What Makes A Good Teacher韓 文 娟

1、What Makes A Good Teacher?-Impressions of Being the best teacherI have been teaching for12 years. During that time, I have worked in Luocheng No1 Middle School. My youngest students are the students in Grade 1 of this school, my oldest students are 15 years old and they will graduate from our school

2、, I like to teach them to learn how to read. I've taught honors students in Class 8, and some happy one in Class 11.The experience of my life has enriched my teaching life, but left me without a luxury some of my enjoy-the sense, as I walk into a new class, for a new term, that I know what my st

3、udents will need, and how best to share it with them. This is not to say that I've been tossed blind into the classroom. In most cases, I've had enough prep time to gather what seem like appropriate materials, and find out something about the students I'll be working with. What I have no

4、t had is the critical mass of sameness that accrues to the teacher who stays in the same setting, at the same level, for many years in a row. I cannot assume that what worked last semester will work this time.As a result of my ever-changing context, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the cr

5、aft and practice of teaching, as separate from course content, age of students, size of class, or institutional setting. Everywhere I go, I meet exemplary teachers, and I've been interested in figuring out what makes them so good. What I've discovered is the inherent sameness of good teacher

6、s, regardless of the substantial differences between them in terms of style, personality, goals, and pattern of interaction with students. I would go so far as to say that good teachers, in all settings and at all levels, have more in common with each other than any of them may have with their class

7、mates in comparable positions. I know we are all working hard , in order to understand the bold statement above, try the following exercise. Sit back, close your eyes, and bring to mind the three best teachers you ever had. Try to remember what they were like-how they looked, talked and acted, what

8、their classrooms were like, how they made you feel as their student. When you're satisfied that you've gotten a good picture of who these people were, open your eyes, and consider the words of educator and philosopher Parker Palmer:I think that good teaching isn't about technique. I'

9、ve asked students around the class 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. I know there will be a long way to go, an