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The Teacher Concerning a teacher’s influence, I have come to the

The Teacher Concerning a teacher’s influence, I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a

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The Teacher Concerning a teacher’s influence, I have come to the

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  1. The Teacher Concerning a teacher’s influence, I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized. - HaimGinott

  2. There is nothing so unjust as treating unequals as though they were equal.

  3. Most of my teachers let only the early finishers attempt [those] the enrichment and going further activities at the end of the chapter. Looking back, I realize that …

  4. A Debate: The Inclusive Teacher vs. The Exclusive Teacher

  5. One of the most exciting developments in modern education goes by the name of cooperative (or collaborative) learning and has children working in pairs or small groups. An impressive collection of studies has shown that participation in well-functioning cooperative groups leads students to feel more positive about themselves, about each other, and about the subject they’re studying. Students also learn more effectively on a variety of measures when they can learn with each other instead of against each other or apart from each other. Cooperative learning works with kindergartners and graduate students, with students who struggle to understand and students who pick things up instantly; it works for math and science, language skills and social studies, fine arts and foreign languages. - Alfie Kohn

  6. If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.

  7. A Learning Space needs to be hospitable not to make learning painless, but to make the painful things possible…things like exposing ignorance, testing tentative hypotheses, challenging false or partial information, and mutual criticism of thought. [None of these] can happen in an atmosphere where people feel threatened or judged. - Parker J. Palmer

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