Teaching Feedback from a Veteran Teacher: A response

Teaching Feedback from a Veteran Teacher

While reading this mini article from Melissa Kelly interviewing a veteran teacher, a lot of questions came to mind. Which level he was teaching? How many years of experience he had? What subject matter he was teaching?

His advice appears very simple. I am sure that there are a lot of things to consider before starting to lead a class successfully. I believe that teachers need to be consistent in their own rules and content. Also, I consider it very necessary and important to listen to others who have more experience in the area, and adopt the good ideas like, not yelling at the students but writing larger on the board to ensure that every body can get the instructions. In the future, I would take the same philosophy of not yelling but instead writing larger and I would adopt creative computer programs to promote a better classroom setting where the students feel more interested in the content and less distracted.

Another advice that I would keep in mind is about the short and simple surprise quizzes. I think this is a very sharp strategy in which the students can feel challenged and in future times more motivated to follow instructions and pay attention.

I still believing that this little interview could be more completed if our veteran teacher give us some tips dealing with behavior or school policies like when students come late and misbehave, and or how teachers must handle all the referrals.

After reading this section, I had to open other links that provided me more information about what to do in order to succeed in the class room. I think being consistent and knowing our students better and establish wide communication with parents would help enormously.