WATCHING A VIDEO
- Watch the video and write 10 comprehension questions.
- There are a few phrases highlighted (in bold type). Make questions with each of them.
- Write out ten more useful phrases related to the topic of teaching.
- Make a translation exercise (from Russian into English) for your fellow students with the given phrases. Use Classroom English from the website Englishhobby.ru.
- Do five-minute teaching in the classroom with the exercise you have prepared.
Script for the video ‘10 Habits of Successful Teachers’
Hi everyone! Welcome back to my channel! My name is Amanda Rose, if you are new. Hi! I am a high school, social studies, teacher in Brooklyn, New York, and if you are returning, thanks for coming back to another video. Now today I wanted to share with you guys 10 habits that I think make successful teachers or maybe like 10 characteristics of successful teachers. Now I am totally making this list by like my own observation by the people in my school or maybe the friends that I know that I would deem as successful teachers. And so, by no means, did I like go and research you know all of these teachers from different schools in different countries like it’s not that kind of thing. It’s just what I have observed and what I’ve noticed with the people around me that I believe are successful teachers and what I have measured that by is how they build relationships with their students, their standardized testing scores and just their ability to be innovative and creative. I think that altogether the success of their classroom as a whole it’s pretty much how I have based these 10 things, and so I want to go through them quickly because there are a lot and I don’t want to make this video too long. Let’s get into it.
1. First one: successful teachers are consistent. Now when I say consistent I mean consistent in every aspect. They’re consistent in their grading. They’re consistent in their feedback. They’re consistent in their classroom management. They’re consistent in the way that they just run their ‘operation’ when it comes to teaching. Consistency is totally key. Everything about the word. ‘consistency, that’s how I think most teachers are successful. It is that they are just consistent.
2. Two: successful teachers are open to change. Now there is always a saying or this expectation or this assumption that when someone is teaching for a really long time they don’t want to explore new ideas and they are kind of ‘stuck in their ways’ and I think that this could apply to anything not just in teaching I think a lot of people can kind of just get stuck in their ways, even in the everyday routine of life. And so that can also be applied to your job. But I’ve seen that the most successful teachers are open to change. They’re open to try new things, new ideas. They’re willing to go back to the drawing board and figure out why something didn’t work. They’re willing to try new activities. They’re willing to listen to other people’s input and give other things a try.
Now I’m not saying that if you are an expert and you are teaching something
for such a long time and you know what’s best. I agree with that but I think there is a healthy balance with being open to new ideas and the teachers that I have seen that are the most successful are open to new ideas because they allow creativity in and when you allow creativity in, I think it opens up a world of possibilities for what can happen in the classroom. So most of the teachers that I have found that are successful are open to change.
3. Number three: they never stop learning. This is also one of my tips in another one of my videos, but the teachers that I know, that I look up to, they know so much, they’re constantly learning. They’re learning about race issues. They’re learning about economic inequality. They’re learning about indigenous people. They’re learning about the system. They’re learning about the government. They’re learning about their students. They’re learning about the communities that they teach. For me those are the most successful people where they’re not trying to teach out of this textbook idea or this theology. They are genuinely interested in learning about the people around them, interested in learning about their content and then again willing to change the way that they teach because that includes, or that incorporates, the best learning environment for their students. And so definitely that’s number three: they never stop learning.
4. Four: successful teachers make content engaging. I have seen a lot of teachers continue to have the same approach with their students, and things don’t work, and instead of continually trying to push this method or this way that you think is successful you have to really think about the students and think about what is engaging for them. Now is this difficult? Yes. Does it take more time? Yes. Does it take a lot more planning? Yes. But ultimately you have to think of ways to make your lessons engaging and the only way you really know that is by building relationships with your students and knowing what it is that they like and, you know, take this ‘with a grain of salt’. I’m not saying that if you have a really cool idea and you want to do it in the classroom but you don’t think your students will like it, don’t do it. You also have to its ‘trial and error’ right. You won’t really know unless you try it. But you have to think of ways to make lessons engaging. Switch it up, be different, don’t just possibly present information or provide lessons in the same way if you want them to be engaging to your students.
