{"id":4029,"date":"2008-08-14T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/good-teachers-4.html"},"modified":"2008-08-14T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:30:22","slug":"good-teachers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/good-teachers-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Teachers 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good teachers teach in similar ways. One of the patterns of good teachers is how they prepare to teach &#8212; how they prepare to engage students. Ken Bain, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWhat-Best-College-Teachers-Do%2Fdp%2F0674013255%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1217727599%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">What the Best College Teachers Do<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>, writes about the questions these kinds of teachers are asking themselves when they prepare. We looked at #1-6, and today we look at #7-13.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nA question for pastors today: Do you ask any of these in your sermon preparation?<br \/>\n7. How do we discover what our students know already and expect and how do we reconcile our differences?<br \/>\n8. How do we help students &#8220;learn to learn&#8221;? To assess themselves?<br \/>\n9. How can we learn what they are learning, give feedback, before we assess\/grade our students?<br \/>\n10. How do we communicate with students in a way that will keep them learning and thinking?<br \/>\n11. How do we spell out our discipline&#8217;s professional standards? Why do we use these standards? How do we help students assess their own work in light of these standards?<br \/>\n12. How will we and the students best understand the nature, progress, and quality of their learning?<br \/>\n13. How can we create a natural critical learning environment?<br \/>\nHe concludes this chp by showing how two teachers created big assignments, a &#8220;doing&#8221; assignment, that shaped the entire class so that knowledge and skills were constantly at work with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good teachers teach in similar ways. 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