25 Tips to be an
Effective Teacher
1. Have eagle
sight to improve your reach and thus reach students with difficulties and
successful students. Never compare and keep in mind that no student is the
same.
2. Look for the
perfect way to maintain a good relationship with the family. As Jose Antonio
Marina says: "to educate we need the whole tribe".
3. Read about the
best teaching techniques, try to put them into practice, and if they do not
work you can combine them with your own experience. Many of the education
theorists were never in a classroom.
4. Daily
encourages students to investigate new discoveries at home and share the class
5. Incorporate
music at specific times. Make a deal with your students so they know how to
concentrate with ambient sound. "evil eye", nothing to put this heavy metal song that
you like so much in your personal life.
6. Challenge your
students to go beyond their usual reach. For this it is important to know one
by one.
7. Incorporate
what I call "homework in your world". Do not be fooled, when they get
home, they usually pick up the tablet or laptop to entangle. If you create an
online platform for them to do their homework, it may not seem like an arduous
task and you can get them to review in a "playful" way what they see
throughout the morning in class.
8. Try to
introduce the new techniques of gamification in the classroom and above all
reward a great attempt.
9. Experience in
the classroom what a classmate told you that worked with your students. It does
not have to work with yours, but it is okay to try and evaluate the results.
10. You must be
able to create a global perspective on children to make them feel like world
citizens.
11. Encourage a
lot of questions, you do not have to know how to answer all, but have all the
students feel part of a team of reporters who have to give answers to all your
questions. Perhaps you can draw conclusions from all.
12. Make the
students themselves feel their progress. For example, show them how bad they
wrote at the beginning of the notebook and how little by little, thanks to
their effort, they write better. There is no doubt that he will leave the
school telling his mom.
13. Give your
students all the tools to succeed in life. This is somewhat related to Basic
Competencies. There are some things we usually overlook in the classroom due to
lack of time. For me one of them is the oratory. Have your students speak in
front of the rest of the class, even if they tell what they did on the weekend.
You can not tolerate seeing university students who are afraid to submit work
in class and that we can cure it from a very young age.
14. Always smile,
always and always. It is difficult, but for this you can help try to sleep the
necessary. You are the captain or captain of the boat. If you are not 100% your
sailors either.
15. Make a
pineapple with the team of teachers of your school. It is impossible to ask for
cooperative work for your students if you do not do it yourself.
16. Take care of
your voice. To all we miss some little voice from time to time, to deny it, but
it is worth remembering that you should not raise your voice as this will help
you to keep control of your classroom and of course your most important work
tool.
17. Do not be
discouraged if you do not see immediate progress and encourage students in the
long run. Education and patience always go hand in hand.
18. Grow with
your class. The students have a lot to teach you every day. You are not the
only sage in the class.
19. Anchor your
lessons in your world. It is not worth teaching different ecosystems to a child
if you do not relate it to your nearest environment. The palpable or visible is
much more understandable than imaginable.
20. Maintain your
energy level to be one hundred percent throughout the morning. To do this
select a good schedule, within the possibilities, makes your energy and that of
your students are not exhausted.
21. Find the key
to each student's success and use those subjects or lessons where he or she
knows best to encourage you.
22. Not all
learning is looking in our thinking box. Therefore have the student move,
manipulate, sing and even laugh. Some learning occurs when we are not thinking
about learning.
23. Allows
students to express themselves through the arts.
24. Use your
rubber to erase everything a student did wrong the day before. It is convenient
to relate the lessons from one day to another, but never the behaviors of
children, but without wanting to end up tagging.
25. Less talking
and more listening. Some teachers talk so much that children end up getting
bored. It's understandable. When you notice that you are moving from talking,
to the car and let the students speak to express their opinions.
