Living values education Sierra Leone

*WHAT TEACHERS DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TEACHING*
👉🏿 Teaching is not politics where you win votes by talking.
👉🏿 The result of teaching is learning. There is no teaching if learning has not taken place.
👉🏿 Teaching is not about answering questions but raising questions.
👉🏿 Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
👉🏿 In an effective classroom, pupils do not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how?
👉🏿 Good teaching is more of a giving right questions than a giving of right answer.
👉🏿 The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds it hard to answer.
👉🏿 It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of pupils with facts....it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.
👉🏿 You can not make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to take place.
👉🏿 If children can feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings and grow.
👉🏿 Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
👉🏿 To teach pupils effectively you must touch their hearts long before you begin to teach their minds.
👉🏿 Do not limit your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
👉🏿 The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see.
👉🏿 If a child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach them in the way the child learns.
👉🏿 Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.
👉🏿 Teaching children what to think limits them to your ideas. Teaching them how to think makes their ideas unlimited.
👉🏿 You can teach a pupil a lesson for a day; but if you can teach