How to be a skillfull Teacher?

We define skillful teaching to include anything a teacher does that impacts the probability of intended learning. Thus it includes a wide array of skills such as communicating their belief in students’ capabilities, motivating and engaging students, demonstrating cultural proficiency, planning engaging lessons, making concepts and skills accessible, and continuously assessing student understanding. It also includes quite a range of activities beyond interactive classroom behaviors, such as analyzing data, designing reteaching, involving families, and being a good colleague and team member. Becoming a skillful teacher is a life’s work. Here’s the good news: there is a common core of research-based professional knowledge about every dimension of good teaching. That knowledge base is accessible and practical. It is not a list of behaviors or do’s and don’ts on best practices. Rather, the knowledge base defines areas of performance – all those functions teachers carry out – and offers a rich repertoire of strategies and moves for each area. The art of teaching is in continuously expanding one’s repertoire and skillfully matching which tool or strategy best fits a given situation.

Importance of Education in our life

The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then again, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. One thing I wish I can do is, to provide education for all: no child left behind and change the world for good!!

Technology in classroom

Technology is everywhere--entwined in almost every part of our culture. It affects how we live, work, play, and most importantly learn. With mobile and other wireless devices becoming an increasing requirement across every industry today, it only makes sense that our schools are also effectively deploying mobile technology in the classroom. However, for many schools, implementing the latest technology is a difficult strategy to navigate.
There are two main reasons for this:

• Schools are on the fence about the use of certain mobile devices; thinking they're more a burden than a strategic learning tool.

• Schools want to deploy mobile devices but their WiFi networks are not capable of properly supporting the technology

In both cases it's a lose lose situation for everyone involved, especially the students.
To help your school confidently make the decision to embrace mobile technology in the classroom, we've put together a list of 10 reasons why it will benefit your students.
Then, we've outlined how your school can make sure it's ready to actually support those new/added devices.

Reasons Why Your Students NEED Technology in the Classroom:

1) If used correctly, mobile devices and the applications they support, will help prepare students for their future careers.
2) Integrating technology into the classroom is an effective way to connect with students of all learning styles.
3) It gives students the opportunity to enhance the interaction with their classmates and instructors by encouraging collaboration.
4) Integrating technology in education helps students stay engaged. Most students today have been using mobile devices like tablets and smartphones to play and learn since they could crawl. So it only seems logical to align today's classrooms with the way that your students want and are used to learning.
5) When mobile technology is readily available and performing correctly in the classroom, students are able to access the most up-to-date information quicker and easier than ever before.
6) Technology helps students be more responsible. Owning your own device or borrowing the school's devices gives students the opportunity to improve their decision making skills as well as taking ownership of a valuable (and often times expensive) device. Again, this needs to be complemented by proper digital citizenship training to see the best results.
7) Technology transforms the learning experience. Students have access to an incredible amount of new opportunities. From learning how to code to learning how to better collaborate across teams and with their instructors--technology empowers students to be more creative and be more connected. New tech has super-charged how we learn today.

If your school is still debating how technology can benefit your students, teachers and administrators, I hate to break it to you, but the future of education is already here and you're missing an unbelievable amount of opportunities.

Attending A webinar

I attended a webinar on Thursday,October 17,2019 at 10:00 PM titled "The e Coaching Continuum: Digital-Age Professional Learning that supports the Whole Educator in Reaching the Whole Child"

In this webinar, the speaker Maria Rock who is an associate teacher at the university of North Carolina Greensboro, she is dedicated to solve all problems of educational practice and focused on the e coaching continuum for educators that provides teachers,administrators and other school professionals a step-by-step guide to the four connected, coordinated components of technology-enabled professional development:
1- Studying theory and practice to build knowledge of specific content and pedagogy.
2- Observing theory and practice to aid in the transfer of new knowledge to classroom practice.
3- One-to-one coaching to give teachers the feedback they need to improve classroom practice.
3- Group coaching to build capacity for identifying and solving problems of professional practice.

Some technologies that can be used to help teachers and children:
- Using E-book (electronic version of questioning for classroom discussion)
- Using teaching channel to view all videos: illustrating effective questioning and classroom discussion.
- Using mobile apps as TeachFx to capture and display automated feedback on teacher questioning and student responding.
- Using Online video conferencing and bluetooth technologies to provide discreet, one-on-one coaching, during classroom instruction to foster a teacher's use of questioning for classroom instruction.

The impact of technology:
- Improvement of pedagogy knowledge.
- Enhancement of learning climate conducive to support student success.
- Satisfaction with technology enables professional learning.

So, professional learning aimed at reaching the whole teacher and the whole child.

My reflection of this course

It's very interacting course, we are discovering new things through using technologies and that what will help us in the future job when we teach students through making quiz or collecting information, it's useful method, in addition to the blog that we learnt how to create and make our own page. I really enjoyed this and I'm waiting for more new things to know.