Kevin Williams

Adding variety to the instructional environment is important and at times, challenging but rewarding.  Students need variety to keep them involved and interested in a course, but they also should be there for their own learning at the same time.  Not every day can be an exciting and amazing lesson!

I have always felt that being a teacher is a like being a performer to some degree.  While I am certainly an introvert at heart, teaching has forced me to be an extrovert for at least a few hours a day, because I know I am in the spotlight and on stage to some degree.  I have to take subjects (math and chemistry) that are very challenging and usually dry and boring for most, and try to make them come to life.  

It is very challenging to meet the wide variety of needs of all of our students.  They come into our classses with such diverse backgrounds and experiences that it is next to impossible to meet all of their needs adequately.  

EQ as a teacher is as important as IQ if not more important.  

Soft skills are much more important than hard skills in the world of teaching.  While hard skills are certainly necessary, it is the soft skills that truly make a teacher excellent.  

I really liked the approach they talked about here by engaging students from a variety of different sources to reach as many as possible.  We have to realize that there is no one best way any more, and that we must use a large number of resources to effectively teach our content in a meaningful way.