When Terry Heick found out his friend was going to be a teacher after handling various craftsmanship jobs for a long while, he decided to help him out by creating a list of random things teachers have to know in order to survive.
This list has been divided into parts with the first part below and subsequent parts to follow suit.
I encourage all teachers to take a cue from this.
1. How to manage their time with military-like precision
2. Where teaching has been, where it is, and where it’s going
3. How to wash their hands
4. When they’re working too hard
5. That every student has something really, really special in them
6. The difference between teaching, covering, and learning
7. When to push, and when to pull back
8. That your time with a child is just a blink of an eye in the span of their life
9. What it means to understand something
10. How to see students, not a class
11. That students love the water fountain so very much
12. When during the day to make copies, or how to go paperless
13. How to fix a broken copier
14. Which meetings you can skip, and which you can’t
15. How to use technology better than the students
16. When to say no
17. What to do when you suspect a child is being abused at home, or bullied in school or online
18. Who to go to for what
19. How not to get caught sitting at your desk by the administrators
20. How to organize and optimize digital and physical learning spaces.
Some of these ideas overlap, but the big idea of this list is to show the wide range of things teachers have to know that are actually practical and useful.
I believe this has helped. The second part comes up on the next teachers helping teachers Tuesday.
Cheers!
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