Teachers are important and make a difference. Teachers with the highest qualifications are not automatically the "best" teachers in the classroom. So how do you know if a teacher is a good one? It's not easy to define, however, here's a list of qualities listed by parents, principals, educators and students.
A good teacher:
- is supposed to be children's best friends.
- must be a symbol of kindness and love.
- must love their work and their students. This will make them motivated, energized, and creative.
- should speak to their students like parents talk to their young children.
- should encourage children to think, ask questions and also make them practice a lot.
- know his/her students well and they are comfortable and at ease with him/her too.
- is a good student first.
- is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
I believe that no teacher education program can actually teach you how to teach. If you are thinking about becoming a teacher, you should set high expectations for yourself, and demand excellence not only of yourself, but your students as well.
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