1. Command respect
A good teacher is a person who respects children and whose students, in turn, respect him or her. A person who knows how to make a child feel special. A person who is creative enough to open whole worlds to young minds. The confluence of respect and responsibility navigates the journey to ethical fitness.
2. The Key factor is the "C" word
The key factor that makes students like school, study hard, achieve and stay in school, is the "C" word, but its not "curriculum". The word is "caring". CARE deeply about each student and about that student's accomplishment and growth. It begins with the teacher recognizing the student as an individual who brings particular experiences, interests, enthusiasm, and fears to the classroom. The teacher taking time to acknowledge a student's life outside the classroom, enquiring about the family's welfare or the student's participation in an extra curriculum activity. To teach people enough to school them, we must meet their deep human need to feel cared about.
3. Know, Enthuse and Motivate
Know the subject, convey it with excellence, enthuse the student with the relevance of the subject-matter and motivate them to greater heights.
Teacher competence has aroused much concerns from teacher educators, education professionals and the public. Teacher competence could be classified into two main categories: interpersonal skills and classroom procedures. Interpersonal skills refers to teacher's proficiency in creating a comfortable social atmosphere, and demonstrating warmth and friendliness towards their students. And classroom procedures refers to the actual classroom practices which are teaching methods and techniques.
4. Collaboration
To achieve holistic development of the student, there must be collaboration between the three primary role players in the education of the child; the teacher, co-teachers and parents.
When parents asks, "Does my child have a good teacher?" knowing what we do today about the importance of the home in children's achievement, I ask, 'Does your child have a good parent?" We don't have to be perfect to be good, but we do have to be a team and we do need to make an effort to do our job together.
"A student's success in school starts in the heads and hearts of his or her parents and teachers. The way we see them and the way we make them see themselves is what they will become".
A good teacher is a person who respects children and whose students, in turn, respect him or her. A person who knows how to make a child feel special. A person who is creative enough to open whole worlds to young minds. The confluence of respect and responsibility navigates the journey to ethical fitness.
2. The Key factor is the "C" word
The key factor that makes students like school, study hard, achieve and stay in school, is the "C" word, but its not "curriculum". The word is "caring". CARE deeply about each student and about that student's accomplishment and growth. It begins with the teacher recognizing the student as an individual who brings particular experiences, interests, enthusiasm, and fears to the classroom. The teacher taking time to acknowledge a student's life outside the classroom, enquiring about the family's welfare or the student's participation in an extra curriculum activity. To teach people enough to school them, we must meet their deep human need to feel cared about.
3. Know, Enthuse and Motivate
Know the subject, convey it with excellence, enthuse the student with the relevance of the subject-matter and motivate them to greater heights.
Teacher competence has aroused much concerns from teacher educators, education professionals and the public. Teacher competence could be classified into two main categories: interpersonal skills and classroom procedures. Interpersonal skills refers to teacher's proficiency in creating a comfortable social atmosphere, and demonstrating warmth and friendliness towards their students. And classroom procedures refers to the actual classroom practices which are teaching methods and techniques.
4. Collaboration
To achieve holistic development of the student, there must be collaboration between the three primary role players in the education of the child; the teacher, co-teachers and parents.
When parents asks, "Does my child have a good teacher?" knowing what we do today about the importance of the home in children's achievement, I ask, 'Does your child have a good parent?" We don't have to be perfect to be good, but we do have to be a team and we do need to make an effort to do our job together.
"A student's success in school starts in the heads and hearts of his or her parents and teachers. The way we see them and the way we make them see themselves is what they will become".
Linda Holt
1995 Hawaii teacher of the Year
1995 Hawaii teacher of the Year
5. Information for Transformation through Character Education
Today, the vast majority of Americans share a respect for fundamental traits so character: honesty, compassion, justice, courage and perseverance. Yet, in today's world, all children face great uncertainties in a complex and sometimes troubled society. Therefore our challenge is to provide youth with the self-esteem, stamina, and support they need to survive, to be successful, and to develop into strong, competent, caring and responsible citizens.
Character education presents life with context, inviting students to listen, share, explore and reflect. Cultivating knowledge for purposeful living, students learn through literature, art, humanities and throughout the existing school curriculum the benefits and consequences of behaviour. They learn the power of choice. They learn to appreciate the qualities of being human and to share their appreciation at home, in school, and in the community.
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