Unit 1

1.4 Characteristics of a good

teacher
 Characteristics of a good
teacher

R.A.V.E
R is for Relevant
A good teacher:-

• relevant to the goals and objectives of the course

• relevant to the subject matter, in this case, Indian

Sign Language

• relevant to the student, in terms of age, background,

interests
 A is for Active
• Traditional School Education
The student passively listen
Copy down what teacher says
Write on the board
Is the students' body system not active? Or Is their brain active?

• Good teacher
Promote active learners
Learning is an important process of best practice (active)
Without practice, Learning is impossible
V is for Visual
Deaf students generally learn in two ways only :-
• SEEING is being Visual
• DOING is being Visual

People are divided:-

• Hearing people who are audial learners
• Deaf people who are visual learners
E is for Enjoyable
• Games are a very effective means of teaching and learning...
provided that the activity involved in the game is closely related to
the subject of study.

Games as a teaching/learning tool in Unit 5 of this module

R.A.V.E is a useful mnemonic for creating a good teaching and learning

environment
 Look at what a good teacher
• Administrator? Enforcer?
• Authority Figure? Encourager?
• Advisor? Expert?
• Advocate? Empower-er?
• Guide? Entertainer?
• Game organizer?
• Resource?
• Role Model?
• Referee?

(The answer is yes) The job of teaching is not signal activity. (Somethings) It involves a combination
of activities. Which activity is most important depends on the immediate task at hand.
How would learners define a good teacher?
Students of ISL will have gone to Indian schools. Their experiences
learning English and other languages in school will influence what they
expect from a language teacher and from a language class. In Indian
schools, languages are usually taught using outdated language
teaching methods. Such methods include grammar-translation and
rote repetition. When they start learning ISL they may expect that it
will be taught in the same way. And they may react negatively to any
other teaching method... at least until they understand that the
traditional methods are often ineffective –in addition to being tedious
and boring!
How would a teacher define a good teacher?
This last – how a teacher defines what a “good teacher” is – is
ultimately the perspective which we will take here, for you yourself, as
teacher, will decide how you act in the classroom (and out). To develop
a sense of what defines a good teacher in your own mind, we need to
look at teaching both in terms of results and in terms of process.
 Motivation
• Negative motivation of teacher
Traditional schools
Teacher centred
Wrong
Red pen
No Influence
Are teacher motivating negative to students?
• Positive motivation of teacher
Modern teaching
Student centred
less negative
Very good or right
Some mistake but Explain other ways
Red pen. Add give advise or explain
Influence
Are teacher motivating positive to students?
Example:-
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKMAv4A7IM

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k20zZu1Md64&t=9s