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What are the three most important characteristics of a great teacher?

2006-12-11 14:18:23 · 17 answers · asked by Concerned Citizen 3 in Education & Reference Teaching

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Characteristics Of A Great Teacher

2016-10-25 04:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by pals 4 · 0 0

The three best characteristics of a great teacher are sincerely caring about each student, knowledge of the material and letting the students own their progress by challenging them sometimes individually and sometimes in groups to find the answers themselves through challenging and highly interesting projects. I will borrow an example from two sixth grade teachers I worked with last year. They had the students research a famous person and then dress up as that person and recite a brief description and biography. The students did this at a fair where the whole school was invited. Every student in the school could walk up to any one of them and touch a dot on their hand and they would speak and recite. (They were pretending to be wax figures.) The teacher who did these types of activities the most had the highest test scores in the building and was the most popular teacher with the students.

2006-12-11 14:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by StarGalactica 2 · 0 0

1. A good teacher makes you feel that he is talking to you, not teaching you. He does not carry on with his monologue, lecturing nonstop on a topic.

2. The first step to teaching is to ensure active listening of the students. That needs good communication techniques, which is the key to good teaching. To do so, you introduce a subject in simple words.

3. Students' participation is vital. Sometimes, when you invite questions, you are met with silence. That happens when your ideas have not been clearly put across.

Early stages of learning start with some confusion. Slowly, everything begins to fall into place. That is the point where a teacher must reach before he goes into further details and complexity of any topic.

It is quite common to see that somewhere in the midst of a lesson, students lose track of what you are trying to get across. Many of them may be too awkward to ask a question because they are not familiar with proper terminology.

Successful teachers are like good journalists who can stimulate the readers' interest on any top topic. When you speak to a group of students, you must recognize that their levels of knowledge are not the same. You can tell the difference by inviting questions.

Some students may be able to ask "intelligent" questions while others may be struggling to put their thoughts together and keep rambling when they try to participate. It is the teacher's job to show interest and appreciation to every student before smirks and giggles start to demoralize the student who cannot make a point.

Teaching is a form of loving. A good teacher has to be patient, knowledgeable, entertaining, and tactful. The first step is to create a relaxed atmosphere with anecdotes and jokes. After a little warm-up, you can move on to your the topic or subject that you are going to teach.

2006-12-12 16:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Pran Nath 3 · 0 0

A great sense of humor, and a charismatic style which keeps kids engaged and interested. Also a true love of the the art of teaching, and a deep caring for the kids.

2006-12-11 15:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by b_friskey 6 · 0 0

A good teacher likes and respects students, and loves teaching.

A good teacher understands learning styles, different learning and student needs, curriculum scope and sequence, and their subject matter very well.

A good teacher can inspire students to want to learn.

Maybe I worked in more than three, but they are connected.

2006-12-11 14:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1. Understanding the subject matter yourself and knowing how to teach it in a way that all students will master it
2. Being able to identify the different learning styles of your students and teaching in a way that they will understand
3. Accommodating all students, patience, love for teaching, a love of children...
Sorry, I know it was more than you wanted.

2006-12-11 18:17:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1) patience 2) willingness to listen and work with students 3) ability to teach material different ways.

2006-12-11 15:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0 0

A great teacher:

-gives you information to grow on
-inspires curiosity
-leaves you able to make your own opinions

2006-12-11 14:22:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Knows how to teach well.
Doesn't give extreme amounts of homework.
Give necessary help to students.

2006-12-11 14:26:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

a super instructor: --knows the content textile contained in the section he/she is coaching --knows a thank you to handle distinctive discovering types --sees his/her scholars as human beings, no longer contraptions --pertains to his/her scholars with compassion, worrying, and consistency --has severe expectancies for college little ones, and for him/herself, the two academically and behaviorally, and is speedy to grant honest and ideal, unemotional outcomes for negatives, and beneficial comments for successes --maintains to be contemporary with academic study, and gleans as much as achieveable to replace and advance his/her coaching skills --knows of categories of beginners in his/her college room, and makes use of the two own study and different tremendously-knowledgeable colleages' enter to help ALL (no longer purely maximum) of the little ones study (no count if "conventional," particular ed, English Language beginners, complicated abode existence, etc.). --has an open college room, and welcomes the two different specialists and oldsters to observe, participate, etc. --provides a relentless message to his/her scholars that the instructor is there to lead and help their quest for their destiny aims and desires (no longer purely coach the place the citation marks ought to pass)

2016-10-05 05:01:25 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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