My Reflection On How To Become A Good Teacher

To start, this module has really helped me to think and to reflect of how to become a good teacher. I have always wanted to help student learn, to listen to students and to care for them, to impart knowledge, guide students in learning new skills and procedures and evaluate students as to the mastery of these new skills and to also become a curious, life-long learner. And this module has helped me of how can I achieve it. The teaching profession demands an in-depth knowledge of subject content and pedagogy. So to enter the teaching profession, we should know about pedagogy that is teaching and learning of the child.

During this module, I realized that teaching and learning is not only between the teacher and the students. Teaching and learning

For instance, all teachers has read about the national curriculum framework which aims at equipping learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the challenges of thinking skills and creativity, while aiming at the holistic development of the learner. The educational orientations that have directed the NCF (secondary) is to educate the secondary students. The educational orientation is in terms of communication, intellectual and life values. The curriculum will help me to make my scheme of work. Every teacher is supposed to have a yearly lesson plan, weekly lesson plan and daily lesson plan. A lesson plan is very important as I would already plan my lesson by writing the steps and therefore, during the lesson, I would be sure of what I have to do and how to manage my time. As in a class there are mixed abilities students, so my lesson plan can be affected by those students. So this module has helped me of how to face this problem. During this module, I came across cooperative and differentiated lesson plan. In a differentiated lesson plan, we take into considerations about the low abilities students, average abilities student and high abilities students and make three different lesson plans for those three different abilities students. But the objectives of the lesson will be same for the whole class. There are some teaching and learning resources that can be used to enhance

The inductive approach leads to discovery learning. This will help me while teaching. For instance, if I am teaching a topic to my Form 4 students and the base of the topic has already been done in Form 1. So I can use the inductive approach to teach the new topic to my students as the inductive approach is from what the students know to what they don’t know. Moreover, I can give some examples to the students and asked them what they notice. So I am guiding the students to explore the topics. This method is very efficient as it help making student interact and participate in the class. The deductive method is very much teacher centered as the teacher tells or shows directly what he/she wants to teach. More information is given to the students in this method.

To sum up, I learnt a lot from this module. It has helped me of how I can become a good teacher. It has also made me become a reflective practitioner. That is, I should always reflect on my work. For instance, when I teach in a class, I should reflect whether my lesson was well planned and the techniques used were correct. For me, the goal of this module is to provide opportunities for trainee teachers to see and feel teaching as a form of enquiry and as a continual learning