5. Five: successful teachers have clear learning objectives. If you’ve ever had a conversation with the teacher that you admire that you know is like killing it in the classroom, they have such a targeted objective they know. I want my students to grasp this and so because this is the goal I’ve created a B C and D to get us here. They are so targeted and oftentimes I think this is where a lot of new teachers may fall off is because I get it new teachers are just you’re trying to stay afloat and you’re trying to like juggle so many pieces you’re kind of like in that boat that has like a million holes and you’re trying to like stick your fingers and all the holes so you don’t drown. I totally get it, but a lot of times we can lose sight of the learning objective. And successful teachers have clear learning objectives they’re 100% targeted and everything that happens in their lesson is to move them forward towards the learning objective and that is a skill it takes time to master that, but those are definitely the ones that I think are the most successful.
6. Six: they reflect on their teaching. Often I remember when I first got into education I had like a journal that I would write down all of the things that had happened during that day whether it be conflict with a student if I saw that with my assessment my student at least half of them didn’t give me the responses that I had
anticipated, you have to reflect then. You have to think about why, why did that happen and how can I make this better in my opinion. it’s not really a good idea to just keep moving forward less than after the lesson. At the lesson you have to reflect and you have to see like what strategies are working and what isn’t working so that you can meet the needs of your students most effectively and reflecting on your teaching often it takes time but this is how you build your craft right. You assess what wasn’t right and then you try to fix it and oftentimes you’re gonna have to assess a lot of things that weren’t right you’re gonna have to fix a lot of things. That’s natural, normal. It happens to all of us. You don’t really know what needs to be adjusted until you’re actually teaching, but, again, in my opinion, the ones that have been the most successful are the ones that reflect on their teaching often.
7. Seven: successful teachers aren’t afraid to ask for help. Now I have seen (I think this applies again a lot too when you are new to the profession) so much of teaching can make you feel isolated because you don’t want to feel like a failure and so you feel like you really do have to like to solve every issue on your own and you feel like you don’t want people to know that you’re not doing a good job because maybe you don’t want to be on your admins radar. Or maybe you don’t want people coming in and out of your room and starting to feel like a target. You know these are real things that can happen when you’re a teacher and I think that those are really it’s a really scary mindset to have you want to feel comfortable being able to ask for help maybe again if there’s a teacher that you admire someone who’s also teaching your content area and you love their approach and you love their style definitely reach out to them ask for advice. That was one of the best things that I did in my couple of years of teaching and it’s things that I still do now like ‘Hey, I’m having an issue with this particular class like this group of
Students, all my other classes are fine, but when these students are together I’m
having a really hard time with classroom management. What do you do when you’ve had these kids?’ I ask for help constantly when I want to create an essay
assignment and I feel like I’m struggling with creating an outline for the kids I reached out to my English teachers, my English teacher friends and they helped me out. It is so wise to ask for help right we would say ask for help in every in any other area of our lives if we were struggling how much more in your career. So definitely reach out and ask for help.
8.. Number eight: successful teachers are organized. Now I think the word ‘organized’ is very broad. I think successful teachers can be organized in many different ways. I think, for me, I’m very organized with my physical space in my classroom, but when it comes to my like laptop for example, I had to see someone else’s laptop and be like “Wow, you’re organized!’ Every single unit by a folder and then every single lesson by that and this is how you title them and this is how you label everything and then even your worksheets are labeled — your powerpoints and then it was like ‘Whoa that is a whole nother level of organization!’ But that teacher has set herself up for the future where it’s easy to find things, things don’t get lost if a student needs something. If you need to send them the PowerPoint every single thing is labeled and it’s organized and it makes sense and so two years ago when I saw that I tried or I started not try it I started to organize my laptop. I still have to do that. That’s actually something I should be doing right now during this quarantine but organizing all of your work so that it’s easy to find, so just being organized whether it be your physical space, whether it be your computer, whether it be the way that you organize well, this bin is for makeup work, this bin is for work that I need to give back, this bin is for work that I need to grade. Organization on some level is necessary.
9.. Number nine: successful teachers don’t stay defeated. Obviously right how can
you be successful if you stay defeated? Those two words are opposite of each 1:05
other and so all this is saying is you’re going to experience moments where you feel defeated, where you feel like you have been a failure. I have experienced that I think any teacher that you talk to will have said that they experienced that or felt like they were never doing enough, you get a really bad observation and you just feel defeated but the goal is to not give up and again that’s with any part of life and so these are just skills that you’re applying to your career as ones who are successful is that they they see the defeat, they assess or they reflect on what happened and then they move forward to make those changes and then they are consistent.
