THE QUALITY

TEACHING
An Initiative towards harnessing Skills.
THE MORNING SCENARIO
 Some students enter school ready
to learn most days. Others arrive
distracted, hungry and unsettled.
An effective teacher does
whatever possible to create
conditions that engage the full
spectrum of students, but it is not
always possible to counter the
negative currents and influences
contributed by a harsh or
disturbing external culture.
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
 Effective teachers engage in daily match-
making, creating conditions to promote
learning and connecting tasks with
students, giving them what they need to
be successful while nurturing the process
and minimizing obstacles. The best
teachers customize lessons so that each
student is afforded opportunities that
match needs, interests, preferences and
skill levels.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Increase your magic.
 Understand the young ones.
 Look for good routines.
 Avoid heroics.
 Take breaks- rest….. Pace yourself.
 Ask for help, for ideas, for tricks.
 Question.
 Add one strategy each week.
 Focus.
 Project like a champion- have faith.
 Lose weight- shed the nonsense.
 Eat well- feed yourself on good ideas.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Increase your magic.
 The success of a teacher depends to some extent
upon magic and alchemy - the ability to do some
or all of the following:
 Spark learning
 Cast spells
 Awaken thirst
 Captivate
 Charm
 Delight
 Disarm
 Deliver
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Understand the young ones.

Effective teachers work very hard to

understand who the students really are,
to uncover their hopes, fears, wishes,
dreams and trials in order to get to the
heart of the matter. By personalizing
the classroom and the search for
meaning, they win loyalty, commitment,
interest and effort.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Look for good routines.

 We should honor the value of good

routines and support those
teachers who see the value in
refreshing , enhancing and
augmenting their routines.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Take breaks- rest….. Pace yourself.
 Teaching is a bit like running a marathon.
Pacing is essential. In order to replenish,
recover and restore the reserves necessary to
fuel passionate teaching, teachers must learn
to coast, rest and take advantage of plateaus.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Ask for help, for ideas, for tricks.
 Fellowship can play a major role in

validating one's worth as a teacher

during the toughest moments but it can
do more than that. Just as partners and
ropes permit rock climbers to scale
seemingly impossible peaks, team
support can give teachers the lift they
need to reach optimal levels of
performance.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Question.
 When we stop questioning, we stop learning and growing.
 As a matter of fact, questions are the tools that enable
the following to thrive:
 Wondering

 Considering

 Predicting

 Challenging

 Testing

 Probing

 Stretching

 Inventing
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Add one strategy each week.
 Quality teaching amounts to a lifetime
journey of exploration, practice and
discovery.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Focus.
 Qualityis enhanced by digging down deeply into
particular aspects of performance rather than
spreading oneself thin and emerging as
dilettante, dabbler and piddler.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Project like a champion- have faith.
 Have faith
 Encourage
 Model
 Inspire
 Challenge
 Reach
 Extend
 Defy
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Lose weight- shed the nonsense.
The goal is to eliminate all but the
worthy, the promising and the effective.
 EXPLORING THE ART OF TEACHING
 Eat well- feed yourself on good ideas.
 Itis all about avoiding empty calories and feasting
on ideas that are lean and nurturing at the same
time.
 Feed yourself on good ideas.
 Establish and maintain a robust flow of promising
concepts, strategies and techniques.
 Go far afield in search of novelty.
 Balance novelty with bread and butter basics.