Teaching, since ages, has been acclaimed as a noble profession where there is dignity, respect and novelty! To become a good teacher, one is possible only he or she is dedicated, knowledgeable, passionate and so on. A Good Teacher discovers the hidden talent in a child and polishes it until the talent shows out in a crowd. A good teacher is he or she who can help students draw and discover their hidden source of positive energy on which they will lay foundation of their education. One should get to note that, until and unless we accept the child from within and take him or her as our own child, we can never be a true teacher, because teaching comes from within and so, when we love them, we are comfort with them then only a true teaching takes place. Today, there are many who took teaching as their profession. Yet, what qualities do we really bear to become a teacher to impart to our younger generation here for they are the leaders of tomorrow. Teaching can be a blessed profession while sometimes it can also be a curse to our generation.
I have an opinion to share considering the fact that responsibilities of a teacher are a dime of dozen, here is what I feel that’s make a good teacher.
Connection. A good teacher is one who connects with his or her students passionately; a teacher who merely enters the classroom, stand there for an hour reads aloud or dictates from the textbook and leaves the classroom hurriedly when the school bell ring is not really a very good teacher. A teacher should be able to feel the pulse of the classrooms and adjust or modify his or her teaching style or mode accordingly.
Communication. Communication is vital for anyone with teaching job to succeed at his place of work, Lack of communication skill will only end up with students either not understanding the subject matter at all. Hence, all good communicators may not be a good teacher but all good teachers are always a good communicator.
Love for teaching. This is by far the biggest factor that differentiates between 10 average teachers and 1 great teacher. All great teachers are a person who teaches simply because they love doing so. It isn’t about the money or the prestige or about earning the respect of their students, it is all about the love of teaching, it has been that way and it always will.
Humility. This I feel is an important quality of a good teacher and unfortunately a quality that one gets to see very rarely. A teacher with all I- know-it-all attitudes will no doubt impart all his or her knowledge to the students, but rare will he earn the respect or affection of the students.
Listening skill. A good teacher is always a good listener. He or she not only talks but also keenly listens to all his students have to say. If a certain topic or points is found to be debatable, a good teacher does not hesitate to open and throw the topic to the whole class and invite an individual opinion on the matter.
Once again, I lay a few more lines in addition to the aforementioned points stated above. A good teacher always motivates the student no matter how tough the situation is or how weak the student may be. A Good teacher is one who freely jokes around the class but is dead serious when the need arises.
A good teacher is one who in short span of time can turn the dullest and the most dislike subject into your all-time favorite subject. Oh! How I love that EVS teacher; A good teacher is one who is a leader but also is a friend.
A good teacher is one who always remains a student from within. These are my perspective on what makes a good teacher, a job as a teacher is not easy by stretch of imagination, to become a teacher does require the fulfillment of a certain academics qualification, but becoming a good teacher requires something much more than that.
Venetso Veyie GMS Rukizu Pfutsero
