Lynn University

The first duty of the teacher is to generate a love for the subject on the part of the student. While I as a teacher must thoroughly cover the core area of instruction, I must encourage my students to develop greater depths of understanding and be passionate about the topics at hand. In my online classes I stimulate my students to bring up real life and current situations to illustrate important points. A teacher must emphasize application, creative thinking and development of ideas, and not weigh the course down with transmission of information, as nowadays information is freely available. A teacher must also emphasize the skills of learning on their own, as change is rapid in the information age and students must learn to learn. Finally, a teacher must create an environment of mutual trust and confidence in the class so that students know that they can be wrong in classroom interaction, and that this is a necessary step in learning.