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QUIZ COULD YOU BE A GOOD TEACHER? Are you patient and understanding? Do you have the ability to teach others? Do our quiz and find out whether you could be a good teacher or not. Analysis on page 38 1. What would inspire you to become a teacher? a) The long holidays and short working day – it’s an easy job. b) It would be like a vocation for me – an opportunity to work with young people, and contribute to their mental, psychological and educational development. 2. Someone is having problems on the computer at work and asks you for help. What do you say? a) “Go away and stop bothering me.” b) “I’ll help you. Just let me explain the process to you, then I’ll send you an e-mail summarising the main points again.” 3. How does an effective teacher teach? a) By telling students to open their books and to start reading so they can memorise the information. b) By showing students how things work, by getting students to experiment with things, to question things and to develop an interest in the topic. 4. What do you think of people who are slow at i'm just going to search your bags for guns and drugs.
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i don't think much of the new teacher. he doesn't teach us much. yeah, but he likes taking pictures of us.
learning? a) They’re stupid. b) They just need a bit more help, or perhaps a different teaching approach. 5. What do you think of this statement: “Everyone has the ability to learn.” a) It’s just a load of rubbish! b) It’s true. OK, so not everyone learns at the same rhythm, and not everyone has the same
mental capacity, but if you modify your approach and give people opportunities, they can do just about anything. 6. What is the ideal student? a) One who sits down, shuts up and does what I say. b) One who is interested in learning and who wants to develop his or her mind and capabilities. 7 Are there different ways to teach? a) No. Teaching is teaching and that’s it. b) Yes. Some people respond better to different teaching styles. For example, some learners are kinaesthetic (they like to touch and manipulate things), others are visual (they like to see things), others are verbal and linguistic (they like to hear things), and others are logical (they like understanding systems).
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miss, could you change your pedagogical approach, please.
GLOSSARY a vocation n a profession that you choose to do because you really want to do it, often for selfless reasons educational development n learning and educational improvement stop bothering me exp stop irritating/annoying me effective n good, successful, and efficient to memorise vb to learn text so you can repeat it exactly a teaching approach n a method for teaching it’s a load of rubbish exp it isn’t true; it’s stupid to modify vb to make small changes an approach n a method or way of doing something
