What are the most important skills and personality traits needed to pursue a career in teaching?

Answer 1

To keep your cool and remember that they are only young and one day they'll realise that they have been immature and annoying. To keep working even though you've already done 10 hours because there's only 1/3 of the pile of books left to mark. Most importantly to always respond to young people in the manner that they expect: give discipline if they are trying to push the boundaries, share a joke if they are experimenting with their developing sense of humour (even if it's not really funny) Always find time to interract with young people, beyond the role of 'teaching', to show them that you value their personality because they just want you to like them.

Answer 2

Honest : Coz education cant offer u much

Patient : Your clients are children and parents with different characteristics

Loving : Children like to be love and they love a loving teacher.

A multipurpose teacher : u can be a doctor ,nurse , coach, parents, Accountant, Counselor , Singer, Dancer, Clown,decorater, designer.....at the same time.

Hardworking and productive : U have to check more than 100 workbooks perday and MUST returned them the next day..and will be burden with activities in and outside the school..

Cooperate : build a mutual rapport not only with children but all staffs

Smile :

•Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
•A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks almost instantly.
•A smile is a language even a baby understand.
•A smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.
•A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straights.
•It is almost impossible to smile on the outside, without feeling better on the inside.
•A smile can open a heart faster than a key can open a door.
•No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through the tears.
•If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
•No matter how grouch you're feeling, you will find the smile more or less healing. it grows in a wreath all around the front teeth. Thus preserving the face from congealing.
•A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those that give. It takes but a moment, but the memory lasts forever.
•Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
•Smile... nobody ever added up the value of a smile: we know how much a dollar's worth; and how far is a mile; we know the distance to the sun; the size and weight of the Earth; but no one's ever told us yet, how much a smile's worth.

Answer 3

why don´t you talk to your school counselor so he can give you advice on your question and while you´re at it, asked if you can attend the teachers who deal with the most badass students in the school. if after 3 weeks you can still feel you´re up to the challenge and most of all you get to enjoy their company plus not losing your cool when the whole class is a chaos , that means you got what it takes, getting your teaching certificate is the easy part.

Answer 4

You will have to enjoy children, be very patient and creative, and be able to communicate well - not just with children but with their parents too. The group "Love and Logic" has books for in how to deal with children's behavior from a teacher's standpoint - children are very perceptive and can be very good at finding your weaknesses and pushing your buttons. You'll have to be able to maintain control in any situation. Otherwise, you will loose their respect and it's all over. I would highly recommend that you read their literature.

http://www.loveandlogic.com

Answer 5

Skills: Organization, communication, inventiveness, multi-tasking, absolutley must know how to be both a strong disciplinarian and inspiration
Traits: Patience, leadership, tenacity, dedication, self-motivation, intelligence, a sense of a higher calling because your rewards must be personal rather than material if you plan to survive.

Answer 6

I WISH I could tell you something similar to - talking in public, strong willed, or just plain tough!

But in all actuality, it depends on the person! I have worked with (and been taught by) some of the most timid quiet people, and they were FABULOUS - for YOUNGER children.

On the other hand, I have also been in contact with several very abrassive and in your face people, who do not seem to make very good teachers.

Overall - the qualities I have found in the best teachers I have known are:

EMPATHY

CONSISTANCY

UNDERSTANDING TO INDIVIDUALITY

DRIVEN

GREAT TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

RESPECTFUL (to both administration and their students)

ARTICULATE

HARD WORKERS

Answer 7

The skill to live on a low income.
The personality to smile when none teaching friends buy artifacts you cannot afford.

Answer 8

Well, it would probably help if you liked being around children, were versitile and eager to try new things. You'll need to be a life-long learner, willing to continue your education throughout your career, and you'll need to be satisfied with a middle income.

Answer 9

Have the passion for it, first and foremost. The passion will drive you to develop the other traits.

Answer 10

Infinite patience and a good sense of humour