Willing to learn, update his/her methods regularly, being open minded, hard working, being professional and lead by example.
To educate means, first, to teach what they need and not what I know and second, is to create opportunity to allow them to learn themselves.
Must awaken a "passion" (I cringe at the use of the word passion for describing relationships between teachers and students, but that seems to be what is most universally understood for the meaning of "awakening an intense interest") for the topic in the mind of the student, or at a minimum to appeal to the student's basic self-interest that s/he is learning something that will be useful for self-improvement, as well as beneficial to know for future gain and well-being.
The adaptive subject innovation to children context. Otherwise, just another story teller in front of the class.
A good educator focuses on learning rather than teaching, all the time.
Once that happens, the learning becomes the center of everything that the teacher and students are engaging with.
When the focus is on teaching, the teacher is more worried about what SHE should be doing.
On the other hand, when the focus is on learning, the teacher constantly thinks about what will work for the students, how best the students will learn, what resources will engage them in learning and so on.
FOCUS on LEARNING is the key.
Willing to learn, update his/her methods regularly, being open minded, hard working, being professional and lead by example.
Educator must be smart, able to learn, characterized in honesty with herself and diligence
Many of us desire to build up and express the essential qualities of a good teacher/ educator..
(@Punia, through our research, we are constantly learning! Related threads...)
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_an_ideal_teacher
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_teach_What_are_the_qualities_that_should_be_present_in_a_teacher_lecturer_Please_share_your_own_experience_for_effective_teaching
1) Honesty. 2) Mastering subjects to be taught & teaching methods. 3) Endurance. 4) Good personality.
A good educator is one, who enters into the classroom with the aptitude to learn rather to teach.
Good educator must have inclusive qualities, those may be:
I. Very engaging and holds the attention of students in all discussions.
2. Establishes clear objectives for each lesson and works to meet those specific objectives during each class.
3. Has effective discipline skills and can promote positive behaviors and change in the classroom.
4. Has good classroom management skills and can ensure good student behavior, effective study and work habits, and an overall sense of respect in the classroom.
5. Maintains open communication with parents and keeps them informed
6. Has high expectations of their students and encourages everyone to always work at their best level.
7. Thorough knowledge of the school’s curriculum and other standards.
8. Has incredible knowledge of the subject matter they are teaching.
9. Is passionate about teaching and working with children.
10. Develops a strong rapport with students and establishes trusting relationships.
http://teaching.monster.com/careers/articles/9144-top-10-qualities-of-a-great-teacher?page=10
I am agree with all of Our Panels. I just add one thing that a good educator should be a good human being.
But everything which is to ask perfectly proper characteristics and behaviors, how can I get these characters and consolidate. I have received a pedagogical training during my graduate studies and am grateful.
To be passionate and dedicated to its work, eager to give knowledge and foster learning, has extensive education (mostly self educated) in various fields such as - philosophy, history, literature, art, technique and technology. And most importantly, to love what he is doing and to do it generously.
Out of many teachers we had we remember a few. why?. Teaching is an art which does not come to one by mere posting as a teacher but by virtue of quality to share the knowledge to the right person. In this world there are few teachers and few students. Reverence to a teacher and the obedience of a student make a teacher great
maybe just a student could judge a teacher from students' viwe points. it is obvious that educators themselves are informed of necessary instructional qualities, but what makes an educator a good one is in the students' attitude toward his or her behavior and personality traits.
A great teacher respects students. In a great teacher’s classroom, each person’s ideas and opinions are valued. Students feel safe to express their feelings and learn to respect and listen to others. This teacher creates a welcoming learning environment for all students
A great teacher creates a sense of community and belonging in the classroom. The mutual respect in this teacher’s classroom provides a supportive, collaborative environment. In this small community, there are rules to follow and jobs to be done and each student is aware that he or she is an important, integral part of the group.
A great teacher is warm, accessible, enthusiastic and caring. This person is approachable, not only to students, but to everyone on campus. This is the teacher to whom students know they can go with any problems or concerns or even to share a funny story.
Dear @Sudev, here is fine depiction, summary of the essential qualities good educator/teacher possess!
I will bring some more threads related to this one with good responses.
http://civitaquana.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
- A good educator should have the following characteristics:
- A good educator is vulnerable.
- A good educator is trustworthy.
- A good educator is resourceful.
- A good educator is resilient.
- A good educator is patient.
- A good educator is passionate.
- A good educator is organized.
- A good educator is kind.
- A good educator is joyful.
- A good educator is inspirational.
- A good educator has grit.
- A good educator is generous.
- A good educator is forgiving.
