A good teacher is cooperative.

Cooperative – The ability to work effectively with administrators, other teachers, and

parents for the good of your students.
A teacher must be able to build cooperative relationships with others around them even
if they do not necessarily like them.

A good teacher is creative.

Creative – Taking a concept and shaping a lesson that is unique, engaging, and
dynamic.
A teacher must be able to create lessons that grab their students’ attention and make
them want to keep coming back for more.

A good teacher is dedicated.

Dedicated – Showing up every day and spending the necessary time to provide your
students with the best education.
Teachers often arrive early and stay late. They work parts of weekends and summer to
ensure that they are prepared.

A good teacher is determined.

Determined – Finding any means necessary to reach all students no matter the
challenge.
Teachers must be willing to do anything to ensure that all students receive the
education they need.

A good teacher is empathetic.

Empathetic– Being sensitive to a student’s struggles even though you may not
personally be able to relate to them.
A teacher must put themselves in the student’s shoes and see it from their perspective.
This approach is often transcending in how to help the child succeed.

A good teacher is engaging.

Engaging – The ability to grab the attention of a classroom full of students and to
maintain their attention throughout the entirety of the class period.
A teacher must create lessons that are fun, fresh, and energetic. You want your student
to walk out of your class each day looking forward to the next.

A good teacher is evolving.

Evolving – A continuous process of year over year improvement and growth.

A teacher must continuously look for ways to improve themselves as well as individual
lessons or components of lessons.

A good teacher is fearless.

Fearless – Trying a new approach that may be outside the norm and may receive
criticism or scrutiny.
A teacher must be willing to try anything within the parameters of school policy to reach
their students. They must also be ready to defend their approach to criticism.

A good teacher is forgiving.

Forgiving – Quickly putting incidents with student, parents, or other teachers behind you
so that it does not impact your teaching.
Teachers must be able to get past hurtful actions or accusations quickly. They must not
hold it against any student or let it impact how they teach in the classroom.

A good teacher is generous.

Generous – Volunteering for extra assignments and/or giving money out of your own
pocket for classroom needs or individual student needs.
Teachers do not make enough money, but most teachers are willing to donate time
and/or money to help out in areas where a need is recognized.

A good teacher has grit.

Grit – The determination to overcome any obstacle in the way of obtaining a long-term
goal.
A teacher must possess the grit necessary to make the personal sacrifices necessary to
ensure that every goal is reached every year.

A good teacher is inspirational.

Inspirational – The ability of a teacher to get their students to buy into, believe in, and to
be motivated to become lifelong learners.
A teacher should make a lasting inspirational impact that follows a student throughout
their life.

A good teacher is joyful.

Joyful – Coming to class each day in a good mood, excited, and enthusiastic about
doing your job.
If the teacher has a lousy attitude, the students are going to have lousy attitudes. If the
teacher is joyful, the students are going to be joyful.

A good teacher is kind.

Kind – Saying and doing things that uplifts,motivates, and inspires.

Kindness should be innate for all teachers. A mean spirit will turn students off, but a kind
spirit is invaluable.

A good teacher is organized.

Organized – The ability to keep things neat and orderly allowing teachers to access
materials quickly and to make efficient transitions.
Organization is a necessary quality for every teacher. Teaching encompasses so much
that those who are unorganized will be overwhelmed and swallowed up.

A good teacher is passionate.

Passionate – Teaching with enthusiasm and exuberance on a daily basis because you
love the content and your students.
A passionate teacher connects with their curriculum and their students which maximize
learning.

A good teacher is patient.

Patient – The ability to see the whole picture and to understand that the school year is a
marathon, not a sprint.
A teacher must never give up on a student. They should continuously try new
strategiesunderstanding that eventually something will work.

A good teacher is resilient.

Resilient – Not allowing adversity to stop you from accomplishing your goals.
A teacher must be resilient in overcoming the many obstacles that will present
themselves over the course of a year.

A good teacher is resourceful.

Resourceful – Finding a way to make things happen even when things get in the way.
A teacher must be able to figure out how to get supplies and materials for their
classroom when the funding is not available and to reach a student who has no interest
in learning.

A good teacher is trustworthy.

Trustworthy – The ability to get others around you to believe in you and what you are
doing.
A teacher must gain the trust of both their students and parents. Any distrust will
negatively impact the classroom.

A good teacher is vulnerable.

Vulnerable – Allowing your students to gain insight into your life without revealing a lot.
Vulnerability allows students to relate to their teachers as they share common interests
such as sports, television, etc.

 TEACHER plays a pivotal role in the process of education. Theoretically, no teacher will
ever become totally ideal. Becoming totally ideal would mean that the teacher has achieved
such a level of perfection that she or he no longer requires further effort toward
improvement and, consequently, growth would be checked.

