However, if teachers are lacking in passion, then they will make little Impact on the academic training and development of their students, both in terms of learning and character.

In today’s classroom, the demand is to be instructional but somewhat entertaining as well. Boring classrooms spark distractive behavior, such as looking around the room instead of listening, drawing or coloring instead of finishing up an assignment, or bothering others instead of doing something worthwhile such as reading.

Part of the reason for detractive, behavior, especially among normally well-mannered students, is that there is not enough energy and passion for learning in the classroom.  More teachers need to make learning exciting and fun.

Super Teacher Lesson Plans

Becoming a Super – teacher who inspires fun and excitement starts with integrating lessons plans with a variety of fun, motivating activities. Fun activities will most likely get students to actively participate and enjoy doing it.

Activity oriented learning has many advantages. First, when activities are involved in lesson plans, the classroom becomes more energizing, students work together, learning is promoted, information is reinforced and motivation is high.

List of Fun Activities

Role Playing: act out the situations of story characters or historical icons

Skits: small groups of two or three students demonstrating concepts or skills

Assignment Relays: timing students to see how fast they can complete an assignment. Incentives for students who finish can include stickers, tickets etc.

Storytelling: tell stories that illustrate concepts, or provide more insight into event or character

Debates: students bring opposites opinions to the table, playing devil’s advocate

Reading aloud– students take turns reading aloud. Students can play popcorn reading in which students pop up and read when you point at them.

Video or DVD-students learn through video and DVD, followed by writing activities

Music, Song-students participate through music and song, important concepts are covered.

Teacher teams- two or more students take turns preparing for and teaching a lesson, can be done once or twice a week and can also be used as an incentive.

These are only a few of the fun and exciting activities. What makes these activities so appealing to students besides fun is that they emphasize group participation and unity?

You can find out about a variety of other strategies by studying the lives of iconic teachers across America, past and present.

How is it done?

Identify the teaching strategies you currently use and compare them to the above.  What do you need to change about your  teaching techniques?  Are your strategies fun and exciting or are they boring and traditional? Maybe you want to keep some strategies because the students enjoy them.  That’s wonderful.

But others lessons, including science and math, may be dry and uninspiring. The goal is to change these and make them more interesting. You can use music, read aloud, or assignment relays.

Adjustments Needed to Make Changes Official

You may need to explain to your students that the traditional way of teaching is going to change. Excite them with the knowledge that learning is going to become fun.  Inspire them by telling them that learning is going to become more activity oriented. Although things are about to change for the better, students need to know why the traditional way of learning is a thing of the past, especially in your classroom.

Qualities Needed to Succeed

Passion-all super teachings demand passion.  When teachers teach with passion, the vibe is so contagious that it fills the entire classroom.

Courage without a sense of boldness, a teacher will find it difficult to say good-bye to traditional teaching; instead, he or she will bow down to the fear of tradition and the possible scorn of his peers.

Determination and Grit-super teachers are unstoppable. They never give up on a classroom or a single student.  They take the blows of stress and resistance. They overcome it with passion, persistence, and perseverance, thereby bringing out the abilities, strengths, and character of a student.

A reputation, as a Super Teacher, develops as your implement fun and excitement into your lesson plans and give students a great learning experience.  Students will remember you as one of the most iconic, academic, and favorable figures in the shaping and progression of their lives and careers. They will also remember you as the passionate one whose classroom they looked forward to entering.

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Teachers with exceptional performance skills possess a confidence so strong that they can capture the attention and interest in the most challenging classrooms. Students can sense when a teacher has confidence in his or her teaching abilities. This confidence is contagious. Everything this teacher does commands attention. Students are excited about listening and learning.

When I first started teacher, I hadn’t mastered my presentation skills. I was nervous and this energy spread to the students, who immediately became agitated and bored. In addition to this experience, I was being evaluated by the principal during the second week of my teaching career. But it wasn’t until I begin to master my skill, recover from mistakes and strengthen my knowledge in weak areas that my confidence in my teaching abilities grew in leaps and bounds.

All teachers should strive to possess a repertoire of good performance abilities if they desire to climb the mountain of success in the education field. Exceptional teachers display a wide range of abilities, including motivating and inspiring students, encouraging and expressing creativity, prioritizing, organizing, academic goal setting, communicating best practices, behavior modeling, setting standards of conduct, implementing and enforcing classroom rule and regulations.

The more of these abilities you add to your repertoire and master them, the more your confidence will shoot through the ceiling of your classroom.

Teachers with limited abilities will struggle in today’s modern classrooms because of the multitude of contingencies that need to be handled. Classroom management, administrative demands, lesson plan designs require a quality skill set for continuous success.

Tips for Developing Confidence in Performance Skills

Believe

The ability to perform effectively in the classroom will make or break a teacher. Longevity in the education field requires you to know your stuff. The first step starts with believing in yourself as an important part of another human beings life. What you do in the classroom will influence this person for life. The words, actions and the learning activities you offer to a child will always linger somewhere in its memory throughout adulthood.

Something you say or do might not become apparent until that child becomes an adult. Nevertheless, the message will remain influential. For example, I have had students express gratitude for my effort long into their adulthood. Somehow they were reminded of something significant I said or done in my classroom.

Act Bold

If you are a teacher who is afraid of students, you better reconsider if the teaching profession is your cup of tea. Good teaching demands boldness. The ability to manage a classroom, to present an effective lesson plan and to stand up to the sometimes overwhelming pressures of administration calls for teachers who are sure of themselves and their abilities to make a significant impact.

Boldness is standing toe to toe to threatening situations and overcoming them. The more we use boldness, the more fear loses its grip over us. The teachers who possess the power of boldness will have the confidence to become the lord of their abilities.
When a teacher is afraid in the classroom, the students take charge. Their goal is to create as much chaos and confusion as possible.

Inwardly, they are taking their frustration with school out on you. They are probably doing to you what they really want to do to their parents: produce massive embarrassment so that you can leave the classroom and never return. I have taught in classrooms in which the students had run away every teacher they encountered, until they met me. I was their match.

Bold Presentations

To successfully communicate the elements of a lesson plan, you as a teacher must be bold. You must command the attention of every student. If students are talking and goofing off, you must have the courage to firmly redirect them. Students do not respond will to shaky and indecisive commands. But when you look a student straight in the eyes and make known to them who is boss, your message hits the target and they usually self-correct themselves.

In addition, teachers must have the confidence to present the lesson plan with a degree of voice tone that is clear and precise. Many student s have a way of playing “What games” with teachers who rush through lesson plans, skip over or barely pronounce words.

Bold teachers are not afraid to stand up to administration if it becomes an obstacle to educating students. Highly effective teachers often clash with administration who usually desires to take the more traditional approach to teaching students. These teachers are not afraid of getting fired or ignored for attempting to fulfill the vision for their students.
Acquiring boldness must be the aim of every teacher who desires to be a significant difference maker in the life of a child.

Strengthening performance abilities

Teachers who are weak in academics and skills such as math, English, creativity, diversity or classroom presentations can become a master in these areas by enrolling in teacher enrichment classes or seminars, viewing educational videos covering various skills, or studying the ideas offered on multiple educational internet sites.

The sky is the limit when it comes to building your teaching confidence and performing at an exceptional level. Super teachers never stop learning. Every new idea, trend or educational milestone can never escape the awareness of teachers who win.

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