Friday, 25 September 2015

The perfect teacher

We all have that favourite teacher we will remember forever, that teacher that we never wanted to miss their class, and the ones that made us sad when they were absent. The question is, what made them be so great, and win our hearts. Well here are the five qualities I believe make the perfect teacher. 
As obvious as it may sounds, a perfect teacher must know all there is to know about the subject they are teaching. This is sometimes overlooked as it happens that teachers are require to teach different subjects, but a great teacher commands respect through their wide knowledge and enthusiasm for the course.
Make a class fun can't be easy, but an enthusiastic teacher can make any course interesting and will get more students involve. Although a class can't only be games, a teacher can make it enjoyable by involving students in lessons, changing the way they are thought and involving students in every step of the way. In my experience in the resource room, I've had the chance of seeing miss De Souza help students to get into the subject they didn't want to study to begin with, and I believe her enthusiastic attitude is what allows this happen. 
Organization is key to make a class flow smoothly through the content that must be thought. Although we can't expect a perfect smooth class because their will always be bumped along the road, in my personal experience a class is more pleasant when your teacher has an outline of what is suppose to be done in a timeframe. Having their lessons planned and organized doesn't only help get the class started faster but it also helps students to be organized as well and this all will lead to better studying methods and it will be shown in excellent marks. 
Being approachable couldn't scape this five qualities, as it is indispensable for a student to be able to communicate with his teacher for a better learning. Teachers that make students feel as their are equal to them are much more relatable and in my opinion make the students want to do better on their class to live up to them. 
Last but not least, a teacher most know their audience. Teaching a grade 9 class is not the same as teaching a grade 12 in my opinion. Over the years grade 12s have developed qualities that grade 9s probably hasn't, they have different interests and expect different things from a class. Some teachers may forget this, when they go teaching grade 9s in first period to teaching grade 12s in the second, but it is very important as makes students enjoy the class and also respect their teacher. 
In the resource room I've had the chance of seeing different teachers, and students in different grades which has made me realized that what might make a teacher for me and some of my classmates in grade 12, is not the same for students in different grades but for what I've seen, I believe that perhaps the greatest trait a teacher can have is to be comfortable enough to show that they’re human. They celebrate success with students, show compassion for those that struggle, tell stories from their own lives, share their quirks, laugh at their own mistakes and are not afraid to be imperfectly human in front of students

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