18/08/2020
To all seasoned, prospective, and aspiring educators just like me, I want you to read and reflect on the following tips on becoming a more effective teacher. I got these tips from Dr. Filomena Rivera and Dr. Guillerma Sambrano's book titled Toward Effective Teaching. ❤️🤗
1. You are judged by your bearing, your grooming and your speech when you report for an interview.
2. Send prospective employers letter of application which are free from erasures and grammatical mistakes — misspelling, erroneous sentence structures, careless organization, and stereotyped expressions.
3. Respond promptly to all offers that come to you. File applications in several places and be ready to answer each offer within a reasonable period of time.
4. When signing a contract for a teaching position, you should study very well the conditions of the employment in order to know your rights and responsibilities as well as the expectations of the students and the employers.
5. Respect the right of any student to have confidential information about himself withheld except when required by law to release it.
6. Do not tutor your own pupils/students especially for extra remuneration. Remedial teaching, however, is a part of every teacher's work.
7. Conduct professional business through proper channels. Do not bypass immediate superiors.
8. Do not discuss confidential and official information with unauthorized persons.
9. Strive to be as tactful about a learner's personal appearance as you would be with an adult's or a colleague's.
10. Lead a life of upright morality both public and private. Be a model of good behavior.
11. Besides being academically sound, the practice of sticking to your time schedule (instead of using other teachers' periods for your own purposes like cleaning or practicing for a program) will foster better relationship among faculty members. This is underscoring the paramount importance of instructional time for every subject area.
12. Be proud of the teaching profession and avoid makind derogatory remarks and apologies about it.
13. Grasp every means for professional growth through in-service education.
14. Be physically, mentally, and morally fit for the service you have to render.
15. To be socially accepted, keep yourself morally upright and refrain from gambling, drinking, and other immoral practices.
16. Do not criticize an associate in the presence of pupils or students, fellow teachers or school patrons.
17. Acknowledge the assistance you receive from your co-workers and do not appropriate their work for your own.
18. Deal justly and impartially with every pupil or student regardless of intellectual ability and social standing.
19. Live within your means to avoid financial liabilities.
20. Subscribe to newspapers and professional magazines for your continuing intellectual growth.
21. Avoid keeping money and valuable things in your classroom. If money is collected for some purposes, submit it to those concerned promptly.