Walking into my second school visit this week, I was a little bit surprised by how much more confident I felt having had one previous day at a middle school. The two middle schools that I visited were both distinctly different in many ways, yet I had a much better idea about how things were structured, and what to expect upon entering the building. Whereas last week my main priority was to get a sense of what a middle school really was in general and how it functioned, this week my goal was to spend more time interacting with the students in classes that I visited and to get a sense of the differences between different classes.
Tag: question
What makes a good teacher?
Today we did an activity where we were asked to brainstorm ideas about “what makes a good teacher”. Given everything that we’ve been learning over the past month as well as my own experiences with teaching and tutoring, I thought I had a pretty good idea about what makes a good teacher, and what my future students would be expecting of me. To me, a good teacher is someone who is observant/attentive to each student as an individual within the class, knowledgeable about what they are teaching, and passionate about what they do.
After jotting down all my ideas (in purple in the image below), I was passed two letters from middle school students who shared their take on “good teachers”. What did middle school students think a good teacher should do? I added their ideas to my brainstorming (in pink).