Okay, so all of these habits work together like a well-oiled machine and then the last thing definitely not least successful teachers put their students first point-blank successful teachers put their students first and all of these ideas are connected to this number one goal when you have your students in mind you can think of targeted lessons when you have your students in mind then you can say well wait a second if this is the target my students would probably anticipate this so how do I remove this misconception how do I try to avoid this so that we can get here like you’re always thinking about them and how they may approach something and how they can reach their biggest potential in your classroom you have to put your students firm then it’s also a lot easier to create engaging learning activities when
you think about your students. Successful teachers think about their students and that is the driving force for everything else that they do. Again at least the ones that I have observed and the ones that I have grown to love and admire and strive to be like in my own teaching practice as well and so that’s pretty much it I hope that you guys enjoyed this video my observation of ten habits of successful teachers and I hope to see you guys in the next one.
TEACHING: AUDIO AND VIDEO
AUDIOAbidemi Teacher (about the teaching profession)Abidemi (about the best teacher)
HEALTH CARE: AUDIO AND VIDEO
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VIDEOS: ILLNESSES AND THEIR TREATMENT
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| Лексические темы (по опорным материалам Teaching, Education, Illnesses and their Treatment) | Лексические единицы (по пособию Do Well in English) | Сроки прохождения тем |
| ТЕМА 1: Teaching | Опорный текст 1: A Story About Making A Difference to make a (real) difference at the school one works to explore new ideas to be open to change It matters to this one! a trainee a trainee teacher to plan (very) good activities to work at a state school to tell somebody about one’s experiences in her school the conditions in state schools to be paid more / less the budgets of the schools to be low (about school budgets) to provide Internet access for students to be (very) lucky to have someone as a teacher one’s passion and dedication to feel a bit isolated to be enthusiastic to share one’s experiences with other people who care to make presentations at conferences to meet enthusiastic teachers like herself to keep a blog to connect with the other teachers to inspire someone with their great ideas to keep one’s enthusiasm alive to share one’s ideas and experiences via presentations and blogging a blog post to make more difference by ‘sharing’ to be gifted with the ability to make a difference have the power to shape the future Опорный текст 2: ‘Mistakes I made as a New Teacher’ (Video) a high school teacher a first-year teacher the mistakes that someone made as a new teacher to fall back into making the mistakes to plan one’s lessons for the entire week / day to day as a new teacher your time is scarce to think ahead even as far as (three) days to have a general idea to what your week is going to look like to plan one’s entire week to be (really) behind in content to plan ahead to grade (students works) one’s learning objective to do an activity to create an activity to wrestle with content to engage with each other the assignment to stress someone out to have a lack of organization a hot mess (AmE) a (huge) mismanagement of time to get overwhelmed with tasks to be important but not urgent to put something off to the side to lead to stress to get sick from stressing to do a work life (and a personal life) balance to live a balanced life to manage your time to strive for perfection to be a part of one’s personality to do well to prove that you belong there to beat oneself up about certain things that one didn’t get a chance to do or didn’t do well to meet the learning objective\ the hard way becomes exhausting be content with what you currently have to improve one’s experience as a first-year teacher Опорный текст 3: Interview with Michael Beresford teaching as a career a nursery school primary school / secondary school the vast majority of a career which many take up with enthusiasm at this level a kind of a substitute for the mother to figure a natural development secondary education a secondary school teacher to start one’s teaching career to be in teaching for a long time to put up resistance to cope with problems to get disillusioned to give up teaching to be short of good teachers to recruit people to pay somebody better salaries to have few problems of recruitment state secondary schools comprehensive schools one’s idea of a good teacher to know his or her own subject to be skilful with the subject he or she is teaching to be a person with a pleasant nature, pleasant personality to be sympathetic to young people and their problems to be understanding not to be full of sarcasm. to be educated to put scorn on children to make a slight mistake to be taught with great scorn and contempt to make somebody look foolish and ignorant to make somebody feel uncomfortable the opposite approach is required with somebody children who are most lacking confidence to encourage somebody from the part of a teacher to improve the child’s learning to learn from a teacher the matter of personality (is a problem of teaching) to know the subject perfectly to be a good and sympathetic person to be first and foremost training and skill and knowledge to come second Опорный текст 4: Survived My