{"id":516,"date":"2007-08-14T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/516"},"modified":"2007-08-14T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T19:18:44","slug":"what-makes-a-real-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/516","title":{"rendered":"What makes a real teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is excerpted from the book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourbook.com\/BookInfo\/IP13683-04.asp\">Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/i>  by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? <\/p>\n<p>MYTH: Anybody can teach. Teaching is just communicating information, through effective verbal and instructional communication, skills that anybody can learn and master.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mythscover1.gif' alt='mythscover1.gif' \/><\/p>\n<p>TRUTH: While it is true that a part of teaching involves the effective communication of information (knowledge), that is a very small part of what teaching is all about&#8212;and probably not the most important. Teaching, at heart, is primarily relational, it more than a meeting of minds, it is a transactional process between persons. Teaching is more than sharing information-it is about inspiring, motivating, awakening, challenging, and creating. <\/p>\n<p>Someone said, &#8220;A student is not a glass to be filled, but rather a lamp to be lit.&#8221; Teaching skills can be learned, even mastered. And good teachers try to be masters at their craft. But real teachers don&#8217;t teach lessons, they teach people. A teacher reaches beyond the surface of instilling ideas to cultivate dreams within students, and, in so doing touches the future. Real teachers don&#8217;t just try to create smarter students; they nurture the development of better persons. In a real sense, the best teachers aren&#8217;t made, they are called. You can always tell who the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153real\u00e2\u20ac\u009d teachers are&#8212;they never stop teaching, they do so with a passion, and they invest themselves in the lives of their students.<\/p>\n<p>You can order a copy of the book <i>Myth: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/i> by Israel Galindo (ISBN 0-9715765-4-8) directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\">Educational Consultants. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is excerpted from the book Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? MYTH: Anybody can teach. Teaching is just communicating information, through effective verbal and instructional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}