Principles
Real Life Situations
Teacher’s knowledge of the subject
matter is essential to the implementation
of teaching tasks
Active involvement of the learner
enhances learning
Interaction between teachers and
students is the most important factor in
student motivation and involvement
Students benefit from taking responsibility Never do anything for a student that he is
for their learning
There are many roads to learning
Relevant Quotations for Teaching and
“If a man is to shed the light of the sun
upon other men, he must first of all have
it within himself.”
― Romain Rolland
It must be remembered that the purpose
of education is not to fill the minds of
students with facts…it is to teach them to
think, if that is possible, and always to
think for themselves.
― Robert Hutchins
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that
spark of learning that those children have,
and you ignite it, you can take a child
from any background to a lifetime of
creativity and accomplishment."
- Paul Wellstone
capable of doing for himself. If you do
you, you’ll make him an educational
cripple…a pedagogical paraplegic.”
- Howard Hendricks
“Everybody is a genius. But if you will
judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it
will live its whole life believing that it is
stupid”.
-Albert Einstein
Expect more and you will achieve more
Learning is enhanced in an atmosphere
of cooperation
Material must be meaningful
Both teaching and learning are enhanced
by descriptive feedback
Critical feedback is only useful if the
learner has alternatives to pursue
Time plus energy equals learning
"Treat people as if they were what they
ought to be, and you help them to
become what they are capable of
becoming."
- Goethe
"Teamwork is the fuel that allows
common teachers to obtain uncommon
results."
- Robert John Meehan
“ The truth of the matter is that 99 percent
of teaching is making the students feel
interested in the material. Then the other
1 percent has to do with your methods.
And it’s just not true in language. It is true
of every subject”.
-Noam Chomsky
"True teachers illuminate the path to
achievement, believing the best way to
predict a child's future is to help create it."
- Robert John Meehan
"The dream begins with a teacher who
believes in you, who tugs and pushes and
leads you to the next plateau, sometimes
poking you with a sharp stick called
truth."
- Dan Rather
"No man can be a good teacher unless
he has feelings of warm affection toward
his pupils and a genuine desire to impart
to them what he believes to be of value."
- Bertrand Russell
Experience usually improves teaching “One learns how to teach and get better
at it by actually teaching, analyzing
results, and using feedback to improve.
Teacher education programs do not teach
people how to teach; at best, they
prepare students to learn the needed
professional skills once they begin
teaching.”
-Bob Kizlik