How to have discipline: Class agrees on rules; no exceptions; no pauses; breathless teaching from one issue to the next.

Computers

When teaching a skill say, "You notice that I’m not working hard." Show that it’s easy for you, and that it can be easy for them as well. Show that they don't have to write down a long series of complicated rules, but that instead they can just sit back and mouse their way through to easy success.

Some colleges do not offer a real-life pedagogy program. They leave out the practical basics such as being a coordinator.

When you get in trouble because all of the computers work just right and all of the classes that you see are the best classes and they show you how to work under ideal situations. They don't teach you how to run meetings. They don't teach you curriculum design although you will be asked to prepare a curriculum. Being a bureaucrat is yet another one. They don't teach issues beyond the specific mandate of being a teacher, but when you enter the real life many other things are involved and you don't know how to cope.

Some people are born teachers. This has been shown by religious schools in which the rebbe never studied how to be a teacher and yet many succeed. Some excellent rebbes are pedagogical leaders without having taken any courses. How do they get to be that way? They may have been born that way, or they may have learned by themselves or they may have imitated other teachers. Being a teacher is not necessarily something that can be taught. Maybe they were guided into it. Isn’t it ironic that the fields that don't need to be taught is given emphasis with wearying, detailed silliness, whereas the important things to handle - the bureaucracy, the advancement in work is - disregarded and ignored. Indeed before studying in many other departments students are given tests to assure that they have a minimal background in that subject area. And then they advance or progress in those subjects until they become proficient. Whereas in teaching the students are taken with no knowledge of whether they can be good teachers and asked to continue from there.

The college entrance tests rarely determine whether a person can be a good teacher. In most other professions there is a way to select students who show promise before they are allowed to study it. Not so in teaching, wherein students nay have to show proficiency in the subject that they will teach but not in teaching itself. Who says that being knowledgeable in the subject is the most important requirement in teaching? Teaching is one field. Knowledge of the subject area is a second area of specialty. A good teacher should be an expert in both of these.