by Helene J. Uchida
- Accept your students for who they are.
- Believe in their potential.
- Consider their circumstances.
- Dedicate your lessons to them.
- Empathize with your students as you wish more of your teachers had empathized with you.
- Focus on each activity and each student as if they were the most important things in your world.
- Guarantee your students that they will do well in your class if their try.
- Help everyone; let your students know that you are their biggest fan.
- Initiate positive interaction between yourself and the students and the students with each other.
- Make a joke once in a while.
- Kindle curiosity and interest about your subject matter.
- Learn from your students, their response to your lessons.
- Motivate your students to be the best they can become.
- Nourish the students with positive learning experiences in your classroom.
- Open your heart to the slow learners, the ones with a bad attitude, the unpopular ones.
- Practice what you preach.
- Question yourself from time to time.
- Remember everyone’s name as quickly as you can.
- Set an example by the way you dress, teach, act and treat everyone.
- Treat everyone equally.
- Understand each child as best you can and remember that understanding is more important than being understood.
- Visualize their success.
- Work hard for what you believe in.
- Expect great things from each and every student.
- Yield to circumstances that are not under your control.
- Be zealous as much as you can. Teaching is a noble profession, and zeal should be at its core.