Six Types of Professional Knowledge

If you want to be a good and professional teacher you have to be skillful teacher. What is a skillful teacher? 

A skillful teacher is a teacher that has a wide knowledge about everything that is happening in the school and inside the class. To be a skillful teacher you have to acquire many traits like patience, you have to make good relationships with the students, also it is very important to have a good personality. Besides, a skillful teacher should have a knowledge as we said previously about everything in the school and in the class. 

There are 6 main types of knowledge: 

1. Content knowledge: To be a good and professional teacher you have to be aware of the content that you are teaching. If you are teaching English Language, you have to be aware of everything that is required from you in the English language. It is important to know the subject that you are delivering to the students. 
2. Pedagogical content language: It is about the knowledge that you should have about how to teach particular subject to your students. It is essential to know some techniques of how you should teach the subject that you are teaching to your students. For example, the way the teacher explains an English Language lesson differs from the way the teacher is explaining a math lesson. 
3. General pedagogical knowledge: It is very essential. It is about how to deal with general teaching. In other words, it is about issues related to teaching in general. For example, how to manage the students in the classroom. 
4. Knowledge of the students:  To know your students is very important thing that each teacher should have. It is important to know the students' cognitive levels, their backgrounds, and many other things about the students. If you know your students you will be able to build a good relation with the students. 
5. Knowledge of the parents:  The teachers should know the students' parents in order to be partners with each other and build a bridge between them to help the students. If the teachers know the parents of the students they would be able to know more about the students and how they would deal with them. 
6. Knowledge of the curriculum:  A good teacher should know the curriculum, how it is designed, what the students learnt before, what they should learn now, and what they will learn after.

These are the 6 types of knowledge. Each teacher should have them, if you have them you have a high confidence.