Monday, August 28, 2006

How to be a good teacher?-Listening to new teachers

To be a good teacher is a hard task!
I felt this point deeply this afternoon.
It is a meeting for new teacher to display their skills of teaching for the coming classes for students.
Two guys gave lessons in the classroom in front we teachers, they gave a nice speech, but there still are some points waiting to be improved.
There are also some reasearches on the net in countries outside China, such as the educator and philosopher Parker Palmer, he said words below:
"Good teaching isn't about technique. I've asked students around the country to describe their good teachers to me. Some of them describe people who lecture all the time, some of them describe people who do little other than facilitate group process, and others describe everything in between. But all of them describe people who have some sort of connective capacity, who connect themselves to their students, their students to each other, and everyone to the subject being studied. (1999, p. 27)".
Some people also gave some rules for people to be a good teacher, they listed as below:
• have a sense of purpose;
• have expectations of success for all students;
• tolerate ambiguity;
• demonstrate a willingness to adapt and change to meet student needs;
• are comfortable with not knowing;
• reflect on their work;
• learn from a variety of models;
• enjoy their work and their students.
I think they all are right, it is difficult to judge who are right or wrong, just we have our own opinions.
In my opinion, to be a good teacher should obey below points:
1 Full of knowledge of relative subjects, not only the book, but also lots of the same kind of book;
2 Be careful: here i want to express the word of Yanjin in Chinese,each word you say must have a hard root and backledge, you should be responsible for you words in front of students;
3 Make research: if you do not do research, you do not know the latest results of the field, you cannot give those students a high level, the knowledge is old, though the principle is still acurate, but you should update yourself!
In a word, I am suit for the class of my department, I want a direction of research of my own!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a silent corner on the world.