10 QUALITIES OF GOOD TEACHERS

This list is a brief reconstruction from an earlier research designed to promote good teaching ethics in our society.
1.    A contagious enthusiasm for teaching. Enjoyment in transmitting knowledge is a key to success. His passion for teaching instilled a passion for learning in all the participants.
2.    Creative. Good Teachers go beyond opening the book and doing exercises. A good teacher engages the mind, not just the time of the student and employs a myriad of techniques that allows student to utilize the skills in their own capacity.
3.     Add pace and Humor to the class. A classroom where pupils are not afraid to make mistakes creates a good time learning and lots of progress achieved.
4.    Challenges the Student. A teacher who can maintain a level of difficulty high enough to challenge the student, but yet not too high to discourage.
5. Encouraging and Patient. Good teachers are aware that Motivation thrives on success. So they help the student apply themselves more diligently by encouragement and repeated attempts. They apply the policy of correction by never allowing even a shade of annoyance to cross their faces in reaction to continued incorrectness even after endless corrections.
6.    Interests in Individual Students. A teacher who takes interest in the student’s life style and desires will succeed in impacting more. The easiest, most accessible area of conversation is oneself.
7.     Knows well and can explain on the spot. A realistic and courageous trainer who demonstrate quest to know more even before the students besides being a guru in his field.
8.     Can offer extra times.  Good teachers appreciate students’ efforts and are never too in-a-hurry to attend to their quest outside the class. They encourage students not only to study what is required, but also to pursue other areas of interests.
9.    Shows Regard and Respect for All.  Regardless of sex, marital status or race, good teachers accord every student due esteem. A lack of this attribute is not conducive to progress and this can be discouraging to the student.
10.     Leaves Emotional Baggage Outside the Classroom. Keeping the student focus at all times as well as not blocking any learning by playing havoc with their emotions through ridicule or sarcasm. As a strategy, teachers can apply some form of acting too.