Whether you are a teacher, a parent or a human resource professional, this article will help you know about the best professional and personality traits of great teachers.
Knowledge
1- Deep knowledge of the domain
2- Stays up to date and believes in continuous learning
Communication
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Good Empathic Skills
- Establish relationship with the student
Teaching
- Makes the subject interesting while teaching
- Encourages students to explore further
- Does not limit his teaching to books only
- Triggers curiosity so that students can investigate further
- Provides real-life examples to help students understand easily
- Recommends books and website references to students for further reading
- Pays attention to each student specially the ‘back-benchers’
- Makes the teaching an interactive session (not one-way lecture)
- Sets high expectation- provider print outs
- Uses right tool at the right moment (white board explanation, shows YouTube video, asks a student to re-explain, pictures, illustrations, prints handouts, info graphics, slides )
- Reduce overload
- Reduce distractions
- Takes frequent breaks
- Use educational games
- Practices Think-Pair-Share approach
- Promotes contradiction that lead to learning
- Encourages reading
Professionalism:
- Member of respective journals and forums
- Disciplined
- Classroom management skills
- Forward thinking mindset
- Record management
Personality
- Engaging personality
- Interesting (not boring)
- Kind, patient, caring
- Practices different methods of teaching and learning
- Adaptive learning
- Question based learning
- Experimental learning
- Knows how to handle different types of students (bullying student, dull student, over smart student, naughty students etc)
References:Prodigygame, Pearsoned, snhu
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