First Week to “survive” one’s first week (as a trainee teacher) the children didn’t eat me alive, nor did the staff to have a great, although incredibly tiring week so many things happened in my first week teaching as a ‘proper teacher’ I could go on for ages, to stand in front of one’s class an incredibly frightening moment but an enjoyable one none the less the first time one really realized that one is a ‘proper’ teacher a great feeling to know that … the children sitting there looking expectantly at (the teacher) One of the strangest things to get used to (was…) to have someone frequently in one’s lessons to check somebody’s plans to be incredibly frightening overall it was great to have the freedom to use my ‘professional judgment’ to decide how to approach things the ability to do things in one’s own way the staff at a school | Сентябрь-октябрь |
| ТЕМА 2: Education in Britain and USA | Опорный текст 5: Education in the UK to receive full-time education to be financed from public funds fee-paying independent schools non-selective comprehensive education selective school entry to ensure that only the highest achieving pupils succeed to be selected as a result of one’s academic ability to be assessed through the 11+ test state grammar schools private schools academic assessments qualify for a place comprehensive schools admit children of all abilities a comprehensive education compulsory to legally attend primary and secondary education runs from (about 5 years old) until the student is (16 years old) further education non-advanced education to be taken at further education colleges HE institutions an optional final stage of formal learning at a higher level than secondary school full-time students Early Years education not to be yet old enough to start school state nursery schools nursery classes voluntary pre-schools privately run nurseries a childminder home childcare nanny to offer full day care to offer sessional care only primary education to start school in the year in which he/she turns five to start reception reception classes within primary schools to cater for (younger children) public sector primary schools to transfer straight to secondary school at age (11) primary education to achieve basic literacy and numeracy to establish foundations in science, mathematics and other subjects secondary education to be publicly funded to benefit from greater freedoms to innovate to raise standards freedom from local authority control to set their own pay and conditions for staff the delivery of the curriculum the ability to change the lengths of terms and school days to admit pupils based on academic performance to be entered for a range of external examinations post-compulsory education to be distinct from the education offered in universities education for people over 16 excluding universities work-based learning adult and community learning institutions post-16 courses FE courses to be offered in the school sector and at some universities an advanced level of education beyond a full course of secondary education to be provided in distinct institutions at postgraduate level bachelor’s / master’s/ doctoral degree first degree courses ‘degrees with honours’ to take three years to complete a period of practical work outside the institution specialist courses vocational or professional degree courses further specialist training Опорный текст 6: Education system in the USA to be provided in public, private, and home schools to do a better job of educating students to have a federal system of government to have historically valued local governance to have (no) country-level education system or curriculum (not) to operate public schools to set guidelines for the schools to receive funding from the individual state public colleges and universities to pay tuition to earn a scholarship to receive a loan to lie in the hands of each local school district to be governed by a school board national curriculum to guide school instruction to set general policies for the school district to meet state guidelines elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools to be composed of students in kindergarten and grades 1-5 to attend kindergarten to begin 1st grade at age six to be composed of students in grades 6-8 to contain grades 9-12 a wide variety of courses in English, mathematics, science, and social science to be required to take foreign language or physical education to elect to take music, art, or theatre courses to offer vocational training courses to be one semester or two semesters in length the academic year to be compulsory for all students until ages sixteen to eighteen depending on the individual state high school graduates to graduate at the age of seventeen or eighteen-years-old to pass all of the required courses the grading scale to fail a required course to repeat the course to be enrolled for an undergraduate degree to have the option of attending a two-year community college to apply to a four-year university admission to community college a high/low tuition to transfer up to two years of course credits to a university admission policies to vary from one university to the next to determine admission based on several criteria a student’s high school course of study a student’s accumulated grades university admissions officers applications from high school students to participate in extracurricular activities voluntary participation to learn valuable life lessons teamwork, leadership, civic responsibility write an essay as part of the application process admissions office to determine