Can You REALLY Describe Good Teaching?
Do you have a great teacher in your school? Several great teachers? Teachers whose classes students can’t wait to get into? I think we all have those teachers. Teachers who get the strongest endorsement that we can give–the “I want my own child to be in his/her class” endorsement.
But now you get asked “What makes Mrs. Smith a great Math teacher?”. What do you say?
What really makes a ‘great’ teacher? And at this point, I want to fully acknowledge that the antecedents of the craft of excellent teaching are multivariate and as a result there are many answers to this question. But if you were asked by a Principal of another school that question–”What makes Mrs. Smith such a great Math teacher?”–words and phrases such as relationships, engagement, interactions, classroom management, flow-
But now you get asked “What makes Mrs. Smith a great Math teacher?”. What do you say?
What really makes a ‘great’ teacher? And at this point, I want to fully acknowledge that the antecedents of the craft of excellent teaching are multivariate and as a result there are many answers to this question. But if you were asked by a Principal of another school that question–”What makes Mrs. Smith such a great Math teacher?”–words and phrases such as relationships, engagement, interactions, classroom management, flow-