Dispositions

What does it mean to be a good thinker? Good thinkers certainly have thinking skills. But they also have, motivations, attitudes, values and habits of mind all play key roles in good thinking, and if people use their thinking skills when it is needed.

Can dispositions be taught?

I think they can be taught but a teacher cannot make their students learn. The student has to find a spark of interest in what they are learning and then they will want to learn.

Teacher dispositions loosely equate to values, beliefs, attitudes, characteristics, professional behaviors and qualities, ethics, and perceptions but not all of that can be taught. It is up to the teacher to teach to their best ability.

Resilience

It is difficult to prepare future educators for the many different things that will stress the teacher and bring the teacher joy until they have actually been there. You cannot necessarily prepare teachers will all the stresses that come with teaching because each child is different and they need different things but we can have ideas and experience to have us as teachers have one step in the door.

There are a lot of high teachers out there because they get burnt out before they get to experience more joys than stresses. I want a real life non sugar coated reflection from a teacher in their first five years. I want updates on what they did, what not to do and more. I want to know what to expect, to be sort of prepared but not fully. I just want to be a teacher already:)