Good Teachers Become Better Leaders
The teacher to student relationship is very important for children. Children spend approximately 5 to 7 hours a day with a teacher for almost 10 months.
We ask ourselves what is considered a good teacher. All of us have gone through schooling, and if fortunate had a favorite teacher. A positive relationship between the student and the teacher is difficult to establish, but can be found for both individuals at either end. The qualities for a positive relationship can vary to set a learning experience approachable and inviting the students to learn.
A teacher and student who have the qualities of good communications, respect in a classroom, and show interest in teaching from the point of view of the teacher and learning from a student will establish a positive relationship in the classroom. I will be focusing on the relationship between the student and teacher, involving a setting in the primary grades, which I have found second grade to be extremely important for the student to gain a positive attitude for their future education.
Children have different strategies for learning and achieving their goals. A few students in a classroom will grasp and learn quickly, but at the same time there will be those who have to be repeatedly taught using different techniques for the student to be able to understand the lesson. On the other hand, there are those students who fool around and use school as entertainment. Teaching then becomes difficult, especially if there is no proper communication. Yet, teachers, creating a positive relationship with their students, will not necessarily control of all the disruptive students. The book, Responsible Classroom Discipline written by Vernon F. Jones and Louise Jones discuss how to create a learning environment approachable for children in the elementary schools. According to the Jones, “Student disruptions will occur frequently in classes that are poorly organized and managed where students are not provided with appropriate and...
Education cannot be the sole aim of life for its only one of many passages through which an individual comes in terms with the world and reaches his objectives.
With age especially spent at a public/private school, I found satisfaction and interest in various activities in which I took part. Experiments fascinated me and hence I was never reluctant to try new endeavors. What initiated my response to in new fields were actually my fleeting moods and lack of concentration that many people consider as negative qualities. My diverse interests not only proved its importance but also made me realize its downfalls and shortcomings. While I was in school I not only proved my ability as a sportsman but also as a tough competitor in academic. Unlike many, I had the fortune of getting some teaching experience even before my licensure examinations that resulted in widening my field of vision.
Although I loved playing a wide variety of sports , I consider my experience as a teacher to be of utmost importance. This is because I chose academics over sports and hence any interest that is conducive to an increment in academic potential and mental capacity is far more essential. I do not have any intention of pursuing a profession as a teacher, but the experience that I have received has affected me in a way that changed the pattern of my thought and behavior which touched some lives, specially my parents.
While teaching, I found that my students possess different amounts of intelligence and thus their answers were diverse, ranging from abstract and concrete….from what they do not know to something very useful…meaning learning.
Life is a gift and it offers us a privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”Anthony Robbins
--oOo— The author is T-III at Matamo Elementary School, Arayat East District