10 Tips To Be a Good Educator

Feelings, passions, emotions and everything that has to do with affective expression in the educational field have been assigned to counselors, educational psychologists or psychologists in educational centers. Few teachers try to gain the respect of their students through affectivity, since it is easier for them to do so by lowering grades, warnings, expulsions or threats and constant claims.

Many students are disadvantaged due to their psychic maturity, so they prefer to abandon the study of the subject instead of solving the conflict, that may have originated a certain attitude on the part of the teacher.

Rivka Oratz, an experienced school teacher, points out that the current failure of the educational system, with a high dropout rate and a general lack of interest in studies, has a lot to do with the methods that are currently followed. Despite having advanced techniques for teaching, many educators insist on repeating the way in which they were learning as students, without thinking that they have learned techniques of the last century that must be adapted and modified for children of this century.

If you are a teacher and want to get the best results in your work, the following recommendations by Rivka Oratz may be useful:

1- Be a good professional. Prepare to teach effectively and do not do your work partially.

2 - Have in mind that students are people that are still developing their traits. It is your professionalism that will enable them to discover their potential to grow and develop their skills. In her 30 years-long experience as a teacher, Rivka Oratz lets her students know what she expects from them and what she is willing to give. She recommends all teachers to do so.

3 - Teachers are not there just to transmit knowledge, but they should provide guidance to their students to help them discover the world around them.

4 - Rivka Oratz recommends finding out about new technologies and, if possible, use them. Regardless of your age, everything can be learned. Consult with other colleagues who use them.

5 - Affective learning is much more effective, deep and lasting than simple learning. If empathy is the rule in a classroom, all the objectives of the teaching-learning process will be achieved. “Human beings are 100% emotions, a word said with affection achieves more than many rules and prohibitions.” says Oratz.

6 - Never call the attention of a student with threats, yells or insults. Much less in front of others. This will lower its self-esteem and emotionally de-link you from your goals. Also, this will not change the inappropriate behavior of that student.

7 - Maintain constant communication with the family of the students and listen to what they have to say or suggest. Many fathers and mothers have stressful jobs and find it difficult to supervise their children. Therefore, in Oratz’s opinion, monthly evaluation reports are from a great help and allow to correct and prevent bad grades.

8 - The knowledgeable educator Oratz, suggests trying to do some sessions outside the classroom. Break the charts and take them to different environments. This will positively enrich the classroom climate and combat monotony.

9 - Be positive in the evaluations, talk to the students about their possibilities and encourage them to be better for themselves and not just to fulfill an academic requirement.

10 - As a last step and perhaps the most important, Rivka Oratz suggests having in mind that each student has a different learning capacity. Try to adapt the classes to the majority, but also schedule sessions suitable for both, children with high learning abilities and for those with learning difficulties.