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Teaching
Tips 1 - Be prepared. Have a well-thoughout plan
in place and know what procedures you will use to implement
that plan. Will you lecture? Will you have handouts? Will their
be class interaction? To what extent will the students be involved?
Teaching
Tips 2 - Teach creatively! You don't want your students
to be bored to death. Think of ways to make it fun for students
to learn. You can use humor, props, guest speakers, field trips,
music, pets, etc. The sky is the limit.
Teaching
Tips 3 - Cut off bad behavior from a student IMMEDIATELY!
If allowed to persist, it will not only be disruptive for the
whole class but the perpetrator will provoke others. Take swift
and immediate action by following though with consequences for
their actions.
Teaching
Tips 4 - Treat your students with respect. Do not lead military
style. Show your students that you care for them first and foremost.
Compliment their achievements and let them down softly when
they've made a mistake. Think about how you want to be treated
when you learn from someone. That is how you should treat them.
Teaching
Tips 5 - Be the expert. That's why you're the teacher. Know
the answers to their questions. If you don't know them, you
should not be teaching! At the very least; if you find yourself
ill-prepared for a certain class, do everything you have to
do to catch up to where you should be as fast as possible. Not
only do you not want to be "blind, leading the blind"
but you're very job could be at stake if word gets out that
you don't know what you're doing.
Teaching
6- Immediately earn the students names. Study their faces,
their style (clothing, hair, posture, attitude, etc.) and visualize
the information relating to their style through association.
For example; if the girl in the front row with the black hair
and the white make-up makes her look like like something out
of The Living Dead and her name is Diane, associate the word
"die" (because she does look dead right?), with the
name "die ann".
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7- Challenge your students to really "learn" the
material, not just "memorize" it. The key to learning
is to internalize it so that the information is useable later
in life. This is where your skill as a teacher comes in handy.
If they simply forget what they've memorized after the test,
have they really learned anything? Was it a big waste of time?
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8 - Try to make the information relevant to your students.
If you are teaching history, teach your students the lessons
that were learned in the past and how this affects the present.
If you are teaching math, find an everyday practical application
for what you are teaching to show your students why they should
learn this.
Teaching
9 - As a teacher you also have to have a good relationship
with the parents of you students. Make sure to keep them in
the loop of what is going on in the classroom. This will help
them to help their children with homework and projects at home.
Keep an open line of communication with them.
Teaching
10 - If you are a new teacher, find a mentor teacher. If
your school does not have a program of pairing established teachers
with new ones, either make the connection yourself, or suggest
it to your school. This helps both teachers have good school
years. The established teacher will have a lot of lessons that
have worked in the past, and the newer teacher will have a fresh
outlook on things.
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