[TPIN] "teaching"...or lack thereof

[Clyde E. Hunt]

I have always maintained that as a classroom teacher:

"For 10% of my students, I was a "super teacher"....for 80% of my 
students, I was a 'good' teacher......and for 10% of my students I was a 
'lousy'  teacher'.

When you evaluate a teacher's effectiveness, you must,  of necessity,  
evaluate his/her students' ability and desire to learn!  It's amazing to 
me that this relationship so often seems to be ignored when issuing 
"teacher evaluations".

Clyde Hunt



Scott, Donald M. wrote:

>A couple of observations that I have not seen contributed to this discussion:
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>Teaching and "being a teacher" are different things;  or. to say it another way, there are bad "teachers". good teachers and REALLY GREAT teachers.  There's more to teaching than just standing in front of a captive audience of students and distributing pearls of wisdom,  just as there's more to good trumpet playing than just sitting in the chair and covering the notes.
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>Also, in my view, there's a large difference between "teaching" and learning.  A teacher cannot put knowledge or skills into someone else's head -- students must learn, individually.  I think of "teaching" as a matter of coaching and motivating the student to develop his/her own skills and knowledge base, and to go about it in the right way.
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>Don Scott
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>Jazz Club - n. A place where people pay a lot of money not to listen to jazz, most of which does not go to the musicians to whom they are not listening.
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