3543. Toward Improving as a Better Teacher Day after Day

To be a teacher? It’s so great – it may be tough, though. But I retain that being a teacher is great. You have some students with you in the classroom, and firstly some families you have to attend to, properly. All this is pretty human and humane. 

That teacher eventually gets interested in his or her students’ progress and learning and becoming great citizens. 

I say with Aristotle that we teachers have to love our dear students with benevolence love, which as you know or may know is seeking what’s good for those students. 

That teacher does not confine to plan his or her lessons, yet that person tries hard to think of each student and his or her progress, as much as possible, or at least that teacher thinks, when planning the lessons, what those learners do need most, at such and such circumstances. 

Even Carlos Cardona in his Ética del quehacer educativo states that there should be certain friendship between the teacher and the students. These latter ones permit to be educated themselves by the person who really loves them. 

And friendship is mutual, and prudent: certain benevolence love between the teacher and the students, in both directions. 

I have seen it in real life, and it’s just great, and it’s a target we teachers should appraise whether we’re getting it. 

The way the teacher addresses his or her students or even when that person addresses a single student… that teacher is showing she has real love for her learners. And these ones tend to respect her. 

That teacher has gotten a moral authority. 

That teacher attends her classes to serve and help her students out, actually. 

Like I said, that is a target every teacher should seek to reach at his or her daily teaching in and out of the classroom. 

Something practical? I knew a teacher who could learn his students’ names quite soon early in the school year: he had good memory but also every student was important for him. Let’s practice this way. Memory is some “stuff” you may train day after day. 

Something else: when teaching in the classroom, that loving teacher is reckoning and appraising whether his students are understanding and following him. And he tries to improve his action in the classroom day after day, with his students in mind. Have a nice week.