Trust and care are the ingredients to a good teacher 

Pastoral care allows for students to flourish, may strengthen the curriculum and may promote robust cultural relationships, however, the school climate/ environment may either heighten or erode the mental well-being of students and teachers and thus nurturing the well-being of students is of great importance.

Implementing pastoral care and well-being into the classroom is easy and can be done via the teacher being available and accessible, creating a safe environment where students can voice their concerns and worries, promote empathy and understanding and pro social bonding through remembering events such as birthdays. Caring for the students and being aware of their well-being is a necessity and can be the reason as to the increase in their academics.

To teach effectively one needs to take into account several components such as behaviour, social and academics.  Teachers need to allow for an environment where students can actively participate and receive feedback. Teachers should orientate the classroom that will not only suit their style of teaching but will also facilitate learning and active engagement. The teachers cannot separate the home and the school and thus should establish positive communication between the home and schools. This can be done through making the parents aware when the students do well academically and behaviorally .Use different teaching strategies that will align with how the different students learn. One should understand the resources that are available and use them in a way that will enhance learning and not distract the learners from learning.

There will be Limitations when philosophy, teaching practices and teaching theories cannot be reconciled with the curriculum as these decisions are made at school administrative level.

In the article by wills I love how the teacher took a problem and created an exciting and interesting solution to the problem. This solution not only got the students highly curious but taught them several skills such as co-operation. We so often forget to ask how students felt about something, as it takes time, but it helped her gain insight into how they were feeling but they also felt pleased and happy that their voices had been heard, the students just had a much greater respect for the teacher. Through this task they every day came up with new ideas as to what was on the table that they couldn’t drop, these ideas ranged from buckets of acid to towers of cupcakes. Learners were excited every day to perform this task of rearranging the desk as the teacher made it creative and fun, something they could get involved with and let their minds run wild for a few minutes

She trusted her students with preforming the task of rearranging the desks and doing so quietly. The students did so when she made it create and fun but when it was a chore that they had to do they were not interested and so they dragged the desks and did a half job, which Is natural, most of us do a half job or do it with such laziness when we are not interested.

Learning doesn't only take place in the classroom 

Most of us are familiar, and may have only experienced the conventional way of learning, where we drag ourselves to class at 8am, put all cell phones away (they are not allowed to be used), sit in the same place and listen to the same old stuff that we never find relevant or interesting. We just had to sit there and absorb all this information; we never had a chance to teach ourselves, it was frowned upon. Teachers thought that if they let us self-study that we never would, that we would just mess around all day, they never trusted us.

Technology was very limited in the school I attended, no phones, no tablets, no laptops in class and social media sites such as Facebook was not even accessible on school grounds. The teachers think they know everything, well mine did, and they were highly against any form of change even if it made the lesson more fun or even more understandable.

The only way students will learn is if they are interested, this can be done on their own or in the classroom, but if you are boring and they are never paying attention, then you might as well let them study and learn things on their own. Schools are not allowing for independence and individuality and forcing students into these boxes where they may not even belong.

No student ever wants to do homework, if we have maths to do but we really want to make a movie, or do something practical, maths will always lose, unless you get the students excited and motivated enough to actually want to do the maths homework. Schools need to become places where we want to hang out and where we want to be every day, not count down the hours till the end of school and then start counting down the days till its Friday. I cannot even begin to explain how many times I, as a student in high school, complained when I had to get up in the morning or that it was only Wednesday.

Information and Communication Technology (ITC) is an important aspect of teaching, the use of ITC creates many possibilities across the globe for people to have access to an education. Teaching does not only have to take place in the classroom and it also doesn’t have to be one way (teachers talk and students are silent listening only). These ITC standards can be limiting, and can be problematic where there is no internet access and can be limiting to those that do not have the basic computer literacy skills that are needed to understand the basics of technology

Distance learning is an option and should really be considered especially when getting to school every day is difficult, either far away or traffic is very bad. I learn the best when it is something I am interested in and when it is easy to understand. I love YouTube videos, they make my life easy, they make learning easy, I used it so often with maths in first year as the lecturers style of teaching was not matching with my style of learning, this made maths difficult for me and I lost the confidence and relevance of doing maths. I then came across khan academy, these YouTube videos gave me the confidence that the lecturer couldn’t

Thus I don’t believe that if you allow students to teach themselves that they won’t, we need to trust students more and let them, if they are not learning in school, to find the best way for them to learn.