The TeacherAnd

Teaching

The age old question

Is teaching an art

or a science?

Objectives:

• Identify 10 Characteristics of teachers (Chapter 8, page 133-134-135).

• Identify 10 abilities needed by Agriculture teachers (Chapter 8, page 137-140)

• Describe 10 ways that a teacher can continue to grow professionally (Chapter 8, 141).

• List the individuals or groups to whom a teacher is responsible.

• List the two major responsibilities of a teacher.

• List three things teachers must do to be a success.• List the four stages of teacher development• Identify the positive traits of a good teacher.

Characteristics of Teachers

Phipps, Lloyd J. Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools. Danville, Illinois: The Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc.

Text Pages 134-135

Abilities needed by Agriculture Teachers

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Text page 138-140

Ways that a teacher can continue to grow professionally?

Formal Informal

The individuals or groups to whom a teacher is responsible

• A. Student

• B. Parents

• C. School (Administration & Board)

• D. Community

• E. Profession

• F. Self and family

• G. and…………….

Two major responsibilities of a teacher

• To Know what to teach. – Curriculum planning– Content selection– Selecting a text book– sequencing the content

• To know how to teach.– Methods and techniques– Understanding students and how to manage the

classroom.

Three things teachers must do to be a success

• Have positive expectations of the outcomes

• Good at classroom management

• Know how to design lessons that will help students learn – Note: page 42 of Wong’s Book (Expectations)– Harry Wong, To be an effective teacher: The

first Days of School, 1998

Who is Harry Wong?

Four stages of teacher development

• Fantasy

• Survival

• Mastery

• Impact

Fantasy

• All they need to do is relate, have fun with the students, be there for them, be their friends, Identify with them.

• Refer to the note on the handout about being a pal.

• They are not going to be like the teachers they had in school.

Survival

• Just make it through the day, learning is out the window, Put in your time and get on with my life, look to the weekend and look forward to a paycheck, busy work is in,

• they revert to the practices they condemned before they started teaching, they make excuses for why students don’t learn.

• Attitude is negative

Mastery• They have a command of the subject matter

and they are going to get it over to students.

• They know how to control the classrooom and they know what to do when something does not work-- Try something else. willing to learn

• Not interested in deadend activities.

• I can make a difference,

• Hopeful, Positive attitude

Impact

• Teachers have a positive impact on students, uses variety of methods and techniques to make a positive impact/change.

• Apply the knowledge they have in a way that results in the most benefit to students.

• Sometimes more questions are rasied than are ask!!!!

Good News

• You can get through the first two stages quickly and move on to the mastery and Impact stage, sooner if you know what to do.

• First few days of school are the most important.

Quotes• Here’s the biggest secret to teaching

success:

• Beg, Borrow and Steal…..

….Ideals

The first year can be frightening

• Teacher education will not have prepared you

• Student teaching will not have prepared you

• The district may not have prepared you.

• Yet you will be expected to perform immediately

The End