The profile of present day student has changed considerably. They are more confident and less fearful. They may not have sound knowledge of fundamentals but they are very comfortable and familiar with modern gadgets.
As far as the first part of the question, a teacher should feel responsible for teaching the fundamentals correctly, and should PREPARE intensely. (S)he doesn't have to teach everything, but, teach a small portion correctly. This only comes with PREPARATION, PREPARATION, and PREPARATION.
As far as the second part of your question: Everybody is different. We all have our PASSIONs, and we all have things we see as a JOB. If you are passionate about something you are teaching, you will try to do your best. We can only improve ourselves, if we are passionate about something. Otherwise, it's a JOB !
7 years ago, I taught a class that was a part of my job description, and I really didn't FEEL IT in my bones ! I put together some notes and a curriculum. The notes were pretty good, so, there was a BODY, but no soul !!!
The student-teacher contact is a very personal contact. The diffusion of knowledge is not only through WORDS and TECHNICAL CONTENT, but also, ENERGY, and ENTHUSIASM.
My take on it: If you are not totally passionate about what you are teaching, you are not doing yourself or the students a favor. If you are passionate about it, the students will forgive some gaps in the knowledge, to a point ... They'll take what you can give them, and you can keep learning more as you teach.
Try to search information about what is known as "disruptive learning process" in oposition to the clasical way in learning. Some "gurus" have published interesting papers.
And why you did not specify some educational topics (Education, Teaching...)?
In such an environment whereby your students are much mature and confident the model of teach/learn should become a model in which the role of the teacher becomes not to teach but rather to manage the learning process by the students. We move from teacher centric to student centric eduction. The teacher is no more the sole source of wisdom. Hence, it is not about how much the teacher knows about the subject that he teaches but rather about the capability of helping the students learn what should they learn. The art they need to perfect is the art of switching on and maintaining an interactive student centric learning environment rather than to excel in teaching. Thanks. @AlDmour
Yes, Sridhar, ET/education technology is basic for innovative learning environment in which the students can learn in interactive and collaborative ways. The teacher can provide for these tools and let the students learn with his support and him as a facilitator for learning. Much of the current research showed that the use of ET tools has positive impacts on students learning. This is in line with basics of education in which learning can be attained through doing more than watching and hearing. Thanks. @AlDmour.
As far as the first part of the question, a teacher should feel responsible for teaching the fundamentals correctly, and should PREPARE intensely. (S)he doesn't have to teach everything, but, teach a small portion correctly. This only comes with PREPARATION, PREPARATION, and PREPARATION.
As far as the second part of your question: Everybody is different. We all have our PASSIONs, and we all have things we see as a JOB. If you are passionate about something you are teaching, you will try to do your best. We can only improve ourselves, if we are passionate about something. Otherwise, it's a JOB !
7 years ago, I taught a class that was a part of my job description, and I really didn't FEEL IT in my bones ! I put together some notes and a curriculum. The notes were pretty good, so, there was a BODY, but no soul !!!
The student-teacher contact is a very personal contact. The diffusion of knowledge is not only through WORDS and TECHNICAL CONTENT, but also, ENERGY, and ENTHUSIASM.
My take on it: If you are not totally passionate about what you are teaching, you are not doing yourself or the students a favor. If you are passionate about it, the students will forgive some gaps in the knowledge, to a point ... They'll take what you can give them, and you can keep learning more as you teach.
If you want to grasp the basics of a given field, you need to learn them obviously. However teaching them grants you a new perspective and creates the requirement to tackle a problem from a new angle - usually by inquiry of students.
The lectures I give are constantly adapted to the experience I make during class, where I realize certain things are not well understood, I need to work more with examples, simulations, etc.
A joke about how teachers give qualifications to students' examinations, the Spanish usual system is zero to ten, zero being the worse, says: '10 for God, 9 for the one who taught me, 8 for me, and 7 for an student that tells me somethig I didn't know'
10 and 9 are 'sobresaliente', 8 and 7 are 'notable', 6 and 5 are 'aprobado' and 4 to 0, 'suspenso'
When taking an examination, I heard one of the professionals watching the examination room, discussing about one of the questions, saying the other: 'Its not fair trying that students solve your doubts'
There are also some literatura about leadership and organization of the teaching groups, I would suggest:
- Management of organizational behavior, P. Hersey, K.H. Blanchard, D.E. Johnson, Pearson Education Limited, 2013.
- Fundamentals of organizational behaviour. Stephen P. Robbins, Pearson Education Limited, 2004.
- The leader of the future. F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, Leader to leader institute, 2006.
- Liderazgo y motivación de equipos de trabajo. Mª Teresa Palomo, ESIC, 2008.
Happily or sadly I am learning more and more while teaching. I believe that every subject and its contents have a deep rooted philosophy behind it. One may call it the thread of knowledge, over which details are collected and added.To get into the root cause takes considerable time and for the genius it could be instantaneous. When this thread of knowledge is painstakingly understood and passed on to the eager students it becomes a very improved form of teaching which motivates both.
You are referring to content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, what do you know and what do you know about how to teach it. Having taught subjects I was not well prepared in, I can attest to how important knowing the subject is - really knowing it well. Knowing the art of teaching a particular content area is also important - there is specialized knowledge that goes into teaching about biochemical pathways or a golf swing. I would not want to learn biochemistry from a golf pro or a golf swing from a biochemist. Both know their field well and how to teach what they know, that knowledge may not cross over well.
All teachers had been students of the past. Not all of them had aspired to be a teacher one day. There are very intelligent students and lesser ones also who had become teachers. There are also the very expressive ones but not very intelligent. There are many subjects which are not routine as a swing of the golf club or just a complicated process, but are very wide in scope and general where even a knowledgeable teacher struggles leave alone catering to the ever changing examination systems. Also all the jobs, assignments etc offered to a teacher are not to the teachers liking, but based on the current requirements of the state of art existing. Also the probability of a correct person getting fitted in the right slot is not high. With all this a right, enthusiastic and honest teacher will always learn while teaching and keep improving with the tides of time.
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