Dear Colleague

There are many ways but I suggest you may like to see my posting, A good TESOL teacher. I hope it helps!

What a teacher should do to inspire his/her students?

Think the teachers can perform the following:

The following papers should also be helpful: 

• Gurney, P. (2007) Five Factors for Effective Teaching, New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 4, 2, pp. 89-98.
• Khandelwal, K. A. (2009) Effective Teaching Behaviors in the College Classroom: A Critical Incident Technique from Students’ Perspective, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21, 3, pp. 299-309.

Dear Han Ping Fung,

Thanks for responding, I feel the last one Leading by example is most striking one

Convey passion for the subject you teach.  Passion is contagious!

 Dear,

I think that in addition to having all the qualities to serve as a good example to his students, a teacher should be an active researcher in the areas in which he teaches, adding value to his own knowledge.

Greetings!

Dear Vijay,  

Teachers should first love the subject they are teaching. I strongly believe that if a teacher does not love his/her subject as much as the flower loves its garden, he/she can't impress students by all means! 

Regards, 

Karwan 

Dear Karwan Mustafa,

True 'Love the subject", 'subject' he teaches and the 'subject' to whom s/he teaches.

An ordinary teacher only teachs his subject but a great teacher really inspires with his proficiency of his subject and instil confidence towards learning the subject and inculcate some values among children to live their lives in a meaningful way. 

The best way to inspire students is to be oneself, although it is important to have didactic skills and above all knowledge. The best way to generate an adequate interaction is to allow the student to show authentically.

Students like teachers mixing the actual subject matter with short excurses into its history, giving examples by solving problems with a clear flow of thoughts, approaches, and explanations, where the passages from one step to another one are not obvious, and difficult at the beginning.

It demonstrates the power of knowledge, and inspires and teaches the students in trying similar problems on their own. It is a necessary link in the further students' inspiration to connect any new material in how it can be used to solve actual problems, and combining and synthesizing it with the already well studied parts.

In summary, the inspiration is growing proportionally with the knowledge gained. 

A teacher is somebody who is imparting knowledge to students where the basic constituent of knowledge is the word, which is constituted out of seven pillars of knowledge, through which spirit is formed.  Now days we even know that a teacher affects eternity, which is being taught to the teachers. When we think about what qualities a teacher should display to inspire his/her students, we should know first the seven pillars of knowledge which are Truth, Justice, Love, Loyalty, Obedience, and Intelligence along with Wisdom through which all others are unified forming the word.  So a teacher should display these elementary qualities along with each word he/she delivers to the student, which normally makes any student to get inspired, if enough seriousness they posses in their heart.  These pillars can also be considered as the elementary attributes of a logical mind through which people are motivated / inspired.  When a teacher teaches a student this logic must be present in each word he/she delivers which is derived from logos through which the world is created.  A teacher can derive and use several techniques to inspire students based on these elementary qualities which also forms as the core values provided by value education.  Also these words are becoming the basic constituents on which the science cybernetics works with on its own foundations, which are related with spirit and life.

Thank you very much, sir, for making a very valid question among such a group of researchers and academicians. The best method a teacher could learn for itself to propagate the proper information, knowledge and values are only by understanding the process of framing the best possible simplicity for any chapter or issue no matter how much that would be tough to comprehend.   

If a teacher could know how to decode any materials into its best format of simplicity with being at the level of student, definitely, (s)he could convey to their students what (s)he wants to.

Subject knowledge (with practical version) with the confidence of preaching is another quality that is highly expected to the teacher. The teacher could know in a very clear sense in what particular subject matter he will have to use the inductive or deductive approach. 

Rather than that the moral values and character of the teacher has unique reflections on the mind of students for deciding the teacher's acceptance level to the students during their learning process. 

The most engaging teachers not only have all the qualities mentioned by others in this forum, they also know their students, have positive relationships with them, and understand how people learn.  They create aa culture of learning, respect diversity, personalize the instructional approach, and give students voice and choice in what they learn and how they learn it.  They are collaborative, do active research on how well their approaches are working, use sound learning principles and practices, and do not fear being human and making mistakes.  Mistakes at often key to deep learning.

