Get Your Students Hired
Do yourself a favor and avoid these common teaching traps
1- Aiming To Be Buddies With your Students
2- Being Too Easy On Discipline
3- Not Setting Up Proper Organization From The Start
4- Getting Involved In Campus Politics
5- Working Too Hard And Burning Out
6- Not Asking For Help
Hi Chanelle,
Mistakes are bound to happen them, accept them, learn from them, and move on.
Patricia Scales
I would say that my best mistake is allowing anxiety to overtake me. Once that happens all of my planning goes out of the window. I have learned to take a deep breath and take my time and it falls into place. If a mistake is made then I make sure to apologize and make the correction immediately.
I feel that I have made some common first-time mistakes already but then I sit back and allow myself a little slack since I just started teaching in a college setting in June, 2011. I took the information in the first 4 ED courses to heart and have tried to model myself after the great teachers I had here. I found that when I made a mistake with my last class, I 'fessed up and it really seemed to clear the air. So I guess its okay to let them see you stub your toe every once in a while. I sat down and went over my last two classes and listed my goods and bads and learned a lot from that. Mindy Smith
Hi Jean,
I concur! Move on and learn from each mistake to become a better person.
Patricia
Hi Roxanne,
We will make mistakes as long as we live. Try to prepare as much as possible and do the very best that you can. When a mistake is made, own up to it, learn from it, and move forward.
Patricia
I am always eager to allow students observe my mistakesand the handling of them. Forgiveness is important in life and so is I am sorry
Hi Ibrahim,
Great list! These surely are mistakes that will lead you to no where. Take heed to this list and you will make for a better instructor.
Patricia