QUALITIES OF A GOOD TEACHER

QUALITIES OF A GOOD TEACHER

An individual professional who embraces teaching as his or her job should possess certain qualities:

(i)                He must be self-confident;

(ii)             He must be emotionally stable;

(iii)           Self-control;

(iv)           Possess a very good knowledge of what he teaches;

(v)             He needs be a pleasant model to the learners;

(vi)           Compassion, forgiveness, patience and tolerance must be parts of him;

(vii)        He must be organized and resourceful;

(viii)      He must be generous and friendly;

(ix)           He should be able to motivate the learners;

(x)              Must be able to pursue clear lesson objectives;

(xi)           Must have effective discipline skills that can change learners from bad to good;

(xii)         He needs have good ability to communicate with the learners’ parents;

(xiii)      Good classroom management skills;

(xiv)       Ability to get along well with the different categories of (fast, average and slow) learners in the classroom.

The qualities are almost inexhaustible, but a teacher who is armed with all the above is a tremendous classroom achiever.