Teachers require many skills {teaching}. Teachers have tasks relative to students, administrative tasks, and disciplinary tasks.
skills
Skills are subject knowledge, general knowledge, student knowledge, teaching excitement, subject excitement, student excitement, language skill, acting skill, problem-solving skill, recall skill, people skills, patience, humor, ethics, and physical stamina. Perhaps, place for learning needs more than one person per student to fulfill all these roles.
student age
Teachers teach grade level that they like best.
communication
Teachers can teach better if they use descriptive, predictive, and problem oriented communication, rather than evaluative, prescriptive, and control-oriented communication.
expectation
Students typically learn just enough to feel satisfaction. High expectations can raise level required for satisfaction.
group feeling
Teachers establish group feeling. Teachers encourage cooperation. Teachers try to make classroom less inhibiting, passive, obedient, and controlled.
subject to be taught
Teacher knows one subject well. Students take one subject at a time, rather than five, so they can concentrate. Teachers tell why they like subject. Teachers include subject history and pertinent biographies. Teachers relate knowledge to student lives, current and future.
motivation techniques
New experiences with low anxiety are good for motivation. Participation is good for motivation. Desire for competence is motivator. Identification with model, desire to be with and please other students, and belonging are good for motivation. Knowing reasons for doing something is good for motivation. Motivation depends on personal needs and desires, which can extend and integrate into larger world, past and present.
motivation: wants
People want to have meaningful lives and find meaning in everything they do. People want to have values that work in all situations. People want to have power over their lives, to be able to move toward their goals. People want to have pleasure in their activities, because activities involve their own goals and they can succeed.
motivation: rewards
Teachers use positive rewards to motivate. Teachers praise students. Teachers send notes home, with positive messages, about good behavior.
teacher movement
Teachers move about, rather than sit behind desk.
questions
Teachers ask questions at all difficulty levels. Teachers direct question toward named student that can answer question. Teachers wait three seconds for answer. Teachers keep working with student until he or she reaches acceptable answer. Teachers ask other students to paraphrase what someone else just said. Question directs attention.
teacher-student relations
Teacher writing ability, vocabulary, and so on, is much greater than student skills. Teachers and students are not equals. Teachers are like parents. Students act like good sons or daughters. Teachers know which students work better alone and which students work better with others. Teachers know how pressure affects students. Teachers know student motivations. Teachers know student values. Teachers know which sense students use best. Teachers know what times of day students are most alert. Teachers know how noise affects students. Teachers know assignments that students do best. Teachers know which study place is best for students. Teachers know how students answers questions. Teachers know student risk-taking. Teachers do not fear students. Teachers do not stereotype students. Teachers treat students as individuals.
Teachers have right {academic freedom}| to teach, study, research, and publish based on their conscience, as long as it does not affect others' rights.
Principals {principal, education}| need to be autonomous, have training, and develop shared goals for teachers.
Universities offer lifetime faculty privileges {tenure}|, to encourage independent thinking.
People {teacher} can instruct others.
abilities
Teachers have complete education, can discuss all intellectual ideas, can analyze problems, know about world, and continue to learn all new knowledge.
attitudes
Teachers are sympathetic, understanding, and kind. Teachers are polite. Teachers are fair. Teachers set good example in habits, ideas, and speech. Teachers show respect for others. Teachers emphasize positive values. Teachers show enthusiasm. Teachers use eye contact, student names, and gestures. Teachers act same toward everyone. Teachers, and parents, have emotional involvement with students. Personal observation tests understanding and ability to use knowledge. Teachers are open to questions and conversation. Teachers provide experience, reading, and discussion. Teachers teach reasons, causes, comparisons, examples, and connections. Teachers let students make choices from acceptable alternatives. Teachers do not ask many questions but should express emotions and feelings. Teachers answer embarrassing questions formally and truthfully.
behavior
Teachers give equal time to students. Teachers make eye contact, talk loud enough, talk slow enough, and use inflection.
profession
Education professionals, like doctors, have student, intern, resident, and doctor levels. Teachers provide either individual help and/or group sessions. Teachers bill school for services. Teachers choose working hours and vacations. Teachers do research. Teachers go to conferences and seminars. High school teachers associate with local college, and grade school teachers with local high school. Teachers perform professional teaching duties, while school administrators do rest.
Outline of Knowledge Database Home Page
Description of Outline of Knowledge Database
Date Modified: 2022.0225