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What Makes a Good Teacher?
Warm, Creative, Supportive, Prepared, and Engaging Teachers Resonate Best With Students
Grown-ups, no matter how far removed they are from their school years, can likely still name a favorite teacher. Great teachers have a way of remaining in the memories of those they taught for many years. Whether it was Miss Katie the preschool teacher and her puppet shows about expressing feelings or kindergarten teacher Mr. Jacobs and how well he explained marine ecosystems through fishing stories, most of us can recall a favorite early childhood or elementary school teacher.
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When we finish high school, we finish as graduates of a few dozen teachers. If we go on to college or technical school afterward, we become pupils of dozens more. In all those years as a student, what makes good teachers noteworthy? What makes us remember them years and decades after they taught us? Outstanding teachers have several common characteristics. They:
Love children
Are prepared
Know their subject matter
Engage students
Challenge their students
Teach lifelong lessons
Have excellent communication skills
Love and value students
It should go without saying, but if you don’t enjoy the company of young people, elementary education is probably not the field for you. Good teachers love their students and demonstrate their resolve to better the lives of future generations in their daily work. They respect their students, regardless of their age and skill, and make them feel special, important, and unique.
By creating a welcoming environment, they invite children to be themselves in a setting where they feel safe to express their full range of feelings. With warmth and compassion, they listen to concerns voiced by students and parents and build nurturing classrooms where students can feel a sense of belonging.1
Be prepared
The most effective teacher
Experience
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Teacher (Jun, 2011
–Jul, 2017) at Mahadeva vidyanikethan
Good Teaching