Hi

To me, for this particular matter, among other things the teacher should:

1. Try to link his teaching to the real lives of students. Fore example, if you are teaching English as foreign language to a group of children you may tell them that if you know English you can easily understand the instructions of many games that you love to play...But if the students are university students, the teacher should inform them of the significance of knowing English in the global world for academic purposes, publications etc....

2. Take into consideration the students' individual deference and try to make his teaching more interesting for them by using technology, games, etc.

Hossein 

Many of the comments above I agree with. I do think that when it comes to the notion of inspiring others, especially in the teaching profession, relationships with the students is perhaps first and foremost, which requires knowledge of them and their existential situations, but the courage to be vulnerable around them. Moreover, it requires that you yourself have lived a life that has been inspired, or that you are at a place of reflection and reflexivity that the wisdom learned from your life can then in turn inspire others. How can we inspire others to act if we ourselves have not acted in inspired ways?

Thanks everyone for invaluable inputs

Teachers who share their passion for learning with students and demonstrate that passion by being an exemplary learner will inspire others. They model behaviors and attitudes from which students can select, practice, and learn. Teachers also study and use the enthusiasm their students show for learning as examples. Whenever possible, they create a learning community within their classes where students are encouraged to raise questions, reflect, and even share frustrations when learning gets challenging. Inspiring teachers celebrate the process of gaining knowledge, skill, and positive values.

I agree with the many valuable insights written above. I believe respect for the learners goes a long way in inspiring students to keep learning and exploring new ideas inside and outside of the domain being studied. Respecting students' questions will encourage students to keep asking but also inform me as a teacher of where my students are at. Respecting new or "out-of-the box" ideas students bring up will encourage students to keep exploring and thinking creatively. My response of engaging with their ideas also demonstrates the critical thinking we hope to nurture in our students. Respect goes a very far distance on the teaching and learning journey.

I also concur with the insights already shared, and would add that a teacher has to model an absolute love and amazement for learning--lifelong learning--which is contagious to (most) students. Being vulnerable/transparent enough to admit when you don't know something also inspires students to keep learning and not fear failure.

Apart from knowing the subject matter, being interest in teaching, and possessing a wide range of methods to reach mixed ability groups of students, the teacher should be able to relate the material to his/her students' lives, encourage them to think out of the box, work in groups, and do projects and presentations. The teacher should also do sustained evaluation to get to know where s/he is doing a great job and where s/he needs to reteach.  

Adding to all those qualities mentioned above I would say that the teacher must encourage student initiated questions. She / he must be able to see behind the questions in order to assure the students that their questions are well understood and valued no matter how small or big the question is. This way she / he can provide such a learning atmosphere where students feel comfortable and ready to reveal their uncertainty to prevent or demolish any misconception. 

The teacher student relation is a kind of mother Child relation, you need to love that student first, discover his/her GOD given potentials, help him/her to know those potentials and to act upon them, give him/her full attention. tell him/her that "He who says I can and he who says I can't  is right."  

For inspirational purpose a teacher should focus on all technological, pedagogical, content and all overlapping domains of learning.

What a teacher should do to inspire his/her students?

1.  shows a good character.

2. try to get as many as recognition national and international.

3.  patient to the  bad student altitude.

4. always give encouragement and motivation to student

5. be with them for the better and worst.

6. respect them as we want them to respect us

Thank you 

Self-inspiration is essential here too 

I agree with many of the responses above. I would reinforce the idea that students should see your passion for your subject. You must also be interested in your students academically and personally, be prepared to share your journey as a learner and as a person and connect your subject to the world of your students. The latter involves also  hearing from them about what they know and believe. It always helps too to occasionally share some nuggets of wisdom from a quotation.

Have Passion, express with a Passionate drive, Be Inquisitive and challenging, Probe their thoughts , develop their skill level, from their perspective, with meaning in their lives, with a benefit for them to be able to follow their Dreams. Share your dreams and be a sponge for them to learn how to follow their dream. Show them how to succeed with them following their dreams by projects and functions which feed the dream.

