Catholic Education Magazine November 2009

By Catholic Education Magazine November 2009 | November 01, 2009

Teaching and learning in the classroom is just as complex. It’s not just about knowing the content and how best to get it across. A good teacher needs to know exactly how each student will receive the information. He or she also needs to know who will need more support and who will race ahead. The teacher also needs to know what values he or she wants to reinforce and what skills are being built on. A good teacher is aware of her inherited patterns of teaching, personality and preferred styles; and a good teacher is also aware of how the school ethos interacts with the culture of wider society.

Besides all of this the teacher also needs an understanding of the general theory of learning. Developing teachers for these complex classroom situations is not simple – perhaps that is what we just don’t recognise!

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