The Simple, Hard Truth About Teaching
- Caring teachers who create relationships with their students enhance student learning.
- Effective teachers carefully establish classroom routines that enable them and their students to work flexibly and efficiently.
- Teachers’ enthusiasm for learning and for their subject matter is an important factor in student motivation that, in turn, is closely linked with student achievement.
- Effective teachers spend a great deal of time working and interacting directly with students.
- Effective teachers set high expectations for themselves and their students with an orientation toward growth and improvement evident in the classroom.
As I was reading the very last chapter in Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated
Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson, I came to full terms of understanding the
importance connections and relationships are with your students. The
connections made in the classroom can last a lifetime and have positive results
for the rest of their lives. I’m going to be
the teacher who is mindful of each student, who takes time to get to know each
student as an individual, and who goes above and beyond to create a special
bond with each student. Elementary is a crucial time in children’s lives, and it’s the moments we create
in the classroom that will last a lifetime.
