3662. Some Hints about Teaching with Enthusiasm

 A teacher needs to have enthusiasm for his or her teaching. And they will show that enthusiasm when teaching, at least sometimes it will be shown. 

Now I can remember a teacher, some weeks ago, one who teaches English, and one day in class you could notice his eagerness when writing on the whiteboard and trying to explain something in English. 

I know some of you may have disruption and discipline problems in class, and you may be fighting against that problem, but what I mean is that a teacher oughtn’t to have lukewarmness and indifference, and feel kind of well you are there to fill out your lessons with a minimum effort, and you’ll be paid. 

You cannot be one with indifference toward your teaching and your students. And I know that most of you teachers are committed and try and do your best in class. 

Notice that most of times your students get motivated if you also are so. 

One should not teach with some paper notes which are old and getting yellowish because you’ve used them umpteen times and for so many years. A teacher should have enthusiasm in his veins. 

Thus he will be passing on the lure for learning to his dear students. And that teacher will try to rejuvenate all his teaching, and so at the beginning of each new school year, and over and over through the passing days. And he will try and learn from what experts say about that teaching and the school subject. So he’ll read books about those issues. 

Therefore let’s try much to be like I’ve depicted here today: our students will feel better and grateful, more likely than not. Have a nice day. 

Well, something else: you an experienced teacher may not feel that enthusiasm, yet you will find ways of fleeing from that lukewarmness or coldness when teaching. Now also I can remember when I was a child and was starting a new school year, I got delighted when purchasing that new year’s textbooks, and in some way I was longing for reading and studying those books. A teacher as well must have interest in his students’ learning.

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