metaphors used to describe professional teachers

presentation is used to explain the various metaphors that are used to describe teachers and their work as professionals as everyday life activity.

1. Teachers and teaching
student and faculty generated views and metaphors

2. A good teacher always knows during the first lesson where
she wants the majority of her students to be during the last
lesson. Only geniuses will find their way alone.

3. Orchestra Conductor

4. It's like trying
to make a
copy of
Michelangelo'
s David out of
play dough.
You wrangle
with it and
struggle, but
you have to
constantly
work to keep
the dough
warm and
pliable.

5. Teaching is a tool to empower students and professors
as to form and strengthen our consciousness to help break
the chains of the oppressed and the marginalized.

6. Teaching is not unlike parenthood: Requires enthusiasm,
commitment and an enormous amount of patience.

7. not the
filling of a
pail,
but the
lighting of
a fire

8. Choreography

9. Teaching a toddler how to ride a bicycle... In the end, teaching is
about guiding someone through his/her applied individual
learning experience and the time given to the learner to spend on
the bike is more important than the time taken by the instructor
to show how well the instructor can ride the bike.

10. Teaching is like crossing borders: you should approach it like
you have something to learn and something to offer.

11. Teaching is
like skipping
stones.
Students are
the stones
and the
ripples of
water created
are the
infinite
effects of
teaching,
whether you
see the final
product or
not.

12. A flowing river in which we are creating 'reality' together,
inter-subjectively in a dynamic interaction of teaching and
learning together.

13. Teaching is like painting. Sometimes the subject makes
a difference but mostly its the style

14. Designer
(of a
learning
experience)

15. Teachers grow and cultivate the seeds of knowledge they
plant within their students.

16. A teacher is like a captain of a ship, sailing on unknown waters
with students. being together with them in good and bad times,
yet more responsible than them, when things do not turn out
well.

17. To be a great teacher is to be a great coach--to provide structure and
discipline for learning, to set high standards and define them clearly, to
model the intellectual curiosity and openness to new ideas that you
expect your students to have, and to help students find their own
voices, and unique talents, even though they may differ from your own.