Read Chapter 7: The Simple, Hard Truth About Teaching.
1. At the beginning of the chapter, there are 27 bullet-points that describe what research tells us about education, teachers, and students. Pick 3 bullet-points and discuss. Describe why these 3 statements stand out to you as part of your educational philosophy and how they have impacted your educational experience. Be sure to discuss each bullet-point in a paragraph (3 paragraphs total).
2. At the end of pg. 91, Tomlinson says, "If we allow ourselves to fall in love with what we do, we will be reborn countless times, almost always in a form stronger and more fully human than the one that preceded it. Thus it may be that to teach more responsively, more effectively, we ultimately need to accept two challenges. First, we need to cultivate passion for what we do. Second, we need to remove our protective armor and allow our students to shape us, reflecting on and learning from what we see." Respond to this statement in 2 paragraphs. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Why?
Teacher’s enthusiasm
1.When a teacher shows great excitement or enthusiasm for teacher a lesson the student become anxious to learn and their teacher positive attitude is imprinted on the student having a great deal of excitement for teaching usually means that students will be successful.
2. having a classroom routine keeps the students on task and allows them to focus on the lesson at hand a changes to routine, in our classroom, can mean the difference between a good productive day that is stress free, or a few mind having of unsettled or off task behavior.
3 .In our classroom we teach a lesson on name the coin. We reteach concept for each coin unit there can identify each coin.
Posted by: Mary Brown | May 06, 2009 at 04:50 PM
4. It truly because we need to love what we do. And except our students for who they are and for their unique abilities .Teachers also need to learn from their students, as well as teach their student, on a daily basis.
Posted by: Mary Brown | May 08, 2009 at 08:43 AM