Teaching seems to be the last result for most graduates in my country Ghana. After moving from office to office in search of job but are not able to get one. they all find themselves space in the classroom with the hope of moving away for a better job tomorrow when the opportunity presents its self. Other senior high school graduates who do not get admission into the universities also end up in the colleges of education (teacher training institutes) with the hope of becoming a teacher either with or without an interest in the field?
A teacher is someone who willingly love this noble profession that shapes personalities, arming them with the right skills and expertise to change the world. True teachers are those who choose the profession willingly amidst myriads of careers, not some counterfeit instructors who out of want of job, board the teaching profession vehicle only to alight half-way when they get the so-called cheese-laden jobs later in their lives！
I think the teacher in the formal sense does require training to be in teaching as a profession as you are responsible for nurturing tomorrow's workforce. But to really enjoy teaching as a chosen career, you must have a passion for it or the challenges that come with today's diverse classroom can cause early exit from the system.
Many thanks,
Debra
A teacher is someone who willingly love this noble profession that shapes personalities, arming them with the right skills and expertise to change the world. True teachers are those who choose the profession willingly amidst myriads of careers, not some counterfeit instructors who out of want of job, board the teaching profession vehicle only to alight half-way when they get the so-called cheese-laden jobs later in their lives！
Hi,
Thanks a lot for the question
The qualities of a university teacher are at least:
1- Teaching skills
- Can adapt to the public in his explanations
- Expose clearly
- Is competent in the subject he teaches
- know how to explain
- Rigorous, accurate
- Is organised
- Answers student questions, is interactive with students
- Illustrates his remarks with concrete examples
- Uses simple language
- Uses adapted course materials
- Corrects important exercises
- Check that the student has understood correctly after an explanation
2- Skills in "staging knowledge"
- A concern to interest his audience
- Dynamic, energetic
- Has humor
- Is motivated
- Is alive
- Good speaker
- Good management of the table and the rhythm of the course
- Is inventive
- knows how to be respected, charismatic
- stimulates exchanges with students
4- Judgment skills
- Do not believe everything is obvious
- Is impartial in its corrections
- Just in his decisions
- Do not judge students when they miss
5- Empathy skills for students
- Open, understanding, listening to his students
- Can repeat without getting upset, patient
- That he gets on well with his students
- The teacher must feel responsible for his students and their knowledge, do not let the students fall because of their difficulties
- That he is not disdainful of students, does not take pupils for idiots, nor geniuses, knows how to put himself at the level of pupils
6- The personality
- Nice, nice
- smiling, happy
- In a good mood
- to dress well
- Confident
- Punctual
- Clever
Best regards.
Dr. Adel OUESLATI
Debra, thank you for replying soo swift to this challenging and bordering question. God bless you.
By way of saying a teacher, I would mean a person whose primary responsibility is helping students learning through guiding, directing, and scaffolding them to reveal their potential. Some of the significant behaviors that characterize a teacher include:
· An attractive personality
· A deep knowledge about the subject he/she taught
· Helpful so that students have trust
· Sociable and interactive
· Passionate about the subject he\she taught
Akwasi, what a great question!
Having been both a school trained educator and a teacher, I offer that there is a distinction. Any person with a level of expertise in a particular topic can be a teacher. As Tefera and others have highlighted, the "art" of teaching involves emotional and intellectual connections with those being taught. Good teachers are emotionally invested in their students success. Those don't need to be school trained and certified. A master machinist with 30 years in the profession can be a fabulous teacher. Conversely, a professional athlete with all of the natural gifts to be a star in his/her profession, may well be the worst teacher; often it's due to vanity or the inability to translate what they do to others. I contrast a "teacher" with an "educator." School trained and certified educational professionals have studied the art and science of educating a body of students to master the ability to "learn how to learn." Educators transcend subject expertise to broadly prepare students for what may come. inherent in educating, they teach specific skills but with a greater 'context.' Maslow's Hierarchy comes into play as educators should...master the increasingly complex levels of understanding that accrue as students age and the depth of knowledge expands.
- To me, a teacher is someone dedicated to make the next generation much better than his/her own- an individual who shapes the future by shaping the young generation. He/ she is not someone who works to make his/her living better but who strives to ensure the betterment of life for all others by using knowledge and understanding as his major tools.
According to Shulman it is necessary for a teacher to have knowledge of the content and pedagogical knowledge of the content. From my point of view a teacher who has both will always be implementing strategies to guide their students, it is important to update frequently because it is a way to show the coarseness of both knowledge.
Teaching is growth. No one is born with special attributions to teach,yet she bears the seeds of reaching for others illuminating their way into the journey of caressing knowledge/truth
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