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

Mahavir Balmukund Varma

thank you professor for your answer

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 Alsamydai : " 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 Alsamydai

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.

Thank you all for your answer i really appreciate

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 is a humble and caring student, and a great teacher is a teacher whose memory is remembered and never forgotten.

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.