In your opinion, what is the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher?
and what are the main teaching styles and how they Impact Students?
I agree with you Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak . Great teacher inspires his students the great ideas.
Teaching is a multicomplex task.
To be good, especially the greatest, requires appropriate personality and skills of communication, vision for learning, desire to produce and contribute.
Perhaps, say the best ten teachers we encountered will be considered as "good", but the very best among them is "the greatest". Could it be that?
It all comes to the outcome, I believe.
It may have to do with how well this teacher is remembered, how many distinctions of any kind, formal or informal the teacher obtained, what output was given etc.
Konstantinos Karampelas
I appreciated you take time to answer my question, you clarify the idea thank you
Every good teacher may/may not be great teacher and vice versa,very few are good and great, at the end teaching matters
I think ,everyone can be a good teacher but few are great..
A good teacher is the one who only teaches while a great teacher is the one who learn and teaches .
A good teacher teaches while A great teacher forms strong relationships with students and show that they care about them as people
A good teacher is the one who chosses the best for competition, A great teacher is the one who encourages the weakest to participate without fearing of the outcome
Briefly, the great teacher inspires......
Hanan Azzam
Your response to my question is fruitful. Thank you for taking the time to point out the difference
Hi Ali,
Great teachers have:
1-Excellent subject knowledge.
2-Excellent professional knowledge.
3-Excellent professional values.
However, they also have a good sense of humour and are creative, adaptive and sensitive to students' changing needs and changes in the learning environment. They reflect on their practice and develop it as well.
Have a look at this if it helps:
https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ETF_Professional_Standards_Overview_Poster_AW1.pdf
Dima Khazem
Thank you for the response. I really appreciate you taking the time to write all that.
Becoming a "good" teacher is quite an accomplishment in itself! Meeting curriculum standards while meeting learners' diverse needs is how I define that inviable status. To move to a "great" teacher status requires a commitment to keep learning about all aspects of teaching, including new and emerging areas of pedagogical research PLUS a commitment to apply such knowledge with your own practice and analyze and interpret results. Great also being "humble" in my mindset, because there comes the recognition and acknowledgment that there is no end to improvement for the teacher's professional growth and the learning of the students.
Good teachers know their subject well and can communicate with students in a professional and competent manner. They do the job well. Great teachers go above and beyond. Great teachers are truly student-centered. Great teachers provide a caring and safe environment that encourages students to be creative and take risks and grow and learn for the sake of learning and not merely capturing points. Great teachers inspire students to want to learn autonomously, independently, long after the class ends.
A good teacher lead the students in the class but a great teacher lead the class in the whole world.
A good teacher may be appreciated by their students but a great teacher is the idol for the entire world.
In my opinion, a good teacher knows what he is talking about, knows how to transfer that knowledge and has a fair system for grading students. A great teacher has this qualities, but also the ability to motivate students, make them love the subject and to move beyond the knowledge he gives in the classroom. Also, great teachers leave a positive mark in every student.
As someone who has been both a teacher and teacher educator for over three decades, I believe strongly that a great teacher is one who recognizes that it's more important to know one's students than it is to know one's syllabus. I strongly ascribe to an Ethic of Care (See Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education – 1984 ) in all of my teaching pursuits and try to instill this in the future teachers with whom I work. I don't see myself as a "great" teacher, but I believe that this ethos has made me, and my students who ascribe to it, that much better.
It would be very difficult to differentiate between good teacher and great teacher because in contemporary academic setup, teachers are more interested of their academic development rather than spending time with the students. Those who have good academic impact in terms of publication of papers, articles, books, conferences, having research projects etc are often spend less time in their respective department and with their students. Therefore we all are an average teacher not even a good one. Good teacher are the ones who just fulfill their basic duties as per the syllabus, who complete the basic content etc but great teacher produces great students, great leader, who can handle the real life situation.
