Decide To Teach Them All Essay

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Petty (2009) Teaching Today: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition contextualized the significance of good teachers in real life: Good teachers touch people’s lives for ever. If you teach well, some of your students will only succeed because of your excellent teaching. They then might go on to get more advanced qualifications and skills, again just because of your expert teaching. Then they might get a career, indeed a whole life, built on your excellent teaching. No other profession is that consequential and enagling.
Is it a time to look at education from different prospective?
The right starting point to begin this research lays in the teaching/learning process. To understand the importance of how a teacher gets to know its students is …show more content…

She says “We turn from looking at a student’s “labels” to searching for that student’s interests and needs. We shift from focusing on the student’s deficits—what he or she cannot do— to looking at the student’s strengths. We move away from the question “How do I remediate this student?” and toward “What do I do to ensure that this student works at the highest level of thought and production?”
Figure 1.1 represents student analysis instrument that can help teachers with compiling learning profiles for their students. To collect student data profesors should form certain questions about each student as a learner. William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell in their book How to teach now formed a series of questions that professors might ask themselves as they develop learning profiles for each student. The questions were categorized into the five following dimensions:

1. Biological traits
– In what ways might the student’s gender be influencing learning in the classroom?
– Is there anything in the student’s medical records that indicates a condition that might impact classroom learning?
– Does the student have a learning disability?
– Has the student been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD?
– Has the student been identified as highly

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