Becoming a Memorable Teacher
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What makes a teacher live in our memories many years after we have sat in her or his classroom? As I remembered the memorable teachers in my years of education even past the Master’s degree, I tried to evaluate them so that I too could become a teacher worth remembering. I found that there are various essentials we must cultivate in our lives and personalities in order to be one of the faculty members who is loved and remembered when a former student writes a book, creates a wonder drug, or votes.
Becoming a Memorable Teacher covers some very important principles that a Memorable Teacher must include in his “becoming”: Loving the Kids
Loving the Call
Loving the Knowledge
Letting Learning be Fun
Letting them Be Funny
Not Taking the Subject Too Seriously
Taking a Personal Interest
Taking Part with Them
Using Your Other Talents for Them
Learning to Discipline in Love
Being the Encourager
Using Your Life to Teach
Letting Them Know You Are Human
Learning from the MASTER TEACHER
The teachers I remember fondly were all professing Christians, and I do not believe that was by chance. For, in order to be able to fulfill the requirements listed in this book, a love for God and a desire to serve Him generally precedes and precipitates loving the children, loving the call, and loving the knowledge, which will, in turn, result in a pleasant classroom atmosphere where actual learning will take place.
Becoming a Memorable Teacher is funny, serious, personal, educational, challenging and frightening. It will cause you to evaluate why you wanted to go into the educational field in the first place and, if you determine that you are going into it for the right reasons, it will confirm your choice.
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About the Book
After more that forty-two years as an educator, Jan R. Knight has observed and recorded what causes teachers to be remembered as a “joke” or as a positive inspiration for their students. She wrote Becoming a Memorable Teacher to encourage all teachers, at all levels, to want to give their students the ability to go further than just that classroom by teaching academic and character skills that will push them toward higher goals in life. Becoming a Memorable Teacher is serious, funny, personal, and encouraging. It may inspire you, scare you, or cause you to examine your true purpose for being an educator. If you follow the principles in Becoming a Memorable Teacher, you should be able to say at the end of your career, as the author does, “I loved being an educator—loved the kids, enjoyed the teachers and principals, and loved the life I lived during that time.”
About the cover designer:
Mrs. Knight was my eleventh-grade English teacher. She was tough but inevitably became every student’s favorite teacher. As yearbook sponsor, she had me illustrate the cover my senior year. That’s the connection to my illustrating this cover. She was the first strong Christian to indirectly influence my early walk with the Lord via her own walk with Christ.
I moved to North Carolina, met my sweet wife, Lisa, got married, and began a trek through ministry and education. Together we had four wonderful children along the way. I currently teach at WFMS in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Artist contact: dannybeach@ncol.net.
About the Author
Jan R. Knight was an educator for over forty-two years as a classroom teacher as well as a counselor in both public schools and a private Christian school.
Her previous book, Help! I’m a Parent! has sold well at book signings and on Amazon. She and her husband live in northern Mississippi, where she gardens an acre of flowers in the spring and summer.