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Antonio Torralba, in the eighth chapter of his book “The Joys of Teaching,” emphasizes the importance of the partnership between parents and teachers in the formation of the child. However, in many instances, parents tend to just leave the matter of child education entirely in the hands of the school or in the hands of…
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Evaluating the Heads and Tails of Instruction
Antonio Torralba, in the seventh chapter of his book “The Joys of Teaching,” says that one of the greatest joys of teaching is seeing all the student get high marks in the tests and examinations, in the projects and homework assignments, because these are proof that positive learning has taken place. However, he says that…
Managing Teaching and Learning
Antonio Torralba, in the sixth chapter of his book “The Joys of Teaching,” stresses that classroom teaching is a question of the management of the learning situation. A teacher is not just imparting knowledge, he is also putting the experiences of all the students and his own, the insights from the past lessons, the material…
The What and How in Planning the Lesson
In the fifth chapter of his book “The Joys of Teaching,” Antonio Torralba says that there are three levels of the study plan. These are the curriculum, the syllabus, and the lesson plan. The curriculum is the entire course path that will enable the student to attain the goals and general objectives of education. The…
Quality Instruction Leads towards Personal Integrity
In the fourth chapter of “The Joys of Teaching,” Antonio Torralba differentiates learning at home and learning in school. He points out that instruction takes place in school and not at home; instruction meaning, structure education. Instruction is the school’s specific reason for being and quality instruction is actually the very core of its mission…
Excellence of Pedagogy, Pedagogy of Excellence
In the first chapter of Antonio Torralba’s book, “The Joys of Teaching,” the author enumerates the six reasons why teaching is an unattractive profession, which are low pay, low prestige, too much paperwork, too many concerns, too many hardheaded students, little time for oneself, and love-threatening. In the second chapter of the book, he describes…
The School as a Place for Contemplating Reality
Antonio Torralba, in his book “The Joys of Teaching,” describes the school as place for leisure, and leisure is actually reality contemplation. He expounds in this book that teachers show and teach this reality to their students who are naturally eager about them, in a way that it is professional, formal and structured. In school,…
Choosing to Teach
Antonio Torralba begins his book “The Joys of Teaching” by enumerating the six reasons why teaching is an unattractive profession. These are low pay, low prestige, too much paperworks, too many concerns, too many hardheaded students, little time for oneself, and love-threatening. However, he balances these observations by making a list of what makes a…
A Teacher’s Prayer
Lord Jesus, when you lived and worked and talked amongst men in Palestine, they called you Teacher. Help me to remember the greatness of the work which has been given to me to do; that I work with the most precious material in the world, the mind of youth. Help me to always remember that I…
A new writing technique
I was playing around one day trying to look for something different to do a new way of writing if you will and I have came up with a couple of different ones I would like to share you can give it a try the next you have writer’s block or you get stuck for…