From this this blog “Prepare them
for the Path” I totally agree with Teri Engelbrecht about the statement, "A good teacher prepares the
student for the learning, not the learning for the student." We as
teachers have to make learning fun and creative to capture the students’
attention. We have to teach the students that they can do anything that they
want to do as long as the put their minds to it. We can’t give them all the
answers and expect that they have learned the lesson. They have to understand that
everything in life does not come simple and free, however, by learning that can
equip them to knowledge for the future.
This blog also reminds me as of an
article that I read in EDU 346, in that article it states that there’s no such
thing a good teacher but a teacher can have good teaching skills. That’s the
same thing Engelbrechtis stating in her blog. Student need teachers who have
sensitivity to all the ways in which life experiences can be re- expressed by
children. A good teacher needs to bring a fine blend of strength and delicacy
to her job. She needs to be a person who is secure within herself that she can
function with principles rather than prescriptions, that she exert authority
without requiring submission, that she can work experimentally but not at
random, that she can admit mistakes without feeling humiliated. This blog
informed me on more ways to develop good teaching strategies.
My last
and favorite quote from her article is that ”I think a good teacher helps
students more by helping them experience what they will really experience on
their path through life - problem-solving, figuring it out, failing, trying
again, failing some more, and trying some more.”
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