Chapter One of "Is It Done Yet?"

The aspect that struck me most about the first chapter of Gilmore's book is his answer to the question "Is there a system?"

Gilmore writes, "every student, every class is different." I feel that that concept is very important because it is a very easy thing to forget both as a teacher, and as a writer of books for teachers. It's easy to generalize about students and about classrooms, and easier still to forget that each is different. Every class has its own members, and each member has their own personality that will either me like many others you've know, or unlike any you've ever met. In this way it is important to cater to the needs of each class - even though you may be teaching the same subject to the same age group four times a day, I believe you should be teaching it four different ways. This should be done both for the teacher's sake, and the sake of the students.

Each student deserves the best possible, and having a teacher who is bored with the material or the lesson doesn't help anyone learn.