What do you think a good teacher should be like?

Question

What do you think a good teacher should be like?

Answer 1

A good teacher is patient, flexible, innovative, organized and spontaneous.  They know they're not perfect and can apologize when they're wrong.  A sense of humor is great, but sarcasm should be checked at the classroom door - this is devastating to students in elementary and middle school.

Answer 2

A good teacher should enhance your knowledge to the next level. I went to college and I had some professors that were amazing and others that were total duds. In particular I had this one english professor who would do anything for his students. He would go above and beyond just being a professor. If we had a hard time with a project he would arrange a time to sit down in the library and help us out for an hour or two on his own time. I just thought that it was admirable that he did something like that. Being a good teacher is being more than just a teacher in the classroom.

Answer 3

A good teacher should be accepting and understanding of all students in the classroom. Some students have issues at home which causes them to act out in the classroom. That being said, a good teacher should be patient as well.

In a good teacher's classroom, lessons are well-planned, a good classroom management system is in place, and the students are engaged in learning and exploring. Students will look forward to going to class and learning.

A good teacher promotes life-long learning, and teaches students HOW to learn and gain knowledge rather than just having them memorize spelling lists and facts.

Further more, a good teacher knows his/her students and can recognize when something "is up" with a student and tries to help that student in every way possible.

A good teacher realizes that this is a job where you don't just "go through the motions."

Answer 4

Well, each teacher has their own unique way of teaching, like a footballer has different talents, but most children like a teacher who can solve people's problems if they're sad, if they are fun when they are teaching and they know what children want and they talk to them about those things and when they tell jokes. But also, it's nice when they educate rather than train. Basically fill them with interesting facts that they never knew before and make the lesson more interesting, they might want to find out more about the subject, that will help them in the exams. Also make the lesson fun, like make the children do role plays related to the subject and they'll laugh and have fun. Make the lesson interesting, help them and make them smile and learn.