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VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER

VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER. Voices. An online discussion: the voices of teachers from (mostly) Europe. I remember… My best teacher…. …loved teaching…. Issues in teaching. Good teachers: born or made?. Good teachers: Spontaneous or well-prepared?.

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VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER

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  1. VOICES FROM THE CLASSROOM BECOMING A BETTER TEACHER

  2. Voices

  3. An online discussion: the voices of teachers from (mostly) Europe.

  4. I remember… • My best teacher… …loved teaching…

  5. Issues in teaching

  6. Good teachers: born or made?

  7. Good teachers: Spontaneous or well-prepared?

  8. Good teachers: knowledge or personal qualities?

  9. Good teachers:   practice of language or practice of freedom?

  10. Good teachers: technicians or educators?

  11. Good teachers: repeat or reflect?

  12. Things teachers say

  13. Good teachers are: ‘knowledgeable, passionate, humorous, open-minded, talkative’.

  14. ‘…supportive especially when students have to take a difficult exam’

  15. ‘The best teacher… was strict up to a point and at the same time so patient’

  16. ‘The best teacher I've ever had was calm, open and sympathetic. You could discuss everything with her…’

  17. ‘A good teacher is friendly. Sometimes he tells jokes in order to cheer us up’

  18. ‘First of all, she should know very well what she has to teach’.

  19. ‘he was very well organised and dedicated to his job; but also made me study hard’

  20. ‘Kind, helpful and patient are definitely characteristics of a good teacher’.

  21. ‘facilitates’

  22. ‘Talks …about other subjects’

  23. ‘Walks the talk’

  24. ‘Uses mistakes’

  25. Summing up: patterns

  26. QUALITIES VOTES 1 52 2 48 3 32 4 30 5 29 6 26 7 21 8 17 9 17 10 14 Friendly Explained well Sense of humour Knew the subject Patient Kind Believed in students Interesting Talked about other things Enthusiastic

  27. The deep structure

  28. Some are born teachers… Some become teachers… Some have teaching thrust upon them!

  29. Teachers in action

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