4 and 1/2 questions (the last one is rhetorical)

[emilly]

help me out:

why are school websites so often so shit?

where in Melbourne can you buy postage stamps after hours?

what makes an effective teacher? serious question, i have to write an essay.

should I switch from English to SOSE? Don't actually have to decide that till next year.

isn't my handwriting lovely and legible? especially for a McLeay.

Comments

[tikiwanderer.livejournal.com]

You've been effective as a teacher if the people you taught can do or understand or think through whatever it is without having to refer back to you. And I don't necessarily mean "understand something forevermore", but to be able to go back and relearn it on their own at need. This is what I have to do with a lot of my physics stuff - it doesn't stay in my head, but I can pick up my notes or text book and be right back with it quite quickly, because I learnt how to understand it for myself.

I'm inclined to think that the most effective teachers are those who make the process of getting to this point almost intuitively easy and natural-feeling.

[celuran.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's almost what I would say myself - teach some one how to learn, rather than teach someone that x=5.

It is interesting asking practicing teachers though. What came up at lunch time yesterday wasn't learning at all, but a love for your subject, and scrupulous fairness.