Authenticity

Teachers need to be authentic. I feel that if you are authenitic, you would be authentic in many situations. The students know when a teacher is just going throught the movements or putting on a act. When a teacher is excited about the subject they are teaching, the children will be more likely to be excited about the subject. The teacher has to have the same excitement for the boring repetitive math facts as for the cool science experiment. If not, the children will feel that if the teacher is not compassionate about the subject, why should they be excited about learning it. Each student needs to have that excitement to boost their learning and the teachers need to do everything to boost the children's excitement for learning.