ADEPT+6

=Providing content for learners=

“An effective teacher possesses a thorough knowledge and understanding of the discipline so that he or she is able to provide the appropriate content for the learners.”
A good teacher understands the content which they are teaching so they are able to accurately present it to their students. This is an extremely important thing to me as a future teacher because there is nothing worse than a teacher who acts like a “know-it-all”, but gives inaccurate information. Students tend to take everything a teacher says as truth, so knowing the content and being able to explain it is very important. However, to me, this standard also says that while a teacher needs to know the content they are teaching, they also need to know how to admit if they don’t know an answer, and be willing to find it.


 * Evidence:**

This is an essay which I wrote for my English 101 class, themed “Monsters, Freaks, and Villains in Literature and Film”. Frankenstein is one of my favorite books, and movies, and I hope to be able to teach it in my class one day. This essay looked at the film and book from an analytical standpoint of “what makes a monster”. I loved every assignment we did in this class because the books and films we discussed (Frankenstein, Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) are ones which I am very familiar with. If I get the opportunity to teach this, or any of the books we discussed in this class, I feel like I will do so very effectively because it is something I have been passionate about my entire life. I know a lot about the books and have analyzed them in multiple ways. I know every word to the classic films, as well as trivia about them, and behind the scenes information. I would be able to teach this lesson from several different standpoints, and would hopefully be able to make my students become as passionate about it as I am.
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