Wong # 1: The Effective Teacher

         "Every single student comes to school every single day with an unlit candle, and it is their expectation that you and I light that candle." This statement from the video "The Effective Teacher" struck me the most because it manifests the responsibilities and the challenges teachers must face. Lighting a candle isn't easy, it requires an ample amount of patience, perseverance, passion and dedication to give what is due to the learners. 

          I have also learned that there are four stages of teaching and that includes the fantasy stage wherein students are expected to behave, follow the rules and seat like little angels willing to always learn. This is common for newbie teachers but as time passes survival mode kicks in wherein teachers drag themselves to school while rowdy students make chaos inside the classroom or in other scenarios, teachers ask students to open their books read, answer, class dismiss and repeat. All teachers go through this crucial stage but the brave and determined exceeds this and enter mastery where teaching is as simple as breathing and there is ease in doing what teachers love to do and that is to teach.

                 The video also tackled the three ways on how to be an effective teacher which includes being a good classroom manager, can design lessons to reach mastery and provide positive expectations that students will be successful when they put hard work to it. It made me realize that even though teaching isn't a piece of cake but the thought of contributing and touching the lives of the learners, is fulfilling itself.