Week Three: What makes a good teacher?

Reflect on

• Do you remember having a good teacher? Or a particularly bad one? Reflect on your memory, what was about it about this teacher that makes them stand out for you?

Mrs. Doris Wilcox, excellent at explaining and making all her students feel confident enough to carry out roleplays in L2.

• How does this image of a teacher relate to other images you have of a "good" teacher?

I think my other images could have similar characteristics: teachers seem to have lots of patience and praise highly even the lowest piece of production.

Watch

• 3.2.1 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore
• 3.2.2 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore continued 
• 3.2.3 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore continued
• 3.2.4 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore continued
• 3.2.5 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore continued
• 3.2.6 Clare talks with Professor Alex Moore continued

I am learning/refreshing so much!

Read one of these two blogs/essays:

• What is pedagogy?
• The magic of a good science teacher  He is really a magician =) 

Padlet Wall

A Palestine teacher doing the very best of her job: teaching!
A real teacher wants to transfer knowledge no matter where s/he is.

Hangout:  Talkabout 

Reflective blog 

I met Mrs. Doris Wilcox at Southampton City College, UK.  I went to her class full of mixed feelings.  I would have never imagined how much I profited from her “good teaching” as stated by Professor Alex Moore 3.2.1. She dominated the subject to teach – EFL.  She was an experienced inspirational English teacher with lots of charisma – both empathy and sympathy 3.2.3 which made her students feel confident enough to express themselves without inhibitions in a lower intermediate level!   But she was NOT a fictional charismatic teacher, she planned her lessons (she had a large notebook which kept at a glance) and we gained good results from her teaching.  What is more, we were able to see immediate results in the one too many pair/group work, storytelling or speeches telling the class about our countries.   I wish could recall them all to use them in my own classes.  The most important part was the final product.  We felt thrilled when we made ourselves understood by using a recently learnt piece of functional language.

She never seemed to be tired of the one too many questions her mixed nationality class asked.  The idea of a stiff upper lip English teacher was completely forgotten as soon as her students met her.  I would say she played an influential role on her students.    

According to the Cambridge dictionary online “pedagogy” is the study of the methods and activities of teaching while other authors go back into history defending their views on pedagogy.  I think, Mrs. Doris Wilcox taught us a hundred percent pedagogically: she made esson plans, she had rapport, she was a language model, an input provider who knew how to deal with 8 or 10 different nationalities in a single classroom.  I guess, at that time there might have been more than one student thinking differently of her.  This could be due to the fact these learners have different background (sex equality), come from very rigid teaching environment (Asian: teachers are not supposed to bow), just don´t like L2 at all or other reasons.

She is not longer with us – she passed away some years back.

 met Mrs. Doris Wilcox at Southampton City College, UK.  I went to her class full of mixed feelings.  I would have never imagined how much I profited from her “good teaching” as stated by Professor Alex Moore 3.2.1. She dominated the subject to teach – EFL.  She was an experienced inspirational English teacher with lots of charisma – both empathy and sympathy 3.2.3 which made her students feel confident enough to express themselves without inhibitions in a lower intermediate level!   But she was NOT a fictional charismatic teacher, she planned her lessons (she had a large notebook which kept at a glance) and we gained good results from her teaching.  What is more, we were able to see immediate results in the one too many pair/group work, storytelling or speeches telling the class about our countries.   I wish could recall them all to use them in my own classes.  The most important part was the final product.  We felt thrilled when we made ourselves understood by using a recently learnt piece of functional language.

She never seemed to be tired of the one too many questions her mixed nationality class asked.  The idea of a stiff upper lip English teacher was completely forgotten as soon as her students met her.  I would say she played an influential role on her students.    

According to the Cambridge dictionary online “pedagogy” is the study of themethods and activities of teaching while other authors go back into history defending their views on pedagogy.  I think, Mrs. Doris Wilcox taught us a hundred percent pedagogically: she made lesson plans, she had rapport, she was a language model, an input provider who knew how to deal with 8 or 10 different nationalities in a single classroom.  I guess, at that time there might have been more than one student thinking differently of her.  This could be due to the fact these learners have different background (sex equality), come from very rigid teaching environment (Asian: teachers are not supposed to bow), just don´t like L2 at all or other reasons.

She is not longer with us – she passed away some years back.

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