Best Teaching Strategies

Teaching may sound like an easy task, but it is a daunting job. In this article, an experienced teacher shares her insight on how to excel at teaching

Best Teaching Strategies
Best Teaching Strategies
Teaching may sound like an easy task but it is as daunting as any job. Having taught for a good seven years at universities, high schools and special ed schools, I have tried a bit of everything of how it is to be a teacher.
There are different strokes for different folks. That is true. For the many students and their levels that I have taught, I found special kids to be the most challenging of all. However, each student is different. There are even talented kids who could be more difficult. Coming from different backgrounds, and culture, a child’s personality is formed into something unique and complex. It is a great challenge for the teachers then to uncover the child’s strengths provided by these circumstances.
So, how do we become the best teacher there is? No, this is not a popularity contest. This is about performing on the job and giving justice to your profession. As we struggle to trudge along that path, we find ourselves building guide posts so that the next time we stumble into a crossroad so similar, we know which road to take. By building these posts, we do not aim to be recognized, but simply to satisfy ourselves. Seeing our products – our students – excel and succeed or simply hand over a comment of thanks is more than enough satisfaction for us.
This is an article devoted to teachers like me – beginners and pros alike – who are on their way to self-discovery, to greatness and to understanding the real essence of being who we are today.
The following points would be guide posts I have stood in my seven years of teaching. These posts remind me to become the teacher I wished I had once upon a time.
Make your class rules and goals clear. Do this at the beginning of the semester. By pointing out which you expect them to do and not do, you run into less trouble of encountering these situations in the future. My class rules, however, are not so strict. These include a U-shape seating arrangement where I can see everyone, and a 'talk to me' policy once a week; I need to hear a student talk in the form of recitation or question. It is also a must that students talk to me in English since that is what I teach. Right before the major exams are conducted, I also ask students which lessons they are confident about. I tally the majority and set up free classes at the end of the week where anybody who feels they need to hear it one more time can attend. ...
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Author: Cherry Ozoa



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