Teaching is a hard work.. & to be a good teacher or educator means to have certain characteristics/criteria.. So, my question is: In your opinion, do you feel that you fulfill these criteria for being a good teacher/educator?
As most of my dear friends mentioned answering to this question should be done by our students and nobody can claim she/ he is the best but our consciousness are in peace as we try our best and do our job by love and whole cells.
د. علي عبود مالك
Ali mohamed rashed Mohammed Kemal Fateh Mebarek-Oudina Rzger A. Abdula Amal Saadoon MajeedThank you dear colleagues for giving some of your time to answer the question. In my opinion, self assessment is the first step to improve my performance.. It's not enough.. I totally agree, could be biased.. also agree.. should be done to a standard set of indicators.. 100% agree.. BUT.. doing it makes me more aware about my weaknesses as well as my strengths.. so that it can help me (as a teacher /educator) for a better performance in the future..
At the same time, having an external auditor (as you mentioned by the students or any other party) is essential.
I feel myself a good teacher but my students don't like me as I ask unusual , difficult questions where mind is to be applied and reasoning in students is poor now a days
You can only feel it when others do appreciate or compliment you based on how you impact and impart upon them......that feeling when you are passionate about what you do and try to give out your best did make you believe or feel you are a good teacher
But others are the best judges...or can best describe u
1-Good lecturer motivates the students to let them get the maximum advantages or profits from the class.
2-Make friends with my students.
3-My students do not hesitate to ask me, while i always show them I am very interested in their questions.
4- I make practice tests to reduce their anxiety.
5-I always have goal in each single lecture as well as I Keep the classwork organised.
6- I have extracurricular activity to motivates them.
This is determined by the students but simply you can know that you are a good teacher when you find students love you and innovators in your lesson.
As educator, I try to help people and organizations to reach their full creative potential without routine teaching methods, which can be automated today, e.g. basic facts training. In this respect, I have made substantial professional progress, concerning the changing role of an educator In our time, i.e. I do not teach or lecture, but give only non-redundant inputs and let discover by free will.
Ask my students and their parents and you will get a partial view of the answer, since the students' learning is not based on loving me, but on trusting my knowledge and striving to improve.
Moaid K Hussain Satish Narula Afraa Ibrahim Sajda Taha Mahmood Alaa H. Dwelee Ali A. Al-Homaidan
"To develop professionally and provide quality education, you’ll constantly need to self-evaluate and reinvent yourself. You will have to push your pride aside and analyse where you have gone wrong and what can be improved within your classes." Joanna Zambas: 20 Essential Skills and Qualities Every Teacher Needs. 2018.
Also:
Instructional Job Aid-Assessing Your Teaching Effectiveness. Learning and Teaching Centre. British Columbia Institute of Technology. 2010
http://www.northernc.on.ca/leid/docs/ja_teacheffect.pdf
Also: Rachel Tustin. Why It's Important to Evaluate Yourself as a Teacher. 2017
https://study.com/blog/why-it-s-important-to-evaluate-yourself-as-a-teacher.html
Also:
Chan C.(2010) Assessment: Evaluating your own Teaching, Assessment Resources@HKU, University of Hong Kong.
https://ar.cetl.hku.hk/pdf/EvaluatingTeaching.pdf
Hayder Naser Khraibet Al-Behadili
Totally agree with you. Thank you
Stephen I. Ternyik
As if you are in my mind.. you did express what's in my mind in nicely written words. Thank you
Every teacher tries to be a good teacher. However, due to limitations in many respects it become very hard to be a good educator.
Nazia Asad
& this is the AIM of self assessment .. To identify -by ourselves- which areas to be improved.. Thank you
Respected Rajaa A. Mahmoud , all areas need to be improved, it is lifelong process, it never ends.........Good Luck!
I am trying best giving 100% efforts for teaching & try to become good friends of students.