the length and content of the essay an applicant to have a personal interview with a representative from the admissions office to pursue a Bachelor’s /a Master’s / Doctoral degree degree a graduate student to attend university a liberal education to take courses across several disciplines to specialize in a major field of study one’s major (field of study) to be one semester long to be assigned a number of credit hours to be 1, 2, 4 or 5 credits (about a course) to complete a minimum number of credit hours before graduation to require students to write a final thesis admission to a graduate program to be based on several criteria completion of a Bachelor’s degree the student’s undergraduate coursework to be expected to write an essay as part of their application Master’s programs to have a minimum score on (an examination) to test verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills to take a course at the graduate level to earn enough credit hours to attempt one’s qualifying examinations to pass one’s qualifying exams to be advanced to candidacy to write one’s dissertation to be given a degree a completed dissertation to be orally defended before the candidate’s faculty committee | ноябрь |
| ТЕМА 3: Illnesses and their Treatment | Опорный текст 7: Challenge to live a hundred to stay healthy to keep fit the doctor’s prescription approved medical treatment health foods vitamin pills keep-fit books and videos to live to a hundred a keep-fit fanatic a non-smoker a teetotaler to be very detailed about what one eats to languish in bed in plaster healthy lifestyle to acquire a (broken wrist) (not) to be just a matter of a good diet and plenty of exercise to be harmful (to one’s health) a jogger to eat the right food to become an obsession to overwork to afford one’s membership of a (health) club health food a few holidays in peaceful and healthy places Опорный текст 8: Examination Fever to be allergic to allergy a history of (diseases) in a school a case of (a disease) to prove (very) contagious/catching to suffer a mild attack of (influenza) to give (a disease) to the others to spread rather rapidly a serious outbreak of (a disease or medical condition) infectious to catch (a disease) from somebody a chronic case of (a disease, e. g. traumatic brain injury) to be down with ( a disease) to reach epidemic proportions to suffer from (a disease) amnesia to make a total recovery to develop into a touch of to have a sudden fit of (a disease or a condition, e.g. weakness) a terminal disease a convalescence and recuperation period Опорный текст 9: What Seems to be the problem? not to have been feeling well recently/not to be feeling very well to get out of breath very easily (when one climbs stairs or walks short distances) to get pains in one’s chest to break the habit to cut down on the amount of … you (eat) eating habits to put on weight to be a little overweight to tend to drive everywhere (because of one’s job) to be out of condition to take some regular exercise to take up jogging to lose some weight to go on a diet to cut out fatty foods to cut out drinking completely (for the next few months) to change one’s lifestyle to be in trouble That’s easier said than done What seems to be the problem? to stay up late at night studying to pass out to come round (after a few seconds) to feel a bit off colour to get splitting headaches to burn the candle at both ends to be overdoing it to be overtired to take it easy for a while to get enough sleep to have a few early nights to be absolutely worn out at the end of the day to eat regular meals to be (a bit) run down to write out a prescription for some extra iron and vitamins to come back in a couple of weeks to feel a bit under the weather Опорный текст 10: National Health Service in Great Britain put time, money and energy into keeping well and keeping fit go to see your GP a GP (a general practitioner, or family doctor) to write a prescription for somebody to take to a chemist’s or pharmacy to have to pay to see your doctor to have to pay part of the cost of your medicine to get one’s medicine free to be over (sixty) to be expecting a baby to see a specialist doctor to have medical tests or an operation, to send somebody to a hospital to be part of the NHS (the National Health Service) NHS hospital treatment to provide free medical care for everyone in Britain from the very young to the very old to provide free visits to doctors and dentists, free treatment, free prescriptions, free eye tests and free glasses to have to pay for prescriptions for eye tests and glasses and for trips to the dentist. one of the highest levels of (heart disease) in the Western world to have a very high level of cancer to have to wait a long time before one can see a specialist or have an operation. to see private doctors to use other kinds of treatment to use alternative medicine (like reflexology , homeopathy and acupuncture) not to hurt at all alternative medical practitioners to stay healthy to eat well to have a longer and healthier life to raise life expectancy on average to live to the age of … to live to … to reach the age of 100 | декабрь |
WATCHING A VIDEO
- Watch the video and write 10 comprehension questions.
- There are a few phrases highlighted (in bold type). Highlight ten more usepul phrases related to the topic of teaching.
- Make a translation exercise (from Russian into English) for your fellow students with the given phrases. Use Classroom English from the website Englishhobby.ru.
- Do five-minute teaching in the classroom with the exercise you have prepared.
