If you google brownie recipes, you’ll get many options. There will be two ingredient ones, recipes that promise to take five minutes and other recipes which require sifting flour and over a dozen ingredients.
Though everyone has a different recipe that they believe is for a great teacher, here is mine:
Ingredients:
- 4 cups of Relationship (without a teacher-student relationship, it is highly unlikely for the recipe to work out)
- 2 cups of policies and procedures – this needs to be consistent and clear
- 2 cups of Humility – the ability to accept feedback and change
- ⅓ cup of Active Learning Strategies (mix and match for best results)
- 1.5 cups of Curriculum – a clear plan of goals, mapped out, and assessed
- A dash of humor
- A dash of pedagogical tools which may vary from recipe to recipe
- Optional but yields better results: Yields best when done with cooperative baking, praise which promotes growth mindset and a positive social culture.
Directions:
Before starting the school year, be sure to collect all the ingredients. Though some may be easily attainable, some might need more work and introspection. Write out the goals
and plan how you will reach it, through curriculum mapping.
The key to this recipe is that the teacher never settles as “having gotten the perfect recipe” but the teacher always strives for higher and higher, and remembers to learn from other teachers, whether through observations, reading educational blogs or pedagogical books. At the end, be sure to do a taste-test CFU to see if the recipe was given over as you had hoped.
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