An ideal teacher usually possesses these characteristics: he has unassailable command on his
subjects. He knows fully the contents of the subjects which he has to teach. Truly exceptional
teachers are scholars and are constantly reading and upgrading themselves in their subject. The
tone of expression of the ideal teacher is not gruff, irksome and morose but is pleasant.

An ideal teacher has a good sense of humour/smiles. But this fun is not of impolite nature. An
ideal teacher has the highest degree of integrity. An ideal teacher is susceptible to adaptation or
modification.
Being flexible means that if students are not interested in learning a new or even a new good
lesson due to some reasons, then he is not recalcitrant regarding straightway teaching of the
lesson. Rather he talks about problems that have arisen in the classroom and eventually gets back
to the lesson.

An ideal teacher is concise and clear in both oral and written expression in the classroom. An
ideal teacher is patient. Being patient is often expressed as being diligent or persevering.

Learners are genius, gifted, mentally retarded, dyslexic, emotionally disturbed and some patience
is required for employing carefully individual teaching - learning technique for individual
learner. Only in this way, bits of progress can be observed day to day.

An ideal teacher is self-confident. The ideal teacher is a model of self-confidence. It is a source

of great pleasure and they show it in their facial expression and in their positive attitude around
the school. People always seem to have time to talk to a colleague or to do something extra for
the school or the staff. One key to be upbear is having a good self-concept.

An ideal teacher is open. This trait is related with willingness of the teacher to share happiness
about his own life to illustrate a point or share how they feel about a given situation. An ideal
teacher is diversified with regard to his preparation. This means that the teacher not only focuses
on specific areas but has considerable command on the related subjects. This diversification trait
will enable him to elaborate and illustrate the subjects in more persuasive manner.

The ideal teacher is an excellent role model. Being a good role model to all the children, teacher
whatsoever teaches is one of the greatest contributions he can make to society.

An ideal teacher is capable of relating theory with practice. In textbooks, there are suggestions
for doing things individually or as a group to enhance interest and motivation in teaching.
Learners can display these activities, if their teacher is capable of interrelating the theory in
practice.

An ideal teacher has good personal hygiene and is well groomed. He is always neat, clean, and
wears type of clothing that is acceptable in the school building in which he teaches.

He helps students having difficulties. Furthermore, he or she is disciplined, cooperative, friendly

with his colleagues and obedient to the head of the institutio

college classrooms to educate the young, as well as in the

workplace and other settings to teach adults and colleagues.
One-on-one teachers may tutor someone in a particular subject or for their wider
personal development.
However, teaching anyone can also be tiring, stressful and demanding. It is a
responsibility and any slip up is very visible. People's minds and motivation vary
a great deal and teachers have to find many different ways to connect with their
students.
Teaching is not always recognised for being the difficult task that it is in terms of
status or financial reward.

Skills Needed for Teaching

As well as subject knowledge, there are some other, more
general qualities that teachers need.

As a teacher, you should:

1. Enjoy communicating your understanding to others.
There is definitely a performance element to most teaching. Our section on interpersonal skills,
including effective speaking, covers this in more detail, and there is a great deal of overlap
with presentation skills.

2. Have confidence.
You will need the confidence to look calm and professional even when tired and stressed. See our
page: Building Confidence for more information.

3. Have great organisational skills.

Have you prepared for the session and done any marking in time?

Have you kept what is needed for anyone in the group who was away?

If you are part of a teaching organisation, have you fed back results to any interested colleagues?

You may find our page: Organising Skills useful.

4. Work effectively in groups.

In a school or college, you may be part of a group that teach at your level or within your subject. If
so, you will have to agree between you what is to be taught and how to deal with any difficulties.

See our page: Groups and Teams for an introduction to effective team working skills.
 5. Be able to deal with conflict.
There may be students who need to be told to work harder, or a disagreement between students
that you need to help to sort out.

Our page on Conflict Resolution provides some advice on how to do this.

6. Motivate your students to do their best.

This may require encouragement and/ or criticism, and probably a bit of both at different times.

Our page on Motivation Skills provides more information.

7. Empathise with your Students.

If you can see that your students are exhausted, there may be no point in trying to teach a very
complicated topic. You need to create a feeling that you are all working together towards the same
goal. This means building up trust and rapport.

See our pages on Empathy and Building Rapport for more.

8. Give feedback.
Whether this takes the form of comments on performance or marking written work, it needs to be
constructive. Offer praise as well as criticism whenever possible and tell your students how they can
improve.

Our page Giving Feedback will help with this.

The Best and the Worst of Teaching

What's the Best that can Happen?
 You get to tell enthusiastic people about a subject that you love.
 You may have interesting discussions that push you to think on your feet and expand your own
understanding.
 You see less-able students blossom and manage to get the outcome they need.

What's the Worst that can Happen?

 Lots of outside work may be needed to mark work or prepare sessions.
 Not all your students will be enthusiastic. Children and teenagers can be surly or downright rude,
while adults that you teach may have their own views on things.
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