Today’s quotes and reflection are on Teaching.
“I touch the future. I teach.”
Christa McAuliffe
Working in schools as a teacher, principal and superintendent for over 25 years, I have found that all great teachers have certain common traits:
1. They believe all children can succeed.
2. They keep tutoring and supporting a child when everyone else gives up.
3. They never ridicule or tease students.
4. Their dedication to teaching comes before money, ego, status and sometimes sleep.
5. They work weekends, nights and summers to create the perfect learning opportunities.
6. They set high expectations for all students.
7. They focus on the individual child’s needs.
8. They integrate art, music, gardening and fitness into the core curriculum.
9. They are positive and goal driven with their own lives.
10. They praise students often.
“Teachers must think for themselves if they are to help others think for themselves.”
Carnegie Corporation
“The good teacher…discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart.”
Stephen Neill
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
Horace Mann
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