Feed their passion with the things needed to succeed in their passion.

Hello there,

A teacher must do everything under the sky that can positively inspire and motivate his students to become a better scholar and more than that a better human being, my answer might sound a little lame or general, but as teachers there is not one thing or a checklist of things that we can do to inspire our students. Like how each teacher and his teachings differ, the students also have their individuality, so everything that is done cannot be left to a mass approach, most of the times we might have to just tailor some to adapt to the students abilities so that he or she can readily adopt it for the better.

Hope this answer helps, good luck.

Regards

I definitely agree with Karwan and Sudeep.....You have to love what you are doing and have ideas to motivate and inspire students. Motivation comes from the teacher and i do try to connect my teaching with real-life situations. I love to read and i use some of the reading texts found on internet in class. There are so many interesting stories that can be implemented as teaching materials. This semester i teach ESP (Legal studies, Public administration, International Communications), i compiled a reader that i will use with my students. Moreover, i told my students to try to read and find interesting topics for discussion in class.....i told them that we will start the class with a debate about a topic that we choose is interesting for the class....my main purpose for this course is to develop students speaking skills....

One of the things that is truly inspiring to students in a higher education setting, is that the teacher brings in stories and experiences from the "real world". Trainee midwives don't like anything better than storytelling about actual cases.

Hello everyone!

Since we have excellent contributions to the questioning, I think that this could result in a joint publication, or even a book with chapters dealing with experiences about it, in the various countries and courses.

That's my opinion!

Greetings.

Wonderful ide, Osmar!  We could get others who want to contribute to suggest their focus and content, then organize these into an outline, then identify gaps and overlaps.  From there an outline of the book would surface.  We could identify major sections such as:  Theoretical orientations and assumptions, Research Methods, and Research Findings (perhaps broken into other meaningful categories).  I would be happy to help..

Many thanks, Barbara!

These are great suggestions and I think we will soon have new contributions!

To inspire his students, a teacher should be their advisor in all aspects of live, to be their friend, and to give them self confidence.

Self-determination theory suggests that if your learners have perceived autonomy (choices), competence, and relatedness (connection) they will experience well-being.  While not the same as inspiring, I will take well-being!

In order to inspire students, teachers must be an example, a model, a prototype. Firstly, teachers have to provide a comfortable atmosphere, promote self-confidencce, enhance students self-confidence. With discipline and love, with respect and tolerance. Secondly, teachers have to recognize students as human beings and help them to grow as people, later, teachers have to promote the learning of a discipline, autonomy, creativity, and the necessary challenges to allow them get success.

Osmar and Barbara,

I like your idea of gathering the responses. One observation I made was the uniqueness of contributions from various parts of the world. This might be something that could be further explored.

Dear Jane

I've been talking to Barbara, by message, to move on. Please send me an inbox message.

Thank you very much!

I agree with @Osmar Antonio Bonzanini

To inspire your students a teacher should be an example. To do this, the teacher must prioritize the updating of the contents that he teaches, direct or participate in research, development or innovation projects, publish the results of his research and participate in scientific events.

It is essential that the teacher ensures communication with the students in an affective atmosphere and arouses interest by actively participating in the dialogue and discussion with them based on the content of the subjects.

A teacher should make students feel the ownership of the topics being presented and discussed. They also need to feel that their contribution to the topic is  not only valued by the teacher, but also relevant to their daily lives outside the classroom. 

To do so, the teacher needs to select relevant interdisciplinary themes and interesting reading materials, encourage pair and group work, add project presentations, and do formative assessments to see if the learning objectives are being met. 

In student teacher relation there should be an unspoken agreement whereby each side goes half way to meet the other. When there are no assumptions or demanding expectations, the meeting point can be very inspiring.

I agree wholeheartedly! Students see you as a genuine person who really cares about them.

Thanks everybody for responding

Approachable, available and understanding!

Up to date with your subject, communication skills, able to deliver the session in an interesting way