"Every single student comes
to school every single day with an unlit candle, and it is their expectation
that you and I light that candle." This statement from the video "The
Effective Teacher" struck me the most because it manifests the responsibilities
and the challenges teachers must face. Lighting a candle isn't easy, it
requires an ample amount of patience, perseverance, passion and dedication to
give what is due to the learners.
I have also learned that there are four stages of teaching and that
includes the fantasy stage wherein students are expected to behave, follow the
rules and seat like little angels willing to always learn. This is common for
newbie teachers but as time passes survival mode kicks in wherein teachers drag
themselves to school while rowdy students make chaos inside the classroom or in
other scenarios, teachers ask students to open their books read, answer, class
dismiss and repeat. All teachers go through this crucial stage but the brave
and determined exceeds this and enter mastery where teaching is as simple as
breathing and there is ease in doing what teachers love to do and that is to
teach.
The video also tackled the three ways on how to be an effective teacher
which includes being a good classroom manager, can design lessons to reach
mastery and provide positive expectations that students will be successful when
they put hard work to it. It made me realize that even though teaching
isn't a piece of cake but the thought of contributing and touching the
lives of the learners, is fulfilling itself.
"This photo was taken before I enrolled in the School of Education."
