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What makes a good teacher?
Submitted by TE Editor on 2 September, 2010 - 09:36
This is one of the most common questions for teachers but the answers are rarely the same. Or are they? We asked some teachers at IATEFL in Cardiff what they thought. What do you think? Watch the video, and leave your comments below.
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I think all of the opinions of the teachers in the video are right. A good teacher, as for me, should improve his/her teaching skills day by day in order to adapt new teaching methods.
A good teacher is he who can help students draw and discover their hidden source of positive energy on which they will lay foundation of their education. The purpose of education is to discover one's strength of self. A language teacher has to be imaginative and innovative to make ss not to feel bored, monotonous. A certain amount of dramatic quality stands good stead, though may not be effective always so far as language production is concerned. A good teacher should possess three Ps: purity, patience and perseverance. A teacher needs to ask innumearble questions in order to bring out the right answer; so he has to be a good listener, not to lose patience, under a somewhat tight schedule.
According to me A True Teacher is the one who come down to the level of the learner to teach. No doubt the command on his/her subject is must but at the same time he/she must keep this in mind that one should try to go beyond the books also and must provide them with true, experienced and live examples which the learner will surely understand. And there is no harm in giving knowledge of other subjects in your examples. Until and unless you cant love the child from within or take him as your own child you can never be a true teacher. Because I believe teaching comes from within.
Because I have over 200 children and I love them all. When you love them, are comfortable with them then only a true teaching can take place.
A good teacher is someone who is able to relate to his/her students. He/She should be able to understand the needs of his/her students and should be adequately equipped to impart his/her knowledge and experience with passion.
A good teacher never stops teaching. He/She is a teacher for life.
A good eacher is also a student for life, one who will continue to seek out new methods and techniques to impart his/her knowledge to his/her students.
Hi everybody,
In my opinion, a good English Language Teacher is someone who cares shares & dares. Someone who cares about his/her own students and tries to give them everything new in English language, someone who shares his/her own ELT teaching experiences with his/her colleagues and tries to cope with all new findings in ELT world, someone who dares to teach English language effectively & efficiently.
CARE, SHARE, DARE
Have a nice time
Regards,
Sir Profenglish
English Language Teacher,
West Bank, Palestine
Friday, September 18, 2009
I think a good teacher must establish good rapport with her/his students. This creates an amicable atmosphere so that pupils are free to ask queries and also discuss things. A teacher is a friend, parent and guide all rolled in one.
I would say that a good teacher needs to be passionate about his/her tasks ahead.
You need to understand the needs of your students, how they learn in order to help them in that process. You need trigger their curiosity and provide them with the necessary tools to continue learning.
Mercedes
Arq. Mercedes Viola Deambrosis
Directora
4D Content English
Circunvalación Durango 1429 of. 501
Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel: (598 2) 9161496
www.4d.edu.uy
Hello everyone.
I think a good teacher is someone who is able to understand his students' abilities and needs to learn. Then promotes and develops their language learning. Also I must refer to the importance of being able to build a kind of confidence between the teacher and the learner, this would facilitate the learning-teaching process.
I think the video is broken
Please fix it
A good teacher, in my opinion, is the one who shows friendship and share confidence. The students must feel comfortable with whom they are learning a new language. The role of a teacher includes being a friend, a psychologist, a supportive person that encoreages them to learn and make them sure that they are able to succeed. After almost 12 years I think I have got great results.
Best regards,
Karla
p.s. the video still doesn't work.
TE Team
Hmm, it's working here... I'll investigate and fix it asap.
Dear Teachers,
I think A good teacher helps those who are doing poorly to do well, and helps those who are doing well, to do even better! Kumar
Hi
I think teaching is a very hard job. from my opinion, a good teacher must be proffessional and patient . He always supports his students .
Thans
What makes a good Teacher?
Well there are many aspects and most seem to be related to personality traits such as being enigmatic, being interesting and so on. I feel there are also many skills that make a good teacher, an understanding of pedagogy and methodology of the subject in question for example, but one area that is often not taught, in CELTA, TEFL programmes is meeting students expectations in the modern world.
Students are Digital Natives, they use, the internet for chatting, meeting, discussions, making friends, studying and much more. We should be offering them a learning experience that meets their expectations of the modern world.
Our teaching should be relevant to students, making use of technologies in the classroom, such as PCs and projectors, interactive whiteboards and so on, lack of equipment in a classroom does not restrict making classes relevant, setting homework that is doen on the web is possible, students can work collaboratively on projects online using tools such as Skype, facebook etc and bring the results to class to print off. There are many ways to teach online without doing so in the classroom.
Using Technology is just one aspect of being a good teacher, and not more or less important than other replies in this thread, but it is one that is becoming more and more relvant, and we need to learn these skills ourselves if we are to continue to be professionals and good teachers.
On my opinion the good teacher should be have many experince to teach the students and I think he has many skills to make the students love him and listen to him.
I think a good teacher is the one who feels,understands,helps,explores, cooperates and tries.
I am From sindh Pakistan and I am an english teacher plz help me to understand this website. thank you.
and more i wonder how teachers can contact eachother using this site. can we as teacher talk like on skype or yahoo.
Hi, Sir Ishaque.teachers can only write their comments and ask or answer questions about teaching English of course considering Home rules of this web site.
A good teacher is a one who has got burning desire of teaching in his or her heart. A good teacher is the best actor or actress.
Dear All,
In our view, a good teacher is supposed to be passionate about teaching. He/she interacts with his/her students with respect, being able to establish a friendly rapport, being attentive to the students' needs and interests.
A good teacher should also praise his/her students for their accomplishments, making them aware of their progress, and helping them overcome their weakest learning points.
Given today's fast tech innovations, the teacher has to keep abreast of the so-called 21st century skills to be able to continue a good teacher/professional, guiding his/her students through a creative, responsible way.
Cheers,
Maria
Dear K. Rajalakshm
You are right when you mention "teacher's knowledge" and "the ability to control the classroom".
If you allow me, I would like to emphasize that "teacher's knowledge" should also incorporate a certain degree of knowledge h/she has been able to collect from his/her students. Firstly, getting to know their profile, character, personal interests in life and studying. Then, teacher's daily devotion to the work and deep interest in teacher development will certainly lead to that ability to control the classroom.
Good luck!
Maria
hello, on the video, every body coincided the teachers must love their career, actually they all were right. And we know it is a luadable profession.
thank you for the video ,teaching is not so easy you must sacrifice your life and time as well as improving your skills and methodology and adapting yourself and your way of teaching to the new generation
A good teacher must be an artist and make the pupils act with him in class.The teacher should be a good student himself.He should always learn and practice new methods in the class and use the newest technology if he can.Agood teacher should be a godd phsycologist ,kind and patient.He should love his job
Interesting, but perhaps it's students who should judge instead of teachers.