2nd WEEK

The 12^th of November of 2020 we spend the class watching some videos about the topic: Efficient Teacher. These are the videos mentioned:

·       Video 1. The Effective Teacher

·       Video 2. Effective Teaching in the 21st Century

·       Video 3. 7Cs of Effective Teaching

·       Video 4. Top 10 Qualities of an Effective Teacher

·       Video 5. Teaching in the 21st Century

These are some key ideas my group partner and I caught up while watching the five videos: (Aquí hacer la nube de palabras que vimos enc lase)

-      Personality

-      Specific knowledge

-      There are many factors that influence the practice.

-      Teacher’s role: believe in student’s potential.

-      Class environment.

-      Challenge

-      Respect differences.

-      Materials have to be useful and relevant, in summary, meaningful.

-      Students learn by discovering.

-      Group style and feedback.

-      Building bridges between students needs and curriculum.

-      Encourage social interaction.

-      Passionate.

-      Leadership: good role model.

-      Connected: collaboration with other teacher, parents, etc.

-      Organized

-      Flexible: Go with the flow

-      Dynamic

-      Aspirational

-      Ambitious

-      Empathic

-      Creative and diversity

-      Open minded, learn from experiences and learners.

-      Students can find information everywhere at anytime so the teachers roles as the only source of knowledge is obsoleted. We have to teach them tools to filter that information (critical mind).

-      For whom are they learning this? With which purpose? That’s how we have to structure our classes.

-      Lessons have to be relevant challenging engaging.

After all this, we came into this statement:

After watching the five videos we came with this list of the best qualities of an effective teacher, by our point of view:

Expert: She/he must have an specific knowledge of the topic is teaching. Is going to be the reference for tens of students, she/he needs to provide them with the best data.

Challenging: She/he needs to create an engaging envionrement that push students to get out of their comfort zone, explore, create and become the best person they can be.

Passionate and inspiring: As the teacher is going to be one of their main influences, she/he needs to believe in his/her students' potential and create experiences where they can prove their value.

Organized and flexible at the same time: The most effective teacher needs to have everything under control, planned and conscious decided. But, it also needs to take advantages of the opportunities the routine in class provides, like students doubts, weather situations, news of the day, etc. Everything is an opportunity to develop a new learning experience in class.

Empathic: There is no effective learning process if you can not connect with your students. If you create tight ties you will understand them and adapt better the teaching process to their needs.

Creative: To adapt better the classes and create an engaging envionrement you need to think out of the box. And at the same time you will reflect that open mind philosophy to them.

 

After watching and discussing the videos we end the class with this question: How do we connect objectives with activities?