WEEK FIFTHEEN

Teaching and learning is a lifelong process. A teacher should always be a student. Good teachers are not born but they are made. All nonnative teachers feel the same way as us so; think right now when we enter the teaching profession. We will become confident by and by. I advise you to love our profession and the students you’ll have.

This week we didn’t have Internet connection in the classroom, so our teacher started a topic that we as teachers need to think about really deeply because maybe we are not made to be teachers.

Carl Rogers, an American psychologist suggested there are three core teacher characteristics to help create an effective learning environment.

Respect: Being positive and non-judgmental in regards to another person

Empathy: Being able to see things from another person’s point of view

Authenticity: Being yourself without egoistic barriers or hiding behind a job title

These three qualities a far more likely to induce a more positive learning environment, where students are more inclined to take risks and take responsibility for their own learning. Communication between student and teacher becomes more open and honest and therefore a stronger bond emerges, based on mutual respect.

Our teacher suggested us to do in a class the following:

1. Taking attendance everyday
2. Calling parents when students are absent
3. Check homework everyday
4. Use stamps for homework and classwork in order to facilitate the process of checking them.
5. Give students opportunities for Oral lessons
6. Be Consistent and Set up rules in the class
7. Make frequent evaluation of homework, classwork, group work, class-activity, etc.

In conclusion being a teacher is not only teaching knowledge, it is also to teach values and responsibilities to have in the future good professional that are going to help this society.

I want to be a teacher as high as the character of that this movie