Problems during teaching!

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In today's post, we will discuss about the problems we encounter during teaching!

I hope you will find some interesting points in this blog and I also would like all of you to write down in the comments some other important problems!
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Increasingly I feel that teacher development, performance review and the whole apparatus around lesson observation should place a strong, central emphasis on understanding the challenges that teachers face in securing learning of all the students in a class. It can often be extremely difficult even for experienced expert teachers to nail every student's learning and this needs to be recognized. Management processes need to be geared towards supporting teachers to tackle the real challenges they encounter.

In this post I want to explore five most common challenges that teachers face:

1. They still don't get it. Persistent learning block.

Despite your best effort, students continue to struggle to understand what you're trying to explain or can't apply basic knowledge to more complex situations.

2. No time for practice. Engineering enough fine-grained practice before moving on.

Even if we know that practice is key, where does the time come from? I see students move from one barely grasped idea to another without having the time to practice in between. Solution to this might be to avoid rushing to use integrated forms of practice, such as extended writing, before students have practiced each part.

3. I can't get around to everyone. Real time checking for gaps in understanding.

It's so easy to sit in a lesson and see students that are masking their learning gaps where a teacher hasn't noticed. Among all the issues, I think the mindset shift is an especially important area to explore, to continually ask and explore the question: Who out there in the room still isn't sure? Have I explained enough? Does any one still not know and understand the answer?

4. If I let them talk, they don't all do it properly. Managing productive talk.

I'm a firm believer in the importance of talk as part of the learning process. It's how we rehearse our ideas, gain confidence with vocabulary and communicate in the dynamic flow of an instructional phase. The solution is to practice. I think it's essential that every teacher works hard to establish routines that allow them to switch from teacher- control mode to pair discussion mode any time they like, as often as they like.

5. They just don't do the work. Infusing peer cultures with a work ethic.

We can take the horse to water but we can't make it drink? The frustrations are real enough. Taking a group of students with a shared peer culture that doesn't include a work ethic around studying and turning them into scholars is hard. The solution is lie in making it easy from them to make them learn gains and to make study from part of group habits and norms: Breaking down tasks into small steps that are achievable and where success can be experienced and celebrated, before building towards more extended or complex tasks, teaching study routines, retrieval practice strategies, giving them accessible study guides, making study time part of the school day structure.

Teachers need time and the right working culture where they can openly express the difficulties they have in order to engage in finding solutions. If school cultures continue to reinforce a focus on teacher performance over student learning, top-down drop in, feedback and all that jazz, and continue to motivate teachers to talk up their practice and mask their difficulties, then we won't be doing anyone any favors, least of all the students.

             Let's solve the problems together!☺