Here are some tips to make use of your strengths when you plan your lesson plans.
Building student-teacher relationships is a lot like dough rising. You need time for them to develop and often these relationships ddetermine the quality of learning outcomes.
You see, I'm spending a great deal of time on teacher forums and message boards reading a great deal about teacher experiences and they remind me so much of those earlier yearrs when I tried to impress my students (and myself among others) with a dazzling lesson plan. One big helpful hint I've learned through and through is to try and plan your own lessons first without looking too much for information from the Internet. I have learned that it can distract me from focusing on what it is that I really need to develop. Once I had a challenging group of ninth grade learners who had virtually little study skills. They were poorly motivated and there was frequent noise and discipline problems.
I was constantly looking for ideas on how to motivate them, but the real learning experience came when I opened myself to the realization that they thrived when I opened to discussing topics they were interested in rather than bringing in my own recipes. Becoming a great teacher is focusing on making your weaknesses (iework for you rather than finding that magic recipe.
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