Qualities of a good teacher docx

Qualities of a good teacher
(What makes an ideal teacher)

Teachers play an important part in training children,
teenagers and even people in their early maturity. Some
qualities of a good teacher that are crucial for determining
one as a good teacher are the teacher’s sound knowledge
in his/her major and its related fields, certain devotion to
and great love for his/her students and his/her ability to
inspire the students’ passion for studying either in or out of
class.

There is no doubt that knowledge is a quality/must for a
good teacher. In addition to his/her professional
knowledge, the teacher need to enlarge his/her general
knowledge on culture, society, humanity, psychology,
methodology, politics, history, etc. to provide his/her
students with what they need to know, satisfy their
curiosity and meet their requirements in any case.

Another quality that a good teacher should have is his/her
devotion to and great love for those who call him ‘sir’ or
her ‘madam’ in class. Generally speaking, the students are
not mature enough to behave properly. They are
sometimes really stubborn. Consequently, the teacher has
to learn how to handle the students’ troubles in a gentle
and affectionate manner. He/she should pay adequate
attention to the students and know how to keep calm in
any situation so that he/she can give the students some
advice when they are in need or help them distinguish the
right from the wrong.

Last but not least, a good teacher always succeeds in
inspiring his/her students’ passion for studying both under
his/her guidance in class and out of class by themselves. I
highly appreciate this third quality of a good teacher
because of its undeniable value. It is not always easy to
provide his/her students with all the required knowledge in
class; therefore, a good teacher can manage to make the
students motivated enough to carry on their active and
successful self-study at home. Obviously, teaching his/her
students how to study independently, creatively and
effectively is what a good teacher must do in any
academic setting.

In conclusion, to be a good teacher, anyone who devotes
himself/herself to the “coinage” of a succession of young
generations must keep on working really hard to enlarge
his/her skill and general as well as professional
knowledge, to accumulate experience in how to deal with
his/her students properly and to be able to inspire in the
students the true love, the increasing hope and the ever-
lasting enthusiasm to reach higher and higher levels of
education in their life. Those are important qualities of a
good teacher.