Ali Al-Samydai : " In your opinion, what is the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher? "
I support Dhanraj Rai , and for me: (1) good teacher based on their evaluating teaching and (2) great teacher is more on students' evaluation.
To me, a good teacher has good knowledge and methodology to convey it to his/her student but a great teacher has a positive influence on his/her students. not only in term of academic aspect but also morality, behavior.
"It is precisely this ability to glimpse what's going on in the heads of the students that always distinguished the people gifted for teaching from those who exercise this profession as a any ordinary job" (Glasersfeld, 2004, in french])
Good teacher arises from the education, but the great primarily based on experiences in life.
In your opinion, what is the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher? Ali Al-Samydai
Specially, the differences are in using teaching methods. Great teacher teach through sense of love, building anything together, creating 'a warming situation', conducting in love, and feeling happiness. While a good teacher teach used a formal scenario.
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime。
In my opinion, good teacher be able to teach student the way to solve problem, great teacher can help studnets to find their own way to solve problem.
I think that in the term "great" about the ability to teach in a good way, yet another moment is important: To have found public recognition, charisma and exemplary effect.
A good teacher transfers knowledge effectively. A great teacher does more than teaching; inspires students and can never be forgotten.
I agree with you Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak . Great teacher inspires his students the great ideas.
A great teacher develops ALL his pupils, and many of them become great people.
A great teacher teach mainly based on her experience and the good one on teaching knowledge. The experiences are skills and attitude where the teacher can use any instructional tools. That is my experience, so I suggest please bring our students to get skills and beyond common attitude. If good teacher particularly for intellectual, while the other one 'smart'. So the linear combination is an alternative.
A good teacher is the one who is constantly updated to train quality students, who overcome their deficiencies or reduce them by acquiring the skills that help them function socially, physically and psychologically in society.
A great teacher is the one who apart from the above takes the time to observe and speak; Knowing the environment in which the student and the student live before starting the training process, together with the experience, availability, vocation to serve and love and respect, makes a good teacher an excellent teacher. Remember that a teacher is not only an educator, he is a personality trainer, each individual has particular needs, although the classrooms are saturated, he can take advantage of the students themselves to support the least fit, and seek a balance that leads to equity.
To attend a lecture of a "good teacher" students rush to the class room.
For a "great teacher" students are in the classroom much before the teacher arrives.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires..
When it comes to effective teaching, strong communication skills are a must, said Daniel Tanguay, senior associate dean of education faculty and programs.
Teachers that are skilled in listening and observing often pick up on what isn’t being said, such as any anxieties a student may have, and can then help the student build their skills and confidence levels, said student Kristine Ducote, who is earning her bachelor's in criminal justice.
Working in education means you’re never truly working alone. From paraprofessionals and teaching assistants to other classroom teachers and school leaders, working as a teacher often means working effectively in a group. The key to success in this kind of environment, Tanguay said, is the ability to collaborate.
Effective teachers need to be able to work in a constantly evolving environment and adjust their teaching methods based on the age of their students, the resources available and changing curriculum, practices and requirements.
Being able to engage students with humor, creative lessons and a strong classroom presence is an important part of what makes someone a good teacher, Tanguay said.“If you were to envision that teacher that you would want in your life, even now, you’re going to want someone who is very engaging in front of the classroom,” he said. “A good teacher will perform for their students to keep them going... It’s not about sitting back and just lecturing, it’s about engaging in the work.”
Another key to engaging students and improving their learning is to treat each student as an individual, by being empathetic and understanding to what may be going on in their lives, Tanguay said.
Teachers who bring their students’ learning into the real world are often some of the most engaging. But it’s important for teachers to bring their own learning into the real world, too.
One of the key skills needed to be a good teacher is a dedication to continued education and a love of learning.
Whether you’re learning more about your subject area, learning new methods of communication or even exploring how to bring more technology into your classroom, continuing to expand your own knowledge is key to expanding that of your students.
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