Beside have a good professional and academic competency, for me, a good mathematics teacher must have other criteria. Here, I grouped 3 criteria of a good mathematics teacher. At least, an idol mathematics teacher can :
First, master the mathematics material. A mathematics teacher is properly master its material. What the world say if a mathematics teacher does not master the material?
In order to help on mastering the material, teacher must keep learn and study. Education has no end. They have to wish to increase knowledge from everywhere they can get. Do not satisfy by the knowledge that they have had. Do not proud of their self for the length of time they exist on "the teaching world". Simply, they wish to fix their self.
Second, to be the best mathematics teacher, they have to master the way to teach the material to the students. They must be able to invite his students to enjoy the learning process, relax and fun. To do that job, they need to master and practice a various kinds of learning approaches to deliver the material in effective way, that we realized, everyone have his/her different ability. Teacher must understand how the students learn mathematics. And don't ever forget that mathematics is part of human life.
Generally, students love a mathematics teacher who cares for his/her students and knows how to explain things so the student understands, being able to explain an idea in different way, take difficult concepts and make them simple and fun, tend to be caring and open for questions, use slight humor and are always easy to understand, doesn't rush over the material and willing to give lots of extra tutoring. Preferably, they give plenty of examples for each concept going step-by-step.
The third criteria to be a good mathematics teacher is having a sincerity. A word that easy to say, but difficult to be done. Sincerity here means that learning activity that the teacher do is needed to be based as the aim to do the religious service (praying). By this aim, teacher and students will enjoy the learning process. And be a mathematics teacher, will be the most wonderful job in the world and hopefully in the beyond after. Amien
So, the meaning of readiness to be a mathematics teacher is not just comply with a request of competency, but they must do the best for their students.
In this paper, I feel that I'm ready to teach mathematics in english even though there are still many lacks that I have. Nobody's perfect. But I will always try to be the best, the best that I can be.
Senin, 08 Desember 2008
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Excellent Ratna, your writing is original and inspirational. I enjoy reading your writing. Please continue to post your work. Have a nice Blog (Dosen: Dr. Marsigit)
Thank you so much Mr Dr. Marsigit
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