A teacher, to be able to perfect her craft has to grab each offered opportunity to learn more. Everyear, there is no doubt that teachers, whether in public or in private are given the chance to stay out from being stagnant. Both public and private schools allot funds for teachers' training and  schooling if they still wish to be enrolled in the graduate school.  This happens in order to equip and empower them in their field. Being equipped will then help them face whatever challenges there will be in the arena of teaching and learning. 

 

Part of being equipped and being extraordinarily knowledgeable about the field of teaching is making oneself aware that in the course of teaching, the teacher is not making his or her student lose his or her individuality. We teach, students should make something out of what we taught them. We don't make them become like us, like other people or worst,  like each other in the classroom, students who live in conformity all their lives. We encourage them to become their best selves ever.

Easy as it may seem but this is one of the most common mistakes that teachers do. Teachers sometimes tend to teach a class treating them as belonging to only one single type of learner. This is evident in their prepared plans where the strategy involved in a certain lesson may only be dealing with just the visual learners. Sometimes, it just deals with merely the audio learners.  Teachers must always bear in mind that no type of learner should be left behind.  Learning must be catering to all types of learners. Learning is very much possible if the teacher can make all the body senses of the students involved and working in the process of grasping the lesson. To make this possible, a teacher should be resourceful enough to try several teaching strategies and activities even for just one lesson alone. For example, in the learning of nouns or name words, it is not enough that the teacher presents pictures with names to students. The teacher may also play songs for the students to listen to and pick out name words. Tactile objects for the students to touch may also be presented as  they name them. Presenting the lesson in these ways can surely make no student in the class left behind. In this manner, we can then achieve teaching success as well as learning success. Students can then walk home with smiles in their faces that seem to say... I learned something in school today!