Qualities of effective teachers

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 465.

The list below gives some qualities that teachers might posses. Decide if this quality is important (I), Useful (U), or Not important (N).

READING

Here are a number of quotations about teacher's profession. What is your opinion about the following quotations? Read the quotations and choose two of them to discuss.

· A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers

· A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams

· If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ~Margaret Fuller

· A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown

· When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud

· The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

· To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert,

· Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ~Marva Collins

They love to teach……..

They speak many foreign languages ……..

They have a lot of hobbies ……..

They make difficult topics easy to understand ………

They discuss viewpoints other than his/her own ………

They encourage independent thought and accept criticism ……..

They speak loudly ……..

They use wit and humor effectively ……..

They have an aura of self-confidence ………

They tell a lot of jokes ……..

They demonstrate a caring attitude ………

They give a lot of praise ………

They grade students well ………

They return students' work quickly ………

They use a variety of media in their lessons ………

They challenge their students ………

They are a good public speaker ……….