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I'm sure we ever heard that teaching is 1/4 and 3/4. 1/4 is for preparation and 3/4 is for performance. I absolutely agree with this. However, it doesn't mean that we prepare lessons in a very minimum level and get the best result. Imagine that the 1/4 preparation of a teacher is 1000, so the 3/4 of teaching of that teacher is different from those having 100 for their 1/4 of teaching. Preparing much isn't a mistake, but it might be that matter if it's preparing too much. Every teacher has got their own definition of 1/4 and 3/4 of teaching. This is why I'm quite irritated when I prepare lots of things for my lessons, and others comment that good teaching is 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theatre. I do agree with that, but it doesn't mean that we prepare nothing or we don't prepare well.

We also know that the way be behave and treat students are always on students' memory instead of our methods. I totally agree with this, but this bothers me when others say that I haven't got heart and have got tendency on focusing on the method without caring of my own ways or behaviour when teaching. How about combining those two things? That teachers provide different approaches, methods, and procedures, and prepare them well doesn't mean that they don't manage or train their heart and passion for teaching. 

I know I know those two matters or other matters relating to teaching are good for us teachers, but the meaning of them are so broad; I'm sure. We can't use them to border our ways of preparing teaching, behaviours in the class, and the ways we handle the students.