3637. Are Our Students Really Learning with Our Actual Way of Teaching?

 I’m back with you again, my fellow readers. 

I wanted to tell you something that may be of any interest to you, both if you are prospective or novice teachers, or otherwise experienced ones. 

I’ve been thinking lately that, for a teacher, practice and experience are so paramount important. And as well another key point to bear in mind when teaching in the classroom or remotely teaching is that we should have our students in mind when lesson planning. 

Something you can do before the actual lesson planning is just to think on your specific and real students. 

On a parallel way you may know that when our students have to write an essay, well, you know, they should have a reader in mind. 

Equally when the teacher is about to plan a lesson – and every lesson ought to be planned – he or she may think, Well, let’s see how my students are in class and how last lesson worked actually. 

And I invite you to write a few points before the actual planning, considering their real needs, how they worked on last lesson, some problems, how they can actually progress on their learning process, some – few – teaching aims, and things that kind. For a few minutes. 

In that way we teachers will obtain realistic lesson planning pieces, believe me. 

And finally, and we may have a few students in class or large groups, the teacher I think should be focused on them and how they interact in class with you their teacher and with their classmates. 

Thus the teacher will for sure note their troubles as well as their strong points. 

The teacher is thus committed to their learners in class: a lesson is not a chance for the teacher to show off, yet otherwise he or she is there to make their learners really learn and ultimately for them to be happy with a profound happiness. With just your committed teaching in class you can cooperate to make them that happy. Have a nice day.

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