TURN BACK TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE

1. TURN BACK TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE • You are a teacher. • You can become a great teacher …….. • “we are teaching, are they learning?” Thoughts become things through emotions

2. About you said • “I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom, my teacher!” • Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. • Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. • Without teacher’s appreciation there can’t be any student progress. • The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile!

3. Top five qualities of good teacher • 1. Passion: Without this, it is impossible to become a great teacher. If you don’t love your subject, how can you expect your students to? • 2. Creativity: Regardless of discipline, creativity is paramount. To be a great teacher, you have to be ready to develop custom, creative lesson plans and projects. You have to have an arsenal of techniques. You need to be a problem-solver. You get the idea. • 3. Flexibility: Students have complex lives, as do you. If everything is set in stone, you’ll eventually crack. • 4. Integrate: Realize that learning is not static and you can’t be either I am a firm believer in integrated curriculum and content. Life isn’t in isolated boxes, so learning shouldn’t be either. • 5. Connect :Information can’t be transmitted without a solid connection, and neither can knowledge. You need to form a connection with each and every student. Technically speaking, the knowledge has to form a connection to the student, but you are the representation and medium of that knowledge.

4. Remember, • being well organized and having well prepared lessons are also important to have a well-managed class. six powerful forces in education: • Activity • Diversity • Interaction • Cooperation • Expectations • Responsibility • We don’t get what we want, but what we need!!

5. What makes a good teacher? Rate the following teacher qualities in order of importance? A. They are good looking. B. They are entertaining. C. They can control the class. D. They give interesting classes. E. They know their students. F. They can keep control. G. They prepare well. H. They know their subject. fhacdgbe

6. Humor as a Teaching Tool • Humor is a valuable teaching tool for establishing a classroom climate conducive to learning. • Humor is great for "fear training" • Appropriate and timely humor in the training room • Mutual openness (Careful) • Respect (Or lack thereof) • Contribute to training effectiveness

7. Importance of sense of humor • Sense of humor can help you become a successful teacher. • Your sense of humor can relieve tension in the classroom. • A sense of humor will also make class more enjoyable for your students and possibly make students look forward to attending and paying attention. • Most importantly, a sense of humor will allow you to see the joy in life and make you a happier person as you progress through this sometimes - stressful career. • It can make you appear more human to your students.

9. Think Win/Win • Think Win/Win – is foundational to achieve, what is known as our Public Victory. • The “Six Paradigms/examples of Human Interaction” are: • Win/Win• Win/Loose• Lose/Win• Lose/Lose• Win• Win/Win or No Deal • Teacher gets self satisfaction; student gets equally enlightened.

10. A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. • Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. • "Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.“ • "The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." • "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."

11. The Ideal Teacher: • is expert in own subjects • is expert in the teaching role, well organized, well prepared • Is confident, open to suggestions, other viewpoints, • is flexible and approachable • is interested in individual students, and spends time with them • is consistent in the treatment • is consistent in behavior - always fair, always even tempered • is friendly, with a sense of humor • shares with students the teaching aims and objectives • knows the students’ strengths and weaknesses • communicates well in a variety of modes including non-verbal • leads well, with appropriate pace • is flexible and willing to change the approach • gives feedback within an appropriate timescale.

12. Flexibility • You have 41 students in your class, but there are only desks for 32. There is also a small table with four more chairs around it. That leaves five students without a place to sit. • What do you do? • A. Complain out loud to the students that there is no room for them and they will just have to sit on the floor. • B. Send students out to other classrooms looking for spare desks and chairs. • C. Smile and make a joke about the lack of space while keeping an upbeat attitude that it will all be fixed in a few days. • D. Make no comment concerning the situation and get right down to the business of that day. • The best answer is C. • By smiling and trying to make the students laugh about the situation, you make them welcome uncomfortable or unwanted feel also. • Your flexibility will allow you to adjust to this situation and to realize that it will not last forever.

13. The 12 • Gravity [seriousness] is a virtue which regulates the exterior of a teacher. • Silence is a virtue which leads the teacher to avoid talking when he must not speak and to speak when he should not be silent. • Humility (humbleness) is a virtue which inspires us with low sentiments of ourselves; • Prudence (good sense) is a virtue which makes us understand what we need to do and what we need to avoid. • Wisdom is a virtue which gives us knowledge of the most exalted things through the most excellent principles so that we may act accordingly. • Patience is a virtue which makes us overcome, without murmuring and with submission to the will of God, all the evils of this life, and especially the cares inseparable from the education of youth.

14. Cont. .. • Reserve is a virtue which makes us think, speak, and act with moderation, discretion, and modesty • Gentleness is a virtue which inspires us with goodness, sensitivity, and tenderness. • Zeal is a virtue which makes us procure the glory of God with great affection. • Vigilance is the virtue which makes us diligent and painstaking in fulfilling all our duties. • Piety (faithfulness) is a virtue which makes us fulfill worthily our duties toward profession. • Generosity is a virtue which makes us sacrifice voluntarily our personal interests to those of our neighbor,

15. Top 10 Worst Things a Teacher Can Do • Avoid smiling and being friendly with your students. • Becoming friends with students while they are in class. • Stop your lessons and confront students for minor infractions in class. • Humiliate students to try and get them to behave. • Give your control over to the students. • Treat students differently based on personal likes and dislikes. • Quote examples which are not fair. • Gossip and complain about other teachers. • Be inconsistent with evaluation and/or accepting late work.

16. Presence of mind • Presence of mind simply means being able to control your reactions to a given situation. • Q. Approximately how many birthdays does the average Japanese woman have? 1 • How can you lift an elephant with one hand? • How can a man go eight days without sleep? • Why it is impossible to send a telegram to Washington today ?A... Because he is dead. (IIM-A) • If you throw a blue stone into the red sea what will it become ? • What often falls but never gets hurt ?A. Rain (IIM-K)

17. What is that no man ever saw which never was but always will be? • What can you never eat at breakfast? • What gets wet while drying? -- towel •  What 3 letters change a girl into a woman ?A. AGE. (IAS-12 rank) • How is it easy to weigh a fish?A. Because it has its own scales.( IPS--1997) • Q. Why does a bike rest on its leg?A. Because it is too(Two) tyred. ( IAS-67)

18. Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or only one really difficult question”. • The probable thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really difficult question.“ • "Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. "What comes first, Day or Night?“ • The boy was taken aback to reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but as he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY sir!“ • "How" the interviewer asked, • "Sorry sir, you promised me that you will ask me only one  difficult question!" • He was selected for IIM

19. In a shop a man asked for 1/2 kg of butter. The Sales person, a young boy, said that only 1kg packs were available in the shop, but the man insisted on buying only 1/2 kg. So the boy went inside to the manager's room and said "An idiot outside wants to buy only 1/2 kg of butter". To his surprise, the customer was standing behind him. So the boy added immediately, "And this gentleman wants to buy the other half!!" After the customer left, the manager said "You have saved your position by being clever enough at the right time. Where do you come from?" To this the boy said, "I come from Mexico. The place consists of only prostitutes and football players!!!!!" The manager replied coldly, "My wife is also from Mexico." To this the boy asked excitedly, "Oh yeah? Which team does she play for?" Moral of the story: Believe in your presence of mind and never acknowledgment 

20. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from? • It's twenty years ago, and a plane crashes from 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into East and West Germany) Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany, West Germany, or "no man's land“? • A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left?

21. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days? • If you had only one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first? • Is half of two plus two equal to two or three? • If a farmer has 5 haystacks ( large packed piles of grass) in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field? • Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

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