The Art of Teaching
To cultivating a students mind I use several forms of professional teaching etiquette. By necessity, modeling, mentoring, and monitoring are required.
As an mathematics adjunct faculty member, if I didn't model, mentor, and monitor students, I believe students evaluations would have eventually force me to pursue a career that didn't require human interaction (i.e. theoretical research).
If you have a passion for what you teach, and you want your students to have the same passion, modeling, mentoring, and monitoring are prerequisite skills.
What do you think?
Joseph,
What are one or two things that make teaching special to you?
Jeffrey Schillinger
I agree with you Sir no one can take away from us the ability to teach it's the best thing I have done.
Tzipora,
Nothing can replace a good teacher. Good teachers, whether online on in a classroom, do so much more than just deliever content.
Jeffrey Schillinger
I agree that to succeed as an educator one must be engaging and interactive both in and out of the classroom. In today's explosion of do-it-yourself online learning, the advantage of a traditional professor is having someone who appreciates the human element in teaching, and who models, mentors and monitors student progress and success.
Robert,
I have found the toughest teaching position in a career college is a general education assignment. Students do not come to us for Math or English, but we can have a positive influence if we are positive and supportive.
Jeffrey Schillinger
