journal 2

Getting Ready for the Classroom

      I must say that I very much like this topic as it is related to our future life. We are future teachers so we should know how to get ready for the classroom. I have learned lots of things from most of our courses and I hope I will use this knowledge my future career. Firstly, teaching as an art and a science. There is an argument that teachers are born not made; however, teaching is a science and can be taught.  For me both of them are true. I mean, some people are born with the ability of just to teach or help people and also they are successful of it. However, there are people who like to teach but not so successful, and in my opinion they can learn how to teach an effective way and can be successful. Above all of this, teaching is a complex and challenging profession. Moreover, generally there is belief that teachers who are warm and who loves the students are more effective teachers than teachers who are lack of those characters. To being warm and having love towards students are important things for being an effective teacher but it is not enough. In addition, teachers should encourage students to being active and to use active techniques such as real-world experiments. In shortly, as it is mentioned in the several courses, effectiveness depends on the subject, students, and environmental conditions. I can give examples in my own learning and teaching experiences. When we were in high school we did not listen to the topics which we did not interested in or we did not want to learn how to work with computers as there were not new versions of computers. When I went to teach students in our community service lesson some of them did not want to learn English as they do not have enough internal and external love or need so this kind of things can be huge problems for teachers. However, effective teachers can change students’ ideas in a good side by planning enjoyable activities, setting clear goals, treating all students fairly and equally, having positive expectations, and having responsibility.

     To sum up, as I mentioned before our courses which we are taking in our department will be very useful when we become a teacher, and also, I hope we can be an effective teachers in the future, because we are learning or reading the effective teachers characteristics.