12 Rules - Continued.
Here are the other 6 rules. The first 6 has already been posted yesterday.
Rule 7 : Necessity is the mother of all invention.
"So here I was a first year teacher, with 250 students and a hundred dollar budget. My solution was bucket drumming. I had the idea to go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of five gallon paint buckets to use as drums. The kids love it..... This is my fourth year now, and it's really taken off. The programme has created almost a mini culture of young drummers roaming around Philadelphia,s public schools". Jason Chuong - itinerant music teacher in School District of Philadelphia.
Rule 8 : Produce good people, not just good students.
""The greatest challenge I face is to teach my students to be honorable in a dishonorable world. I want them to be decent even though they are growing up in an environment surrounded by indecency and a media that celebrates awful behavior . . . . My job is to show children that there is an alternative way to live one's life." Rafe Esquith - 5th grade teacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles, CA.
Rule 9 : The Future is now.
" Technology has changed my teaching and directly affected my students' learning. It's not that I consciously try to plan a lesson that has technology in it. It's just that it's woven in. It's almost invisible." Jo-Ann Fox - 4th grade teacher at Reidy Creek Elementary School in Escondido, CA.
Rule 10 : Be the person you want your students to become.
"In order to expect commitment from my students, I must first demonstrate my own commitment to each of them. I take the time to try to understand each of them personally; I make myself available during lunch hours, free periods, and after school . . . . Through seeing that my motivations lie with their success and not my own track record, the students come to their own conclusions about my sincerity. It is after this realization that I begin to see my students, one by one, meeting me halfway." Jane Klir Viau - AP statistics and microeconomics teacher at the Frederick Douglass Academy 1 in New York City, NY.
Rule 11 : You can't di it alone.
"Success does not occur in isolation . . . . It's only because of the teacher next door, the teacher down the hall. It's because of the secretaries. It's because of the administration. It's because of a whole staff working together to try and make good things happen. The magic formula in education is not hiring the right person. It's hiring the right group of people, who all want to achieve the same goals." Jeffrey Charbonneau - physics, chemistry, engineering, and architecture teacher at Zillah High School in Zillah, WA and 2013 National Teacher of the Year.
Rule 12 : Be a student of your students.
"Teaching reflects you. If you can look at that reflection, you will really learn about yourself. That humbles me and brings me to tears when I talk about it. Because in the beginning, I was scared of what I saw. Kids find the cracks in your armor. It is not that they set out to, they just do. But if you are willing to step back and reflect, you can grow so much. It is a wonderful, unexpected caveat. You think you are going to teach, but boy, do you learn. I have come to understand that, truly, I am my students' student." Jay Hoffman - multimedia, broadcasting, and social media teacher at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington, VT and 2013 Vermont Teacher of the Year.
These are the 12 best teachers recorded by the author of the book " American Teacher : Heroes in The Classrooms" Katrina Fried - www.huffingtonpost.com/katrina-fried/
Rule 7 : Necessity is the mother of all invention.
"So here I was a first year teacher, with 250 students and a hundred dollar budget. My solution was bucket drumming. I had the idea to go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of five gallon paint buckets to use as drums. The kids love it..... This is my fourth year now, and it's really taken off. The programme has created almost a mini culture of young drummers roaming around Philadelphia,s public schools". Jason Chuong - itinerant music teacher in School District of Philadelphia.
Rule 8 : Produce good people, not just good students.
""The greatest challenge I face is to teach my students to be honorable in a dishonorable world. I want them to be decent even though they are growing up in an environment surrounded by indecency and a media that celebrates awful behavior . . . . My job is to show children that there is an alternative way to live one's life." Rafe Esquith - 5th grade teacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles, CA.
Rule 9 : The Future is now.
" Technology has changed my teaching and directly affected my students' learning. It's not that I consciously try to plan a lesson that has technology in it. It's just that it's woven in. It's almost invisible." Jo-Ann Fox - 4th grade teacher at Reidy Creek Elementary School in Escondido, CA.
Rule 10 : Be the person you want your students to become.
"In order to expect commitment from my students, I must first demonstrate my own commitment to each of them. I take the time to try to understand each of them personally; I make myself available during lunch hours, free periods, and after school . . . . Through seeing that my motivations lie with their success and not my own track record, the students come to their own conclusions about my sincerity. It is after this realization that I begin to see my students, one by one, meeting me halfway." Jane Klir Viau - AP statistics and microeconomics teacher at the Frederick Douglass Academy 1 in New York City, NY.
Rule 11 : You can't di it alone.
"Success does not occur in isolation . . . . It's only because of the teacher next door, the teacher down the hall. It's because of the secretaries. It's because of the administration. It's because of a whole staff working together to try and make good things happen. The magic formula in education is not hiring the right person. It's hiring the right group of people, who all want to achieve the same goals." Jeffrey Charbonneau - physics, chemistry, engineering, and architecture teacher at Zillah High School in Zillah, WA and 2013 National Teacher of the Year.
Rule 12 : Be a student of your students.
"Teaching reflects you. If you can look at that reflection, you will really learn about yourself. That humbles me and brings me to tears when I talk about it. Because in the beginning, I was scared of what I saw. Kids find the cracks in your armor. It is not that they set out to, they just do. But if you are willing to step back and reflect, you can grow so much. It is a wonderful, unexpected caveat. You think you are going to teach, but boy, do you learn. I have come to understand that, truly, I am my students' student." Jay Hoffman - multimedia, broadcasting, and social media teacher at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington, VT and 2013 Vermont Teacher of the Year.
These are the 12 best teachers recorded by the author of the book " American Teacher : Heroes in The Classrooms" Katrina Fried - www.huffingtonpost.com/katrina-fried/
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