Pointers!
- You have to make sure that your students are on the same wavelength as you. A great way to do this is (after you've got a more or less stable number of students in class) by directly asking students what they expect to learn from your course. Take their input and teach accordingly.
- You also need to understand whether your students have grasped the concepts that you have labored so hard to explain. So why not give them a one minute paper after your class? It's a great way to evaluate whether they've been paying attention!
- You can master the art of cooperative learning. Teach your students to teach each other! Now a disadvantage of this method is that students feel they are not justly evaluated, so what you can do is give them an opportunity to provide you feedback about their group members and keep it confidential.
- A very important skill that teachers should have is they should know how to combat plagiarism. They need to instill the importance of honesty in students by creative methods.
- You need to keep your pupils thinking. Start every lesson off with a question. This helps especially in higher education jobs or higher ed jobs.
- If you're working on university online jobs, a good way to reach out to students is to recap your class in the form of an email and send it to them in case they missed out anything.
- You will also have to deal with your fair share of unprepared students who will come up with things like ''the dog ate my homework''. Well, individual participation is important and you can teach them the importance of this by example - be prepared for every class!
- A great way to evaluate students, if you're looking for university jobs, is by grading them on their class participation. Establish a list of behavioral criteria and then mark them on it. It will open your eyes.
- When you want to enhance your students' understanding of a subject teach it to them, not as a fact, but as an opinion and use examples to make your point.
- Lastly, if you are in the field of academic jobs, it is really important to get your students' feedback on your performance as a teacher.