"The function of education must be based on humanism" I have been working in a lot of institutes and schools, being a teacher, vice principal and specialist in certifying committee and I'm sure there are no bad teachers. Nowadays they are heroes, the best people of the society, the moral foundation of the state- decent, creative, intelligent, humanistic, well-educated altruists and stoics.
“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
― James Joyce
حب الطالب للدرس والماده ويحضر للمحاضره بشغف ولا يحس انه مجبور على حضورها وكذلك يحب قراءة هذه الماده دون غيرهاويحبون طريقه استاذهم ويحترموه هذا حقا استاذ ناجح والحمد لله هذا مااخبروني به طلابي عن محاضرتي
يعتمد ذلك على مهارة وكفاءة العملية التدريسية التربوية للمتعلمين وزرع بذرة حب المعلومة والدرس في نفوس الطلبة وإيصالهم إلى مرحلة
التشويق والتفاعل والانسجام مع حلقات العلم
i am good teacher because
a teacher responsible for giving knowledge, obedience, truthiness and their success
Rajaa A. Mahmoud
It depends on the students. Good students would respect the teaching process and enforce the teacher to do his best efforts. In General, the teacher needs to be open minded and patient.
I hope that
I try to be a good educator and give all my own duties to the students, Thank God, my students told me that I am a good teacher but that is not enough
The teacher must develop himself continuously, especially with regard to scientific subjects and learning skills
Yes i do feel so. I hv seen so many good teachers and learnt from them.
And the juniors alys appeciated me as a good teacher.
I don't know whether I am a good teacher or not but I am doing my duties with utmost care.
Really a question for my students, but if they had concerns they would tell me. I got them excited about the subjects I taught them, so I think I performed my duties to their satisfaction.
As most of my dear friends mentioned answering to this question should be done by our students and nobody can claim she/ he is the best but our consciousness are in peace as we try our best and do our job by love and whole cells.
I am playing both roles depend on student. Some time a great teacher and other time being a educator.
Best
Dr.Arun
J. M. Koli Raad Suhail Ahmed Adnan Zainab Nizar Jawad Abdellah LAMNII Wafaa Alhashemi Abdul Kuddus Mohamad-Hani Temsah Md. Saidur Rahaman Nagalakshmi Radhakrishnan Basheer Raddwan Rawaa Kamel Abd Partha Sarathi Swain Geddada Mohan Narasimha Rao Michael Issigonis Parisa Ziarati V R Arun Prakash
Thank you dear colleagues for the wonderful responses & your valuable opinions.
All the best, regards
Irina Mikhailovna Pechonkina
Thank you answer. It really gives a positive feed back & makes it great to think that the world is still good in some of its parts..
Note: I loved the quote .. Thank you.
Best regards.
The answer to such questions should be from our students In general I try to be at my best with my students
To be a good teacher, one first has to be a good learner.
I, on my part, keep trying my level best to share whatever little i know of anything with people for whom this knowledge could be of use.
Debopam Ghosh Rana Roy Shakir Tuleab
Thank you dear colleagues for your valuable comment & answer. Totally agree with you.
Good teacher is good educator definitely but good educator may/may not be good teacher
Teacher= knowledge, delivery, composure, patience, unbiasedness and mentor ship.
Thank you for the chance to answer this question, I would first attempt to reframe the question as this. Do you believe your student and those you guide and mentor see you as a good teacher, mentor, and guide? There are many who see themselves as great teachers who are pompous egomaniacs that are the conversation of the Student Union Lore.
I believe the greatest of teachers and mentors have a great deal of humility and understand we are constantly learning from the world around us and in this we are both the student and the teacher. A teacher, mentor and counselor who does not believe they learn from their students, is not fully invested in the education process. They are like stale bread, they were once fresh and were able to nurish the students with their guidance but have grown old and stale.
I know alot of information, I have dedicated my life to learning and sharing the lessons of a life well lived and the knowledge gained from both experience and in education. I strive to reach the point of application in everything that I learn so that it is now an active part of my life. I do not deal in concrete facts and understanding so I will always be interested to see another's point of view. In being able to see the world through at student lens, it gives me perspective and understanding of the world they live in. It also provides a fresh point of view to look at my own perspective and recognize my bias.