- A good educator is fearless.
- A good educator is engaging.
- A good educator is evolving.
- A good educator is empathetic.
- A good educator is determined.
- A good educatorr is dedicated.
- A good educator is creative.
- A good educator is cooperative.
- A good educatoris compassionate.
- A good educator is caring.
- A good educator is adaptable.
- A good educator is accountable.
Please, see the following links for more information:
http://www.academiccareer.manchester.ac.uk/about/do/skills/
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/philosophy-of-teaching/nine-characteristics-of-a-great-teacher/
http://education.qld.gov.au/hr/recruitment/teaching/qualities-good-teacher.html
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/104138/chapters/The-Qualities-of-Great-Teachers.aspx
These are lovely quotations about educator:
- "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." ------- C. S. Lewis
- "To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
------- Maria Montessori.
- "I see myself as an educator." ------ Anita Hill
Dear colleagues,
@ Ljubomir
@ Hazim
Interesting answers and links presented by Ljubomir and Hazim .
Regards
A true desire to empower others to be like himself or better.
As I have promissed, here are the links to related thread and one good resource!
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_kind_of_characteristics_do_you_have_that_may_either_positively_or_negatively_influence_your_teaching
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_main_quality_that_a_teacher_must_have_in_order_to_maintain_the_students_attention_at_all_times_in_their_classes2
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_teach_What_are_the_qualities_that_should_be_present_in_a_teacher_lecturer_Please_share_your_own_experience_for_effective_teaching
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_qualities_are_essential_in_order_to_be_good_teacher_in_the_21st_Century
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_makes_a_great_teacher
Article Who is the ideal teacher? Am I? Similarity and difference in...
I think that the essential quality of a teacher is to have "a talent" for teaching! It is difficult to define "talent"! The only evidence are the students themselves. A teacher can be better by following some teaching algorithms, but cannot compete with a talented teacher. The above mentioned "properties" have just this purpose: to have better teachers.
Very important quality/skill is to listen your students and to learn from such feedbacks. Good educator accept good advices and improves herself/himself.
A good educator must be a good student too. He must be willing to learn from his students, his co educator and the environment.. A good educator should be academically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually prepared to face the challenges that he will face everyday. He must also be physically and mentally prepared. The business of education is the hardest business to manage, for in this business that we deal with the future of so many people, who may later in life will also deal with the future of one's country and the world in general.
Yes, Professor "Costas" talent for teaching is the essential quality of a teacher.
The quality of a good educator is the ability to deliver knowledge to student in the best way they understand it and receiving a good feedback from student
Some of the qualities that helped me as a trainer were: 1. Value your trainees immensely. Believe that they can receive the knowledge & put it to good use to make the World a better place. 2. Allow time for questions & challenges to what you speak. Receive feedback graciously, with due respect/value. 3. Humility. As a teacher you command an immense control on your students/audience. Don' t misuse it. Accept your own inadequacies in knowledge if the situation arises. 4. Relate to your trainees beyond just the teacher-taught relationship. 5. Don;t take yourself too seriously.
These are experience derived learning. Even today years after leaving training, I still sometimes meet people who just attended a session or two of mine but still remember it fondly, not for the content which must have been long forgotten, but for the approach to delivering knowledge.
Dear All,
I aver that the essential qualities of a good educator are the same as those of a good parent. It is the same skills (innate aptitude as a foundation, built upon by added socialization, moral-training, & education) of the parent, more than anything else, that sets the lifelong interest of the child in learning. The parent (later, the educator, who must subsume this authority role once occupied by the parents in infancy and early childhood) must be able to establish a link, a bonding of some trust (mutual interest in his future well-being) with the student, and demonstrate that the knowledge being imparted in class is tantamount to the wise counsel he has received (from parents and other trusted advisors) in the past, and link achievement in studies as certain and immediate achievement toward benefits and rewards, for example, to growth in self-esteem and prestige among his/her peers in class, but the good educator, today, must stay abreast of up-to-date ways to demonstrate a student's accomplishments among her/his wider social group of "e-friends," perhaps by establishing unique social-media [e.g., Facebook pages] for his/her individual classes, or sending Twitter posts for achieving certain expectations/marks.
All-in-all, I aver that a good educator is equivalent to a good parent, and can only flourish in an environment filled with students that have been reared by good parents. No matter how good the educator, if confronted with students reared by bad parents, s/he is likely to fail with many of them, and thus, unfairly appear to be a bad educator. It is terribly unfair to measure the educators without first measuring the students they have been assigned to teach (and perhaps, before that, if one is trying to fix BLAME, measuring the parents who reared them ... but, truthfully, must not we look even further than that, at the society in which the parents struggled ... and the government that is responsible for its condition ???).
