- Teaching is not a science, it is an art, and should be treated as such.
- Students are not customers (“persons who buy”) – they are clients (“persons who seek the advice of a professional man or woman”).
- “Good learning experience” means mastering something new and advanced. To help his/her students, a university teacher has to be able to transform and restructure highly complex material from his/her subject area into a form suitable and accessible to the learners.
- This cannot be achieved without teachers being experts in their disciplines.
- Successful and inspirational teaching is a highly individual skill. The choice of teaching methods should reflect not only specifics of the target audience, but also the experience, teaching philosophy and individual psychophysiological characteristics of the teacher.
- Structuring of the learning environment, choice of teaching and assessment methods have to be subject specific.
- Values, standards, criteria of assessment in learning and teaching have to originate in, and be set by, the professional academic communities of their particular subject areas.
- The role of managers is to create an environment which helps professional standards to be maintained; however, managers should not interfere in setting the standards.
Nice.
Thanks for sharing.
Many teachers take teaching as a business and they don’t enjoy teaching.
They should learn from this post.
By: science and math on January 3, 2011
at 8:30 am
At some point, I have compiled a short list of reasons why I get a lot of satisfaction from teaching a math circle. I love:
-the equality and feeling of mutual respect and attention that develops between me and math circle participants
-the democracy/lack of authority that shows us the “right answer”
-seeing the value alignment and deep intellectual friendship that develops among the participants
-sharing children’s excitement when they realize their own powers
-the feeling of freedom they develop when they get rid of their own mental blocks
-the intellectual stimulation of choosing the problems and personalizing and teaching them to a particular audience
-when children realize that they feel happy from doing a challenging job
-observing their self-discovery
-observing as children come up with amazing solutions and counter-intuitive discoveries
-getting a fresh view of the beauty and awesomeness of the world we observe and create – thus multiplying my own happiness
By: Julia Brodsky on January 25, 2014
at 5:20 am
Your ethos sounds good to me. I have been teaching in Engineering for about six years now working with FE and HE students and its great to hear some one confirming many of my own thoughts.
By: topsl on January 3, 2016
at 9:08 pm