Teachers are human beings who decided to dedicate their energy, time, and life to enlighten the pathway of kids in need of education.
A teacher’s characteristics should be divided into three main parts: Personal, academic, and intellectual.
On the personal part, the best characteristic an educator would be called by is “caring”. I realized that the best classroom management skill that can always be used in classes is showing that you care. Caring show the kids that it is important to you to see them succeeding or failing in class and thus in life. Caring would lead to being supportive and encouraging to the students’ work. It would work for students aging 5-18 years. When a teacher cares, s/he respects, listens, trusts, and is always fair to the whole class. A caring teacher though is not the students’ friend. S/he needs to come up with rules to be followed by the students and by the teacher him/herself. It is okay to say that rules make our life easier and not the other way around.
On the academic level, teachers should always be available whenever their students need them. They are the Godparents available within the school time. A teacher is not allowed to ignore a student because s/he is busy speaking on the phone with a family member.
Children usually look to teachers as role models who simply know EVERYTHING. Do we? Of course we don't! We are human beings after all. But it is okay to show the students that we do know everything. A good teacher is the one who is always prepared and always ready to answer any question asked by the students. A teacher would come up with the questions students might ask concerning a particular subject. In that way, the teacher would be always prepared and ready to answer any question asked by the students. If you don’t know the answer, it is fine. After all, we don't know everything! In that way, a respectful teacher would encourage asking these questions and promise the students that they will come up with the answer the next day. That grown adult who the students look up to as a role model, should never suppress the students’ own thinking because they asked a question by which they don’t know the answer.
We all remember that one teacher who would link everything we learn to our everyday life. Every time that happens, we would run back home to our parents sharing with them what we learned and how it would help us have an easier life. In that case, education made sense to us. Sometimes, we forget that we were students as well and that what interested us will now interest our students. A smart teacher is the one who leaves an impact on his/her students’ life. Leaving an academic impression starts when the teacher learns how to link everything being learned to their students’ own life.
On the intellectual level, the smart teacher is the one who shows creativity. Not everyone is artistic, I understand, but everyone has Internet to use. Human beings get bored with consistent habits. Sitting in a class still to learn something new could be either fun or dull. Sometimes, teachers forget that their students are human beings and might sometimes feel bored in the class. To eliminate that from your life, as a teacher, you need to make sure you think on your students’ level. Reading could be about something that interests them for example (Your objective is for them to learn how to read). Math could be by using manipulative. Science could be through answering questions about a particular problem through different experiments. Be creative! If you are not, let Google be your best friend.
Science and Education is growing fast. There is something new happening every single day. The teacher should always be up to date and share with his/her students what is new happening in the field they are studying at home.
I think that being a teacher is like being Superman undercover. You can’t have a break even if you want to. Your students come first. And your heart will be welcoming one kid after the other. The beautiful part of being a teacher is the reward of love we receive. Try to follow some of these traits and you will do fine.
A teacher’s characteristics should be divided into three main parts: Personal, academic, and intellectual.
On the personal part, the best characteristic an educator would be called by is “caring”. I realized that the best classroom management skill that can always be used in classes is showing that you care. Caring show the kids that it is important to you to see them succeeding or failing in class and thus in life. Caring would lead to being supportive and encouraging to the students’ work. It would work for students aging 5-18 years. When a teacher cares, s/he respects, listens, trusts, and is always fair to the whole class. A caring teacher though is not the students’ friend. S/he needs to come up with rules to be followed by the students and by the teacher him/herself. It is okay to say that rules make our life easier and not the other way around.
On the academic level, teachers should always be available whenever their students need them. They are the Godparents available within the school time. A teacher is not allowed to ignore a student because s/he is busy speaking on the phone with a family member.
Children usually look to teachers as role models who simply know EVERYTHING. Do we? Of course we don't! We are human beings after all. But it is okay to show the students that we do know everything. A good teacher is the one who is always prepared and always ready to answer any question asked by the students. A teacher would come up with the questions students might ask concerning a particular subject. In that way, the teacher would be always prepared and ready to answer any question asked by the students. If you don’t know the answer, it is fine. After all, we don't know everything! In that way, a respectful teacher would encourage asking these questions and promise the students that they will come up with the answer the next day. That grown adult who the students look up to as a role model, should never suppress the students’ own thinking because they asked a question by which they don’t know the answer.
We all remember that one teacher who would link everything we learn to our everyday life. Every time that happens, we would run back home to our parents sharing with them what we learned and how it would help us have an easier life. In that case, education made sense to us. Sometimes, we forget that we were students as well and that what interested us will now interest our students. A smart teacher is the one who leaves an impact on his/her students’ life. Leaving an academic impression starts when the teacher learns how to link everything being learned to their students’ own life.
On the intellectual level, the smart teacher is the one who shows creativity. Not everyone is artistic, I understand, but everyone has Internet to use. Human beings get bored with consistent habits. Sitting in a class still to learn something new could be either fun or dull. Sometimes, teachers forget that their students are human beings and might sometimes feel bored in the class. To eliminate that from your life, as a teacher, you need to make sure you think on your students’ level. Reading could be about something that interests them for example (Your objective is for them to learn how to read). Math could be by using manipulative. Science could be through answering questions about a particular problem through different experiments. Be creative! If you are not, let Google be your best friend.
Science and Education is growing fast. There is something new happening every single day. The teacher should always be up to date and share with his/her students what is new happening in the field they are studying at home.
I think that being a teacher is like being Superman undercover. You can’t have a break even if you want to. Your students come first. And your heart will be welcoming one kid after the other. The beautiful part of being a teacher is the reward of love we receive. Try to follow some of these traits and you will do fine.
So we are all super men and women! I like the poetic element in your discussion.
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