Sincerely,
Bob Skiles
Dear All,
Perhaps as the most poignant example of the point I was trying to make above, I offer one from my own American society: It is no secret that school-children with Asian-American parents consistently out-test school-children with Anglo-American parents on college-entrance examinations. And they tend to continue out-performing throughout university levels of education, too. This is NOT due to any racial or genetic differences in the students' IQs (nor, nowadays, to any socio-economic differences ... if so, the results could be argued to be the wrong-way-around), rather is simply due to the fact that Asian-American parents tend to place a much greater emphasis on the importance of their childrens' educations throughout their childhoods (spending much more time helping them and monitoring their progress) than do Anglo-American parents (who tend to be, IMO, overly-permissive and inattentive in allowing their children to waste too many hours on mindless activities like watching TV, and other activities which may actually be harmful to their social-development and learning-ability, like playing anti-social / violent / criminal / murderous video-games too many hours of the day-and-night, and addicted to browsing social-media, instead of studying).
Respectfully submitted,
Bob Skiles
Sudev:
An essential trait of a good educator is one who inspires students to be the best they can be by the way they teach and in some cases mentor students. Good educators are role models for students so that students learn from them even when they are not directly teaching them but by simply observing how they practice what they preach.
Best regards,
Debra
The quality of a good educator? I believe one of the most important qualities is the ability to care for other people - your students, your colleagues, your school, your leaders. But also to care about your work, your reputation as an educator, your school and your career. Because, if you care about your students, you will not hide behind problems to explain poor results - you will find ways to support the students, if you care about your colleagues, you will not walk away when they experience problems - you will provide tangible and intangible resources to help them to develop, if you care about your career, you will strive to be an example of an excellent educator, and if you care about your school - you will not let this institution down. It is quite shocking to see how many of our leaders care only about their own careers, to such an extent that they will refuse to help others if they do not benefit from the situation ....
i think a good educator must have vast knowledge of the subject with excellent educating skills ( with practical examples)
Broad knowledge of subject matter, curriculum, and standards; enthusiasm, a caring attitude, and a love of learning; knowledge of discipline and classroom management techniques; and a desire to make a difference in the lives of young people make a good educator.
Another description of a good educator is passion and method used in teaching the student and also believing in the students
Another description of a good educator is passion and method used in teaching the student and also believing in the students
Essential qualities of a good educator:
1- Adaptable
2-Caring
3-Compassionate
4-Cooperative
5-Creative
6-Dedicated
7-Determined
8-Empathetic
9-Engaging
10-Evolving
11-Fearless
12-Forgiving
13-Generous
14-Grit
15-Inspirational
16-Joyful
17-Kind
18-Organized
19-Passionate
20-Patient
21-Resilient
22-Resourceful
23-Trustworthy
24-Fulnerable
25-Above all, God fearing
Teaching is a career that provides challenges, excitement, personal reward and a chance to encourage and support others to achieve their goals.
There are many personal qualities and skills that make someone a good teacher.
These include:
--being good at explaining things to others
--being a people person and enjoy working with a wide range of people
--enthusiasm
--having a strong knowledge in particular subject areas
--being a good time manager
--ability to work in a team as well as using your own initiative
--keeping your cool under pressure
--having patience and a good sense of humour
--being fair-minded
--coping well with change
--enjoying a challenge.
Good teachers know that by listening to and working with colleagues, parents, other professionals and community members that they can inspire students and improve their learning.
http://education.qld.gov.au/hr/recruitment/teaching/qualities-good-teacher.html
To be sure he does not need to be patient to be a teacher. According to Mark Twain, only those who are not patient will notice that patience is necessary.
Dear all
Maybe you want too much.
1- Adaptable
2-Caring
3-Compassionate
4-Cooperative
5-Creative
6-Dedicated
7-Determined
8-Empathetic
9-Engaging
10-Evolving
11-Fearless
12-Forgiving
13-Generous
14-Grit
15-Inspirational
16-Joyful
17-Kind
18-Organized
19-Passionate
20-Patient
21-Resilient
22-Resourceful
23-Trustworthy
24-Fulnerable
25-Above all, God fearing
26 knowledgeable
27 good humors
28…
Is there a paragon in the world?
For me a good teacher is the one who will help create the need in his students to learn more about that theme.
