Best Practice Teaching

Best practice teaching is basically good teaching and caring about the people that you are teaching and using these feelings to help the students. It calls for classrooms that are student-centered, experimental, reflective, authentic, holistic, social, collaborative, democratic, cognitive, developmental, constructivist, and, challenging. When you bring all of these into a classroom, it should be successful because it allows the students to learn and know how to learn without being forced to just memorize facts. A teacher that stands up in front of the class and lectures everyday, has you copy notes, and read a textbook does not really teach you. Without discussion about the topic, students will forget everything you say to them and most likely not listen when you are talking anyways.
I think having group projects and obviously class discussions on a daily basis will be a normal part of my classroom. But also talking to other teachers at the school and bringing what the students are learning in other classes at that time as well will be really important. I want the students to tell me what they think and let me know what they like and what they dislike because it is much easier to want to learn and pay attention if you are talking about something that they know they can share their opinions about and have opinions that they would want to share.