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Teachers have to be professional!Unfortunately, some are not.Here is a short presentation on the important things teachers should do to become better professionals.Talk given to teachers of Southridge, Westbridge, Southville International School, St. Joseph Grade School, and Miraculous Medal School in Paranaquewww.mannrentoy.com

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Page 1: Teachers as Professionals

The Teacher As a Professional

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The Four Beliefs of an Effective Teacher It is the teacher who makes the

difference in the classroom. By far the most important factor in school

learning is the ability of the teacher. There is an extensive body of knowledge

about teaching that must be known by the teacher.

The teacher must be a decision maker able to translate the body of knowledge about teaching into increased student learning.

--After Madeline Hunter

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STUDENTS WILL FORGET MOST OF WHAT YOU TEACH THEM, BUT WILL REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL IN YOUR CLASS!

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The effective teacher dresses appropriately as a professional educator to model success.

As you are dressed, so shall you be perceived;

and as you are perceived,

so shall you be treated.

Page 5: Teachers as Professionals

What is Appropriate Dress?You expect your students to use

appropriate English, write papers using an appropriate form, and display appropriate behavior and manners.

RIGHT?

Then you should understand about appropriate dress.

Page 6: Teachers as Professionals

Teachers are not in private practice. We are in the helping and caring profession, a service profession to help people enhance the quality of their lives.

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The Challenge

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Each child is living the only life he has—the only one he will ever have. The least we can do is not diminish it.

--Bill Page

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I have come to a frightening conclusion .

I am the decisive element in the classroom.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.

In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized.

--Haim Ginot, Teacher and Child.(1976). Avon Books.

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BUT, REALISTICALLY, CAN YOU REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? YES!YES!I AM ONLY ONE, BUT STILL I AM ONE.

I CANNOT DO EVERYTHING BUT STILL I CAN DO SOMETHING.

I WILL NOT REFUSE TO DO THE SOMETHING I CAN DO.

HELEN KELLER

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One hundred years from now it will not matter

What kind of car I drove,

What kind of house I lived in,

How much I had in the bank account,

Or what my clothes looked like.

But the world will be a better place because I was important in the life of a child.