Good teacher/educator should know and demonstrate knowledge about individual students' backgrounds, interests, emotional strengths and academic levels.
http://www.apa.org/education/k12/relationships.aspx
Educator has a very holy status among parents ,children ,& students .It is educator who is very high responsibility to mold discipline ,character,moral course & ethics among students which offers him a right time satisfaction for his career as an educator.
With such responsibility for students ,educator to give justice to his professional he must be well equipped with his professional approach ,his depth of studies in the subject which he is involve so that he can part his knowledge to the student very much effectively .
An educator has a noble ,professional life career for his life mission he can certainly be proud of his contribution for making the students for successful life career with the ultimate end of making a better citizen .He has a full life satisfaction with the feeling that he has passed the life full of satisfaction .
This is my personal opinion only
I think the quote in this link expresses my view of the good teacher.
Many thanks,
Debra
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bradhenry167806.html
Qualities that a good teacher should have!
"Despite all the advances and applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the classroom teacher is going to be around for a long time to come, both at school and college level.
However, the process of education has taken a paradigm shift from being teacher-centric to student-centric. The student is now a client or customer of the teacher, and the focus is on how effective the learning rather than the teaching.
The profile of a student has changed drastically in the last generation, and child/adolescent behaviour needs to be understood in depth for the learning process to be effective. Hence the role, the skills and the attitude required of the teacher needs to be completely overhauled..."
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/512617/qualities-good-teacher-should-have.html
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"what are some essential qualities of a teacher? Here are 6 Essential Qualities of a Great Teacher that can contribute to the students’ achievement.
1. The Planner.
2. Great Motivator.
3. Good Leader.
4. Resource Provider.
5. Good Listener and a Support Person.
please, see the original article for more information....
http://www.spielgaben.com/6-essential-qualities-of-a-great-teacher/
Good educator must be wise and qualified.
But be careful, wise is something more than just clever.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one."
------ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Please, see how Good/ Great teacher is:
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward
Hard work is the basis for everything worthwhile you will achieve in life. Beside a good teacher must be a humble person and a good mentor too.
Although lots of good answers are given already. The summary given by Khaldoon Al-Obaidi is a very good overall ingredients and qualities every good educator must possess. Having said that, I must confess that although good teachers are amazing but they are rare.
According to EnkiVillage article every good teacher must possess the following qualities:
http://www.enkivillage.com/qualities-of-a-good-teacher.html
Everything You Wanted to Know About Being a Great Teacher But Were Afraid to Ask!
There seems to be a set of definite criteria that one must possess in order to be a great teacher. Great teachers are:
- Concerned with their students well-being. This includes their home and school environments and anything that might have an impact or bearing on the learning process.
- Demanding. They expect a lot of their students. From great expectations come great results.
- Fair. They do not show favoritism between I students and do not prejudge students according to the past behaviors. They do not hold grudges and start each day with a clean slate.
- Facilitators. They create an environment I where students can grow and become all that they can be.
- Continuing their education.
- Organized. They follow the motto: "A place for everything and everything in its place.
Source:
Rister, C. A. (1990). Everything You Wanted to Know About Being a Great Teacher But Were Afraid to Ask. Honors Theses, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1306&context=uhp_theses
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards"
- Anatole France
Good educators
- have a passion for teaching
- make concepts and principles simple and clear;
- give concrete and practical examples to illustrate the main points
- inspire and motivate the students
To know the God law, to practice it, and to have interest in an area of teaching.
I think knowledge of the subject, discipline, honesty, dedication and attentive to the needs of the students.
The essential qualities of a good educator are he/she must be willing to listen, update himself regularly, willing to learn, open minded, very hard working, good professional and a good human being.
Ability to be able to bring the teaching to the level of the class being taught per time. Keeping the teaching so simple with practical examples and patience to accommodate the different pace of the the students in term of understating
A lot of thing must be in good teacher. Thr essential qualities in a good teacher are:
- to be patient in your work
- to have a good method
- to listen a lot of your students
- to be dynamic
Excellent contributions by respected RG members. The most striking attribute to me is the ability to remain humble with the little you have gotten in life.
Educators Discuss the Qualities of a Good Teacher
Education is undergoing radical changes, and the roles and responsibilities of educators are changing, too. While technology is driving much of the change, it's not about to replace the need for strong curriculum and passionate practitioners. In fact, the passion that inspires people to teach has never been more important ...
In the end, of course, that's what success as an educational leader always comes back to - the commitment to go above and beyond, both in the classroom and the school community as a whole...
https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/news-and-events/2017/12/qualities-of-a-good-teacher
To be successful, a great teacher must have:
More details:
http://teaching.org/resources/top-10-qualities-of-a-great-teacher
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