Wong # 3: A Teacher, A Planner

After watching the third part of Dr. Wong’s lecture I remember what I’ve written in my first entry, that as a teacher we are life changer, we have the power to either make or break the future of our students. We possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. Our personal approach will create the climate of our class. Knowing this, I realize more how huge my tasks and my responsibilities are as a teacher and how powerful I am in the classroom. Having such power I should, I should be responsible, I should be an effective teacher. I have to do well and manage my class well to make everything works.  To do so, I should have my plan. I should make procedures for my students, for them to know what I want them to do and vice versa. The beautiful thing about procedure is that it makes the class comfortable and secure because students know beforehand what is expected to happen, which makes learning easier for them. But, it should not just stop there, we should not just tell them, we should practice it. As John Dewey said “Learning by doing,” so if you give an opportunity for your students to practice the procedure and experience it themselves it will make their learning more meaningful and effective. So as a teacher it is not enough that we know what we will teach, but we should also know how to manage our class and that’s by being a planner because a teacher we no plan, is planning to fail.