyDeleteI would have to go with, able to connect with students, patient and listens to students and other teachers. Being able to connect with students is so important. WIthout a connection, you will lose their interest,they will be bored and you will never know if you are getting through to them or not. Patience is key with any students of any age. Dealing with a large group of any kind (even adults) on a daily basis would take such patience that someone without that quality could not happily do the job. Listening to students and teachers is not only going to help you, but your students. Your students will appreciate a teacher or adult that actually listens to them and you can always use the feedback. Listening to other teachers will especially help beginning teachers with ideas and procedures. Teachers should brainstorm with one another throughout their entire careers. Why not share good ideas?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Jaclyn about having to love your job or it shows. A teacher who does not love his/her job would lack a number of these other important qualities and it would certainly show in their work and would come across to the students as well.
ReplyDeleteBeing able to inspire, interactive, and able to learn as much as they teach are my top good qualities for a teacher. My 5th grade was my 'inspiration' and I want to walk along her footsteps and become a great teacher as well. She always was hands-on with every learning lesson and this caused the students to want more knowledge. She also listened to her students and let us teach her something new.
ReplyDeleteAmy wrote: Listening to students and teachers is not only going to help you, but your students. Your students will appreciate a teacher or adult that actually listens to them and you can always use the feedback. Listening to other teachers will especially help beginning teachers with ideas and procedures.
ReplyDeleteI believe that listening can and will go far. I know that I appreciated when my high school teachers talked to me as a young adult, not just a student who had to come to class. When I become a elementary teacher, I know that I will need assistance and advice from other teachers; Communication will be the key.
Organized, energetic and compassionate are all qualties that I would be my three suitcases. Oraganized, I think is the most important because you have to keep track of the assignments students turn in, there is nothing worse then when a teacher loses your paper. Since i want to teach elementary I believe that being energetic is really importatnt. The kids are young and energetic, if your not they are going to tire you out. The last thing, compassionate is important to me because if you dont like what your doing its going to show.
ReplyDeletei agree with amy when she mentioned being patient is helpful when teaching any age group. I think its a key factor for any teacher because if you lose your cool the students will build off that and act out.
ReplyDeleteI think my three would be able to connect with students, inspiring and passionate. I think it's very important to be able to connect with students, because if they can't relate to/connect with you at all they won't try to care about what you're teaching them. Inspiring goes hand in hand with passionate, I think. If you are passionate about your job, about your subject, about making these kid's lives better.. then hopefully you can inspire them to be the very best people that they can be all the time.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with margaret m. about the willing to learn as much as they teach quality. Techniques are always going to be changing, and in some sujects.. i'm going into Bio/Chem for example.. things are ALWAYS changing. You have to be willing to take the time to keep up with what's going on in the world.
ReplyDeleteI would bring funny(humor), being able to connect with the students and understanding individual needs. I think it's important to bring humor into the classroom because it keeps things from becoming boring. Humor helps connect with the students and this is important in teaching. Understading individual needs is important because each person learns differently.
ReplyDeleteI agree with amy about being patient and listening to students and teachers. The students need to feel that they can express themselves. Listening to the teachers might teach you something.
ReplyDeleteone of my three things i would choose is connecting with the children. If you dont have that connection it will be hard for them to learn and for you to teach them and get what you need done. My second one is good communication if you can not communicate with your students how will they communicate back with you it will help them out! the third would probably inspiring have your kids look up to you inspire them to be all they can be! it will give them confidence!
ReplyDeleteA couple others have mentioned patience if i could have another suitcase to add this is what i would most likely to add! khrstyne the students can be all at different passes and we need to be patient. Plus i want to be a special education teacher!
ReplyDeleteI believe that being that I would take organized,compassionate, and caring for the students. I believe that if you are organized you can make good lesson plans; if you are compassionate and acares about the students that you will earn respect from those students.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kimberly that if I had another suitcase that I would also add energetic because I belive if you have the energetic of the subject that students will learn better about that subject.
ReplyDeleteThe three things I would bring are inspiring, patient and interactive. I bring inspiring because students need to be inspired to learn and a lot of times it is the teacher who inspires them. I would bring patient because all students have different learning levels and their own unique way of learning and I would need to be patient to be able to figure out what works best for each student. I would bring interactive because I always think it is easier to learn in interactive classes and since I want to teach special ed elementry I think it would be easier for my students to learn if the class was interactive.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Heather Cullen about the good communication and how if you can't communicate with the students they will not be able to communicate back.
ReplyDeletei would really want to relate to the students let them know i understand them and not let them be afraid to talk to me. I also think i would need patience to deal with certain stressful situations calmly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelsey because we have very similar views on our suitcases. If I had a #4 suitcase it would be to Inspire the children especially in a Physical Education class that is huge.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all you have to put yourself in the perspective of the student you are teaching. To be an effective teacher you must be able to teach the material....well, effectively! Basically, in other words, if you couldn't learn the material yourself, how are you going to teach it. I think it also important not to set your students up for failure, if a student fails, depending on the situation, you fail, the student didn't learn the material, therefore, you didn't teach them. Notice I said depends on the sitiuation, we all know for every 1 classroom, there is 1 bad apple, who just skates by, but that is besides the point. The point is placing or putting a student first is very important. In Rhetrospect, back to the bad apple, here is where I would consider ENERGETIC comes into play. Again you have to remember you were once a student, and as I'm sure all of you know, the way you keep the classrooms attention is and can be complicating it takes a certain level of charisma to keep anyones interest. One thing I would like to add as if i hadn't said enough as it is, I think CONFIDENCE has a huge role in teaching, because if you think about it there is a bigger picture to teaching than just teaching. Anybody can be a teacher, but not everybody can be an effective teacher.
ReplyDeleteI feel it takes a lot of different aspects to be an effective teacher, but what stands out the most to me would be for one thing being able to connect with your students. If your trying to effectively get a point across to your students you want to have that connection they dont have with their friends or their parents that is special in a way. The next big thing that stands out to me would be inspiring, in my opinion this one stands out the most to me personally because when i was in HS i had a drumline instructor/teacher that really put it into perspective for me and helped me choose my career. If it wasnt for him i most likely wouldnt be going to school to be a teacher and i thank him for that. Finally, what i think makes an effective teacher is patience because some of the students you have may not learn at the pace that you want them to let alone like everyone else. If you're unpatient about their individual needs it will make things alot more stressful for the student as well as yourself, not everyday is going to be "cookies and creme."
ReplyDeleteGreat posts!
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