Qualities of a good teacher
Teaching is an exciting and challenging career, full of personal rewards and a chance to encourage and support others to achieve their maximum potential. In addition to the necessary academic requirements involved in becoming a teacher, students also need to develop the skills required to effectively teach and become outstanding teachers.
There are many qualities and skills that create an effective teacher, here are a few:
- Committed - Demonstrates commitment to students and the profession
- Communicative - Encourages effective two-way communication
- Compassionate - Caring, empathetic and able to respond to people
- Creative - Versatile, innovative, and open to new ideas
- Dependable - Honest and authentic in working with others
- Flexible - Willing to alter plans and directions which assist people in moving toward their goals
- Individually Perceptive - Sees each student as a unique and valuable individual
- Knowledgeable - Is in a constant quest for knowledge
- Motivational - Enthusiastic with standards and expectations for students and self
- Organised - Makes efficient use of time
- Patient - Is deliberate in coming to conclusions
- Personable - Establishes and maintains positive mutual working relationships
- Positive - Thinks positively and enthusiastically about people and what they are capable of becoming
- Humorous - Knows how to take the tension out of tight situations
- Value Based - Focuses upon the worth and dignity of human beings
