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Teaching requires giving away your heart

"Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subjects. But often the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart." Good teaching comes in myriad forms ,but good teachers share one trait : they are truly present in the classroom ,deeply engaged with their students and their subjects . They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves ,their subjects and their students ,so that students themselves can learn to weave their own world . Good teaching cannot be reduced to just technique. Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher .All teachers do not use the "same" technique :some lecture nonstop and others speak very little; some stick religiously to the syllabus while others use new and innovative approaches. The methods used by teachers vary widely: lectures, dialogues, laboratory experiments ,collaborative problem solving ,cr