Joe Booker

 

               According to an article by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, a high qualified teacher is defined as having teaching experience, teacher content knowledge, and teacher certification as a proxy for pedagogical knowledge, teacher salary, and the teacher’s attainment of a master degree.  While this is what the article stated, there are many different opinions and stances on this topic. A qualified teacher shouldn’t be based on experience they have, it should be based on productivity and how students react to the teachings. Good teaching makes children not only learn the material, but also makes them better people. A good teacher should be caring, motivating, and engaging. High qualified teachers should have more than a few years of experience and a strong grasp of the content and knowledge needed to teach the core academic subjects traditional teaching certificates such as a masters or higher. The NCLB limits the definition of teacher quality to 3 aspects of teaching; a bachelor’s degree, content knowledge, and based on assessment of content knowledge and a background check, a traditional or alternative teaching certificate, it is important to examine whether in fact the current definition of highly qualified teacher captures all that it means to be a highly qualified teacher.

A teacher is the single most influential determinate of increased student achievement; Because of this qualified teacher should possess experience, the only way you can be good at something is practice, the more you teach the better you will be at teaching. By teaching you figure out what does and doesn’t work, which makes you better qualified because you know what to do and what not to do. To meet the requirements established by the no child left behind act, they should make the opportunity available to get alternative certificates. These certificates provide knowledge to teachers so they are able to produce sufficient results on standardize tests. Students from rural or urban schools are at a disadvantage because of the lack of teaching but the no child left behind act is pushing unqualified teachers to be more qualified. Overall I believe that instead of focusing on what a qualified teacher is, we should help the teachers in the rural and urban schools because they need the most support, because they are not all officially qualified. This will help the no child left behind act be more efficient by helping the students who need education the most.

Joe Booker

 

Teachers can use the research that has been found to better themselves as teachers. Many ideas and philosophies are common sense and there is no research that needs to be done but there is no research that needs to be done but there are others that don’t come so obvious. By knowing the best techniques it will let teachers be the most efficient they can be while teaching. Teachers and researchers can collaborate by teachers figuring out the problems and having the researchers can find the solution and new techniques that work. Teachers also can be the researchers, teachers are in the learning environment and they can use their skills to see how the students learn best. I would assume that most of the research that has been done on teaching have been from the people actually doing the teaching. Teachers learn all the techniques and philosophies from trial and error in the experiences of the classroom.  The only way to truly know how to teach children is to learn from the children themselves.

Good teaching does matter

Good teaching does make a difference. Good teachers not only have an effect on your learning experience but also your life. Good teachers don't have one way of doing things they are constantly learning and trying to figure out the best way for each individual group of students to learn best. Good teachers make the difficult and jumbled material and makes it easy to understand and organized for the students. Good teachers have a high sense of efficacy. Good teachers have a high energy levels that makes students want to be involved in the class. Good teachers make each students learning experience more personal. The only was to assess effective teaching is assessing the students. If students are comprehending the material  and becoming better people in the process then  that teacher is effective. When I was in 6th and 7th grade social studies was my worst class I thought it was boring and didn't need it the rest of my life so why did I have to learn it now? In 8th grade social studies there was a new teacher, Mr. Rosen and he changed my view on social studies completely. He  took an interest in us as people not just students. He made everyone in each one of his classes to participate with his high energy level. He made class fun he made class a time to look forward to in your day. That year I got straights A's in social studies and decided I wanted to become a social studies teacher. A good teacher can change your whole perspective and Mr. Rosen is a good teacher.