Effective Teaching P1

Like in the text, it says there seven perspectives or way to master effective teaching because in a class room, many things happen at the same time (rapid-fire succession - Sumara).  The seven points are as followed:

1. Teaching Involves Social and Ethical Matter
-  there has to be fairness in the classroom, and the teacher has to make all their decisions with using that in mind.  I think that it's be very hard, because of the diversity in classrooms.  You can have students that are quick learners, or students that have immigrated and are not quite where they should be in their classes, or even having students that learn better with the constructivist approach to teacher.  Having to plan your lessons around such elements can be very tricky, hence why a teacher has to be creative on how they teach a class.

2.Teaching Involves a Diverse Mosaic of Students
-I had touched base on this on the above point.

3. Effective Teacher
- an effective teacher is one that has definitely stood out in your memory.  In the text is says that a survey was done with students at the ages of 13-17 (NASSP, 1997) , and it was found that the top three characteristics of being the most important found in a teacher.  They are: 1) Humour.  2) Make class interesting.  3) In-depth knowledge of the subject.  I totally agree with this, because when I think of some of the effective teachers in my past, at least one of these characteristics go along with them.

4.Professional Knowledge and Skills:
- our instructor said there are three aspects to this: 1) Motivate the students. 2) Communication. 3) Work with diverse students.  I think that this can also be characterized under an "effective teacher" too, because I think with being an effecting teacher your need to be able to motivate your students to want to learn what they are doing, and take interests.  This can help with learning some responsibility because they are taking the reigns of the education.  They may want to go the extra distance in their classes.  Also, I think communication is a key element because if you cannot communicate clearly, you can lose your students.  Plus, if a student is struggling with the class or something in their life, you can be a bit sympathetic and maybe try to help them.  To be able to work with diverse students would be tough, but if they can master it, it will make the everyone's life easier.  It would be a plus to both side and everyone can take something from class.