Script for the video ‘10 Habits of Successful Teachers’ Hi everyone! Welcome back to my channel! My name is Amanda Rose, if you are new. Hi! I am a high school, social studies, teacher in Brooklyn, New York, and if you are returning, thanks for coming back to another video. Now today I wanted to share with you guys 10 habits that I think make successful teachers or maybe like 10 characteristics of successful teachers. Now I am totally making this list by like my own observation by the people in my school or maybe the friends that I know that I would deem as successful teachers. And so, by no means, did I like go and research you know all of these teachers from different schools in different countries like it’s not that kind of thing. It’s just what I have observed and what I’ve noticed with the people around me that I believe are successful teachers and what I have measured that by is how they build relationships with their students, their standardized testing scores and just their ability to be innovative and creative. I think that altogether the success of their classroom as a whole it’s pretty much how I have based these 10 things, and so I want to go through them quickly because there are a lot and I don’t want to make this video too long. Let’s get into it. 1. First one: successful teachers are consistent. Now when I say consistent I mean consistent in every aspect. They’re consistent in their grading. They’re consistent in their feedback. They’re consistent in their classroom management. They’re consistent in the way that they just run their ‘operation’ when it comes to teaching. Consistency is totally key. Everything about the word. ‘consistency, that’s how I think most teachers are successful. It is that they are just consistent. 2. Two: successful teachers are open to change. Now there is always a saying or this expectation or this assumption that when someone is teaching for a really long time they don’t want to explore new ideas and they are kind of ‘stuck in their ways’ and I think that this could apply to anything not just in teaching I think a lot of people can kind of just get stuck in their ways, even in the everyday routine of life. And so that can also be applied to your job. But I’ve seen that the most successful teachers are open to change. They’re open to try new things, new ideas. They’re willing to go back to the drawing board and figure out why something didn’t work. They’re willing to try new activities. They’re willing to listen to other people’s input and give other things a try. Now I’m not saying that if you are an expert and you are teaching something for such a long time and you know what’s best. I agree with that but I think there is a healthy balance with being open to new ideas and the teachers that I have seen that are the most successful are open to new ideas because they allow creativity in and when you allow creativity in, I think it opens up a world of possibilities for what can happen in the classroom. So most of the teachers that I have found that are successful are open to change. 3. Number three: they never stop learning. This is also one of my tips in another one of my videos, but the teachers that I know, that I look up to, they know so much, they’re constantly learning. They’re learning about race issues. They’re learning about economic inequality. They’re learning about indigenous people. They’re learning about the system. They’re learning about the government. They’re learning about their students. They’re learning about the communities that they teach. For me those are the most successful people where they’re not trying to teach out of this textbook idea or this theology. They are genuinely interested in learning about the people around them, interested in learning about their content and then again willing to change the way that they teach because that includes, or that incorporates, the best learning environment for their students. And so definitely that’s number three: they never stop learning. 4. Four: successful teachers make content engaging. I have seen a lot of teachers continue to have the same approach with their students, and things don’t work, and instead of continually trying to push this method or this way that you think is successful you have to really think about the students and think about what is engaging for them. Now is this difficult? Yes. Does it take more time? Yes. Does it take a lot more planning? Yes. But ultimately you have to think of ways to make your lessons engaging and the only way you really know that is by building relationships with your students and knowing what it is that they like and, you know, take this ‘with a grain of salt’. I’m not saying that if you have a really cool idea and you want to do it in the classroom but you don’t think your students will like it, don’t do it. You also have to its ‘trial and error’ right. You won’t really know unless you try it. But you have to think of ways to make lessons engaging. Switch it up, be different, don’t just possibly present information or provide lessons in the same way if you want them to be engaging to your students. 5. Five: successful teachers have clear learning objectives. If you’ve ever had a conversation with the teacher that you admire that you know is like killing it in the classroom, they have such a targeted objective they know. I want my students to grasp this and so because this is the goal I’ve created a B C and D to get us here. They are so targeted and oftentimes I think this is where a lot of new teachers may fall off is because I get it new teachers are just you’re trying to stay afloat and you’re trying to like juggle so many pieces you’re kind of like in that boat that has like a million holes and you’re trying to like stick your fingers and all the holes so you don’t drown. I totally get it, but a lot of times we can lose sight of the learning objective. And successful teachers have clear learning objectives they’re 100% targeted and everything that happens in their lesson is to move them forward towards the learning objective and that is a skill it takes time to master that, but those are definitely the ones that I think are the most successful. 