Response to "Is the Great American Teacher Dead?"

March 3rd, 2019.

John J. Ivers wrote a lot of interesting facts about teaching. All persons who want to become teachers must have the vocation for teaching and apply the following aspects in their future classrooms:

- Teachers need to know that they are principal characters in one student's learning life. Independently of what motivates them to teach, they are required to know that the real purpose of their professional life is to contribute in all classroom's member life and to help, motivate and contribute them to accomplish all their goals. "Teachers should not fear to be a little more exciting, a little more courageous, a little more entertaining, a little more stimulating, and a little more inspiring. If one believes he or she is engaged in a great work, one’s comportment and bearing need to be proportionately reflective".

- Student's attention

All teachers know that each lesson must to be well-planed for giving students a lot of resources of learning. But do we really to that? Do we carefully think about in our class needs? If we did it's OK. But it would be better if we focus on catching each integrant of the class' attention and apply with enthusiasm each point od our lesson plan. We need to write and apply it. 

-Real world situations.

We talk about many items in each class and we share our knowledge with it but sometimes we forget to PREPARE our students for real-life situations and teach them how to act into them.  As John Ivers mentioned, we need to become those teachers who really help students to gain confidence with themselves, so they can be independent and take good choices at the moment of being in front of this situations.

For example:

In one TESOL classroom, the teacher needs to provide chances to students practice how to respond to a common conversation. The teacher teaches about grammar but also apply methods and techniques where this grammar can be used with fluid dialogues and daily circumstances.

-Finally, I would like to focus on how the brain remembers the emotional components of an experience better than any other aspect. 

In this article, I mentioned how to create situations where our students can participate. These activities are essential in each class, these create a good classroom environment, where the affective filter is low. If our class has the correct environment we effectively will accomplish each objective and our class could become in our student's second home, where they increase their motivation and love in learning. 

Don't forget that teaching is art and the students are the motivation that an artist needs.

For which piece of art do you want to be remembered?