May be you have read the famous quote of  Dwight Eisenhower on teaching which goes “ the true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be not to impart his own  opinions but to kindle minds.”

Teaching carries a lot of a person’s qualities. First and foremost he must be healthy and energetic. Like acting, a high-energy, performance profession that requires a person to act as a role model. But when teachers go through training and professional development, the performance aspect of the job is rarely emphasized or taught. Acknowledging this aspect could be a missed opportunity to restructure ways teachers learn new skills and tactics.

         Actors, musicians or acrobats spend hours perfecting their craft because that’s how they improve. Teachers on the other hand, are often asked to identify teaching tools and strategies and approaches they’d like to try and to reflect on how those new elements could be integrated into the classroom.

            Like an actor. A teacher must have passion in his/her profession. Passion in the teacher’s heart  is a quality that principals unanimously prefer to a teacher. He/she must be also sensitive.; the actors to his audience, the teacher is to his students.Students are humans, and not machines. A teacher must remember  that the youth are the most

curious and active members of society that he or she needs to provide activities that will stimulate them. An actor has a heart to teach, the actor has the heart to act. A good teacher teaches with a heart, on the other hand the actor acts too with a heart. They both have strong interpersonal skills and a sense of humor.

He started trying to improve teaching by identifying the best practices of exceptional teachers and giving workshops on those “gold nuggets” to less experienced teachers. While many teachers found what they learned helpful, they couldn’t put the new methods into practice.

          At this point he realized that, like learning a new piece of music or the lines to a play, the challenges of the classroom had to be broken down into component parts. In order for the teacher to practice succeeding, to feel the satisfaction of a well-given lesson to a controlled classroom, she needed to first practice controlling simple behaviors. Then gradually, the pretend students added in new types of challenging behaviors, adding layers of complexity so she could improve at a manageable pace.

 So teachers, do not be offended when many call you an actor or an actress; instead just be proud of it.

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By: Hilda D. Avila