6. Six: they reflect on their teaching. Often I remember when I first got into education I had like a journal that I would write down all of the things that had happened during that day whether it be conflict with a student if I saw that with my assessment my student at least half of them didn’t give me the responses that I had anticipated, you have to reflect then. You have to think about why, why did that happen and how can I make this better in my opinion. it’s not really a good idea to just keep moving forward less than after the lesson. At the lesson you have to reflect and you have to see like what strategies are working and what isn’t working so that you can meet the needs of your students most effectively and reflecting on your teaching often it takes time but this is how you build your craft right. You assess what wasn’t right and then you try to fix it and oftentimes you’re gonna have to assess a lot of things that weren’t right you’re gonna have to fix a lot of things. That’s natural, normal. It happens to all of us. You don’t really know what needs to be adjusted until you’re actually teaching, but, again, in my opinion, the ones that have been the most successful are the ones that reflect on their teaching often. 7. Seven: successful teachers aren’t afraid to ask for help. Now I have seen (I think this applies again a lot too when you are new to the profession) so much of teaching can make you feel isolated because you don’t want to feel like a failure and so you feel like you really do have to like to solve every issue on your own and you feel like you don’t want people to know that you’re not doing a good job because maybe you don’t want to be on your admins radar. Or maybe you don’t want people coming in and out of your room and starting to feel like a target. You know these are real things that can happen when you’re a teacher and I think that those are really it’s a really scary mindset to have you want to feel comfortable being able to ask for help maybe again if there’s a teacher that you admire someone who’s also teaching your content area and you love their approach and you love their style definitely reach out to them ask for advice. That was one of the best things that I did in my couple of years of teaching and it’s things that I still do now like ‘Hey, I’m having an issue with this particular class like this group of Students, all my other classes are fine, but when these students are together I’m having a really hard time with classroom management. What do you do when you’ve had these kids?’ I ask for help constantly when I want to create an essay assignment and I feel like I’m struggling with creating an outline for the kids I reached out to my English teachers, my English teacher friends and they helped me out. It is so wise to ask for help right we would say ask for help in every in any other area of our lives if we were struggling how much more in your career. So definitely reach out and ask for help. 8.. Number eight: successful teachers are organized. Now I think the word ‘organized’ is very broad. I think successful teachers can be organized in many different ways. I think, for me, I’m very organized with my physical space in my classroom, but when it comes to my like laptop for example, I had to see someone else’s laptop and be like “Wow, you’re organized!’ Every single unit by a folder and then every single lesson by that and this is how you title them and this is how you label everything and then even your worksheets are labeled — your powerpoints and then it was like ‘Whoa that is a whole nother level of organization!’ But that teacher has set herself up for the future where it’s easy to find things, things don’t get lost if a student needs something. If you need to send them the PowerPoint every single thing is labeled and it’s organized and it makes sense and so two years ago when I saw that I tried or I started not try it I started to organize my laptop. I still have to do that. That’s actually something I should be doing right now during this quarantine but organizing all of your work so that it’s easy to find, so just being organized whether it be your physical space, whether it be your computer, whether it be the way that you organize well, this bin is for makeup work, this bin is for work that I need to give back, this bin is for work that I need to grade. Organization on some level is necessary. 9.. Number nine: successful teachers don’t stay defeated. Obviously right how can you be successful if you stay defeated? Those two words are opposite of each 1:05 other and so all this is saying is you’re going to experience moments where you feel defeated, where you feel like you have been a failure. I have experienced that I think any teacher that you talk to will have said that they experienced that or felt like they were never doing enough, you get a really bad observation and you just feel defeated but the goal is to not give up and again that’s with any part of life and so these are just skills that you’re applying to your career as ones who are successful is that they they see the defeat, they assess or they reflect on what happened and then they move forward to make those changes and then they are consistent. Okay, so all of these habits work together like a well-oiled machine and then the last thing definitely not least successful teachers put their students first point-blank successful teachers put their students first and all of these ideas are connected to this number one goal when you have your students in mind you can think of targeted lessons when you have your students in mind then you can say well wait a second if this is the target my students would probably anticipate this so how do I remove this misconception how do I try to avoid this so that we can get here like you’re always thinking about them and how they may approach something and how they can reach their biggest potential in your classroom you have to put your students firm then it’s also a lot easier to create engaging learning activities when you think about your students. Successful teachers think about their students and that is the driving force for everything else that they do. Again at least the ones that I have observed and the ones that I have grown to love and admire and strive to be like in my own teaching practice as well and so that’s pretty much it I hope that you guys enjoyed this video my observation of ten habits of successful teachers and I hope to see you guys in the next one.
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