A Review: Personal Vision and Passion
(A Passion for
Quality: Teachers Who Make A Difference)
Aji Nur Hakim
In 2009, Christopher Day from University of Nottingham, England makes an article about passion of a teacher titled “A passion for quality: Teachers who make a different.” The discussion about passion divided by three parts:
1.
Part
1: why passion matters
2.
Part
2: three qualities
3.
Part
3: messages for teacher educators: pre-service and continuing professional
development
Why passion matters be the first discussion of Day’s
article. People may also questioning why passion is matters for our live. “Passion
itself remains ill defined at best, and at worst associated with unhelpful extremes of emotion which often
cloud rather than enhance possibilities
for
learning” (Day, 2009). Passion
of a teacher is exactly needed, because according to some journal, the failure
of students in the classroom mostly caused by teachers, who do not have any
passion to teach, rather than students’ background, such as intrinsic motivation
and internal or external private factors.
This is the graph from Sanders and Rivers (in Day,
2009) that shows how teacher performances affect student performance. Low performing
teacher affect students to have low performance. Meanwhile, high performing teacher
take students to have high performance.
According to Day (2009), who have been developed the
research over the years, five keys observation about the qualities evident n
good teaching and teachers are:
1.
The
definition of good teaching is a teacher who can combine technical and personal
competencies including deep subject knowledge, and the most important part,
having empathy with students.
2.
The
definition of good teacher is someone who cares about students, which is doing
it in purpose to do their job well, and showing connectiveness interaction to
build the positive energy toward students’ well being and achievement.
3.
The
identity of someone called “teacher” is crucial to motivation, commitment, and
effectiveness in the learning process in the classroom.
4.
Teacher
is the person who leads and manages the classroom and can understand students’
feeling and emotion.
5.
Teacher
also a person who can face the challenge and change the context every time
needed, and can over time hopefulness and resilience.
A teacher’s passion also related to quality of teacher
itself. Day (2009) wrote three qualities that have to have by a teacher, such
as: (1) relationship with pupils, (2) moral purposes (care and courage), and
(3) emotional identities.
A teacher has to make a good relation toward students.
Nowadays, teacher tends to not to close to students that make it causing failure
in student achievement. So that, the problem will be solved if teacher can
discuss with students what students feel and ask students feedback of teacher
performance.
A teacher is not only have duties to teach in the
classroom, but also have to pay attention to student behavior. Teacher has to
be a caring person. It state many times that teacher is caring person. Beside,
teacher also have to give the courage to students so that students build their
own courage to have high achievement. Teacher together with students makes
their own courage and optimistic to guide them in the success of the lesson.
Besides, teacher also has to have emotional identities
quality, includes emotions to rational decision making, understanding and
intelligence, and emotional health (biography, career, social). If people call
teacher as a person who can do everything, it is true, because a teacher can affect
student’s life, behavior in the classroom, student’s emotional, ability and achievement,
at the same time.
Day (2009) makes three key messages to teacher
educators regarding to their passion in teaching. Key Message 1: three are
statistically significant associations between teacher commitment and their
effectiveness as defined by pupil attainment. (see in picture 1). It is needed
an effective and commitment teacher who can affect students attainment. The higher
teacher effectiveness and commitment, the higher pupil attainment.
Key Message 2: recognizing the impact of these
influences in particular professional life phases and providing informal and
formal targeted support are key means of building and sustaining teacher
commitment and effectiveness.
Key Message 3: there are specific influences which
affect teachers’ effectiveness in schools in different socio-economic context. The
teacher’s feeling of vulnerability may increase their passion to teach well in
the classroom.
Key Message 4: creating positive work conditions,
meeting teachers professional and personal needs and minimizing teacher burnout,
are keys to encouraging teachers’ resilience, promoting teacher well being and
positive professional life trajectories, improving the conditions for teachers’
effectiveness in relation to pupils’ performance, and ultimately, school
improvement. They are the key tasks for school leader.
In conclusion, passion is important to teacher to
improve the better learning in the classroom. Teachers might an ordinary people,
but they can do anything that students need. That is why to be a teacher is neither
easy, nor difficult. Then, without passion teacher might not deliver material
well, and can not understand student need in achievement or emotion.
Source:
Day, C. (2009). A passion for quality: Teachers who
make a difference. Retrieved from http://www.velon.nl/uploads/kennisbank/document_254.pdf
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