How to teach students?

I read CLEARING THE WAY chapter 7 and 8. Through reading these chapters, I got ideas how teachers should act and teach. The author mentioned teachers should encourage students but, at the same time, they need to think about how to deal with students’ problems. Therefore they have to talk about what is bad and should be revised. I guess this is sometimes really hard for the teachers. They want encourage their students and they don’t want make their students disappointed but they have to tell what is a problem on their work too. The author of the book told some suggestions you could do to your students but I think it really depends on your students how to encourage and tell their problems.

I want to talk about grading too. Teachers must be fair to all of their students. Sometimes, in the middle of the grading, teachers’ criteria might be changing but they need to grade their students with the absolutely same criteria. So sometimes, teachers need to take some time and double-check students’ works. The author said English is an art. Students make poems so it’s different from math or science. This is one of the reasons why in English the grading is sometimes hard for teachers. They can’t just count the numbers of correct answers but they need to see what this student got from this or improved from the last work. The author mentioned about her way of giving a comment to her student. She said that if a student uses the technique that was introduced in the class, she praises it. I think this is really good idea because it encouraged the student to use those techniques.

There are various ways to teach students but every time teachers should be honest to their students and tell what is good or bad on their work and keep encouraging their students.