1.5 Your Teaching Values
Take 5 minutes to write 5-10 teaching principles into your toolbox. Keep your notes short, organized, and to the point.
Essential Question: Thinking about the teachers you have had and your goals as a teacher, what values or principles are important to bring into your teaching to benefit students and build more impactful teacher-student relationships?
This text area is for scratch notes only. This website does not save your work, so all formal writing should be done in a savable app like Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or Apple Notes, and eventually uploaded into your toolbox.
Complete your own brainstorming before looking at the example below. The value of this exercise comes from thinking it through yourself first.
What was effective?
- Inquisitive questions that encouraged conversation and self-teaching
- Guided problem solving with fearless experimentation
- Open-ended structure with responsive listening
- Imitation: student of teacher, and teacher of student
- Professional but with a good sense of humor and perspective
- Honest but encouraging
What was ineffective?
- Talking “at” me
- Pre-planned and inflexible
- “I” teaching: “My way or the highway”
- Stiff and overly hierarchical
- Put-downs and shaming