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The Heart Of A Teacher Parker Palmer Summary

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In “the Heart of a Teacher”, Parker J. Palmer states, “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique, good teaching come from the identity and integrity of teacher.” There will be a lot of people around the world could be agree with this statement. All around the world, every country has their own way for teaching to reach their goal, and every teacher has stick on that goal to meet the requirement but they have different methods for teaching to meet the goal. Some methods that they use such as: lecture, group discussion, project, caring student, […] etc. However, to become a good teacher in common teaching situations like analyzing student needs, creative a meaningful lesson plans for student, and stick on the leaning design plans that had make and giving the best feedback with appropriate assessments. In fact, teaching with …show more content…

This is mean teacher has to know the behavior of their student and apply the right method. For example, student X is always get excited about learning and student Y is not really interesting in learning. Teacher could feel motivated with student X but with the heart of teaching, teacher should try to make a motivate to the student Y in other to make he or she more curious in learning. For example, when teacher asks a student Y, he or she has a wrong answer, instead of say, “No, it is wrong.” Which is killing the heart of student immediately and student will never answer any question later on, so teacher can say something like, “Yes, it is close. Think a bit more.” Thus, student can feel better and to do more and more and get more involve. Then the gap between student and teacher will be gone and it simple just like a friend, since there is no gap between them, the opportunities for students to take the initiative to learn more independently. For that, the best relationship between student and teacher, the best result in learning

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