Am I a teacher, mentor, guide and elder, YES! Am I good at it? I do my very best, but I am a traveler in this world continiously learning until the end of my days.
Good teachers like teaching, love their subject, and enjoy students of whatever age they teach.
Francis Dailey
Thank you very much for your valuable answer. In my point of view, doing the best we can & seeing the world through out the students' side are essential requirements for improving our performance as teachers & educators. I totally agree with you.
Kindest regards.
Fares F. Fares
Performance evaluation is an important factor in improving our work. I totally agree with you dear.
Kindest regards to you.
Hi all,
For me I never hesitate to ask my students to give me their point of view on my methodology and way of teaching. Based on their answers I try to improve my methodology.
Thank you dear Said Agounad for giving some time to answer the question. Indeed, our students' feed back is crucial in improving our performance.
Thanks & best of luck to you.
Hi,
I feel "teacher" is not just an academic position. I would call many of my friends, teachers. They would educate complex science in simple words (the way they have understood it). Till date, I remember their explanations.
To answer the question we have consider the opinion of the student , and regard what they think about . If you used to out line the learning out come of your subject ,and teach by using clear strategies as well as applying approved method of evaluation, you be very good educator.
When the teacher is renewed and creative in his work is successful.
A teacher is only as good as her learners figure out ten to twenty or more years later that she had impacted said learners. Asking a teacher if they’re good at teaching may be a question that will be answered in a self serving way. The hardest one there is. Being modest about what we do as teachers and recognizing we may have to be perseverant _in spite of_ poor recognition of the value in critical thinking nurturing we are trying to add shall make us better teachers. We teach most to our children. Then it is them who recognize least the influence we may have had. It may even be better that way. The best teachers may be after all those with the largest influence without even knowing it.
Rajaa A. Mahmoud -
It is not easy to get unbiased answer here. However, good teacher should motivated to teaching, able to use technology, warm, and accessible.
When I was teaching, I made full use of resources available to ensure I had all the information required for my students. I engaged with each of them individually to see how they best learned and I think forming a bond with every single person ensures a high standard of teaching.
I have now returned to studying and it is disappointing for myself, and fellow students, that there is often a lack of information. I think having necessary information available straight away is an essential skill for teachers if they wish to do their job well
Hello, I'm a university teacher. I'm highly qualified and experienced. I teach my students to develop learning skills, encourage research endeavors and promote the idea of life-long learning. I hope I can awake an echo in their hearts.
What a great topic! (everyone has a good story - that helps increase your RG rate :-)) Here is my story: I teach folk music for small children - what is a really happy thing. They are so excited and love to sing and play the instrument. And I'm a university association professor, where I guide my student to be an excellent business expert. Once I got this mail:
'Dear Professor Kurucz Attila,
I am beyond grateful for the words you wrote to me in your recommendation letter.
Teachers like you are the ones who create not only good students but also good people.'
Who knows if I'm a good teacher, but I have some impressive moments.
A good teacher inspires his/her students and brings out the best in them
I am not a teacher, however I remember a joke from the time I was student. A teacher reply to a student playing with low results during the exams "I have explained to you so many times so finally I understand it my self". Meaning is that being a good teacher is not time dependent. You can be enrolled in an University as a teacher, or play the same role to same young people around you.
In other hand, the question herein invite to be reflexive in answer. But reflexivity, by itself, is not a proof for truth.
The teacher himself cannot answer this question. Let the students evaluate
Dear Rajaa,
A good teacher is a good educator. A good teacher knows his/her contents very well, knows their students' need and deliver accordingly. A good educator also does the same. Both have their passion, commitment to teach their students including other criteria. It is tough to get an impartial assessment on whether a good teacher/educator or not but asking students is one of the indicator.
Good question. It is difficult to draw the line. A personal dimension is needed to differentiate the two. You can explain things technically but to inspire your students is not easy. It depends on whether we get along as well.
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