1. Teachers and Teaching

2. Characteristics of a Good Teacher
Real person
Focus on important stuff
Understand student motives
Model risk taking
Can shift gears
Can read faces
Sets reasonably high expectations
Creates a sense of community
Humility
Content expert that makes connections (relationships)

3. Good Teachers are Having fun Passionate Patient Caring Creative
Inspiring
Funny
Good listeners

4. Traits of a Bad Teacher Disorganized No empathy Punitive Close minded
No feedback
Inaccessible
Appears uninterested

6. Experts? Knowledge of subject matter Wider and deeper views
Be careful of know-it-all
Cynical
Not just content
Treat pedagogy as
importantly as the subject matter
How to teach
How students learn

7. Principles of Learning
Success is a motivator
Provide a range of challenge
Knowledge of progress
Students inquire into rather than be told
Present a concept 3-5 different ways
Many more – do research

8. Teacher Behaviors Associated with Improved Learning
Clarity
Enthusiasm
Variability
Business-like behavior
Goal oriented
Absence of excessive negative criticism

9. Products of Good Teaching
Student scores on tests
Student essays, creative work, field reports, lab notebooks, publications
Information about the impact of teaching on career choices, personal and professional development
Desire to learn more

10. Watch out for PhD-itis
“The new graduate student's lack of humility is a stunning thing, perfect, seamless, and unbreakable. They begin issuing their opinions to anyone who will hold still on the assumption that the benighted masses have just been waiting patiently for a clever graduate student to explain How Things Really Work.”
…professors too!

12. My advice Recognize student as individuals (NAMES)
Make the classroom yours (BE COMFORTABLE)
Be the source of energy (PASSION)
Be aware – read faces (STOP)
Be organized (OR FAKE IT)
Do what you always wanted to do (TAKE RISKS) or get help
Allow for creativity
Get $$$ and publish
PUT IN THE TIME and HAVE FUN