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

[DVTheob at aol.com]

My two daughters have gone into teaching, and I have this theory that if a  
teacher can some how motivate the student, 99% of the teaching is done and now  
your task is to give good and proper direction to their learning and 
encourage  to keep the motivation in place!! I am not a teacher, but am playing the 
trumpet  today because I had a teacher that motivated me and kept the "carrot" 
out there  until I was over the hump so to speak! I teach a boys S.S. class and 
boy does it  work well there!! But on the flip side, it is disheartening when 
you are unable  to motivate!!
                        Dan T. 
 
            In a  message dated 9/11/2007 9:50:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
clyde at bflatmusic.com  writes:

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








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