By Kh. Atiar
Rahman
Qualities of a Good Teacher
“Learners love me, I love my lovers,
Searchers look me in unseen sheet of papers,
I am knowledge. "
An American
definition of 'Teaching' envisages that ' Teaching is the consistent and
effective transfer of appropriate behaviours which lead to the achievement of
predetermined and specified results'. Hence in order to substantiate the
purpose of teaching that is the transfer of knowledge to the students properly
so that after receiving teachings they can acquire expected knowledge and
pre-determined results. Hence a good teacher is he who teaches the students how
to lead their lives cleanly and controlled towards acquiring knowledge. A good
teacher is vitally important for ideal teachings to the students. He should
know the correct way of teaching where the students are inspired to learn and
devote themselves to study. A good teacher is an architect for building a good
citizen in the country.
According
to Comoneius, a famous educationist, in order to make teaching successful, the
three things are vitally important. These are Good teacher, Good method and
Good books. Indeed, a good teacher plays a vital role in making teachings to
the students successful. Being a teacher, he should behave in such a way by
dint of his own image, voice and body use so that interaction and transfer of
behaviour between the teacher and the student are accelerated in a systematic
manner.
About the image, he needs to
behave like the following:
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Well-dressed
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Well rested
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He has to arrive before the students
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He has to greet the students as they arrive
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He needs to be enthusiastic about teaching in relevant field
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He has to
identify and help the less able students
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He should remain alert and concentrate on
how his students are behaving
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He should be an attentive listener
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He should think before he speaks
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He should remain calm and quiet
Assuming
in a teaching classroom, computer class on Visual Basic is going on. The
students are feeling boring because the teacher was not well dressed and well
rested. Rather he has arrived late and he has not greeted them. Some students
do not understand his lecture. He is running fast. He is not identifying and
helping the less able students. In this case, despite his sound knowledge in
the relevant field, he may not be treated as a good teacher. Henry Fayol
defines a teacher as an active student of the students who can play very much
attractive and fascinate role upon overall performances in the class. Besides
this, in order to make our teachings memorable by good preparation, we need to
follow as appended below apropos to the use of Voice:
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A teacher must start with Bang and end with
Bang.
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In between check and interaction, a teacher
should understand one thing that the students are learning.
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To plan for accurate timing
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To choose a suitable teaching methods in
respect of the students and topics with a great care. And to help the students
learn, especially those who are with problems.
An ideal teacher needs to
play a vital role in active advisor among the students. He needs to be careful
about the criteria on Control, Guide, Consult and Facilitate.
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Control: To draw up and issue instruction,
and stay with the students, closely supervising its action.
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Guide to clarify what is required, hand
over ownership to students and offer to give advice when they call you.
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Consult: To give a broad outline, ask
students to discuss ideas and agree actions, using us as a separate expert
reference point.
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Facilitate to give overall direction,
co-ordinate the group's discussion and expect it to produce a progress report.
Being
a teacher, we need to be very careful in using our voice for effective teaching
class. A good teacher need not be excited and agitated towards the students. We
should give chance to ask question to the students so that transfer of
behaviour is made possible in a significant manner. Sometimes, we forget that
we are a teacher and we have a particular job for the students on the concept
of learning. According to Franchise Bacon, there are two types of learning: One
is Pedagogy- children's learning and the other is Andragoggy- Adult learning.
In case of adult learning, we cannot teach anybody, we only help him or her to
learn. So in the case of using our voice we need to be responsible and tactful.
Hence Somerset
An
ideal teacher needs to be well conversant about using the language. It is
indispensable to create awareness and congenial atmosphere on the part of a
teacher. In order to develop lecture, group discussion is a vital thing. As a
teacher, we have to ensure that group performance is effective.
Apropos to the teaching
method, the following are important to apply in teaching the students
virtually.
1. Telling is not teaching
2. Age is not a bar to learn
3. Meaningful learning experience
4. Voice, image and body use
5. Practically oriented way of teaching
6. Repeat, Recap and Review
In view of the above, a good teacher selects any method to teach the
students but according to Franchise Bacon, most of the good teachers select the
sixth Rule of teaching that is ' Repeat, Recap, Review ' which is the most important
one to make the teaching vitally effective, meaningful, fruitful and up to the
mark
The reasons in support of the argument are
stated as follows.
(a)
Repeat: According to Franchise
Bacon, 'when you tell something in the class to a group of students, it is only
a saying but when you recapitulate it, repeat it and ask the question on the
progress, it will be interacted and if you further emphasize the concept, they
will be conversant with the relevant knowledge'. Indeed, incase of delivering
an important message, if it is stated once-only 10% will be memorized but if it
is stated 6 times then 90% are memorized after one year. So, reiteration/repetition is the most
important tools for the teaching to make the topics rememberable. If the
message is not remembered and understandable then the whole thing will be
treated as useless.
(b) Recap: It is
generally meant by recap to go over again the vital point of the relevant contents. Using FULLE-R and VHF
for better memorization can do the recap. As the first events are best
memorized so to start with big message. Thereafter unusual event like cartoon,
exercise etc. be used. Thirdly, linked event, here mnemonics or analogy can be
used and lastly to end with big messages of fascination towards the topics. In
this context, summing up the ideas to arrive the conclusion that is the gist in
question to be communicated to the students as a good communicator of the
teaching course. We should remember one thing that ' Telling is not teaching;
we need to make teaching active and interesting; get students involved; see it from the student's view; we should use
VHF and FULL-R. According to Comoneus, a famous educationist, for an effective
teaching, 'only lecture is immaterial but in order to ornament it for better
memorization, ideal approach, demonstration, visual display and varieties of
attractions of the students are needed'
(b)
Review: A proverb always goes
like ' To err is human'. It is human nature to forget the things/message, which
is not reviewed that are we losing what we don't review. To review we are to
regularly sum up where we have reached and invited questions. At the end of every topics if the teacher repeats, recap
and review, ask questions and help them to answer properly, the students will
be more motivated and conversant with the subjects and grasp it properly so
that teaching will be effective and fruitful. That
is to say, a teacher's behaviour will be in such, which must attract the
students for effective and efficient teaching.
In
delivering lecture, there are limitations, which may create hindrance to
learning on the part of the students. Sometimes the lecture may be monotonous
and boring due to continuous saying. If there exists dryness amongst the
students, the teacher should change the policy of his lecture. He should ask
open-ended questions. Open ended question help get students involved. Assuming
to know a particular thing, one may get interested if he is intended to know
those particular items. An ideal teacher needs to be well conversant about
using the language. It is indispensable to create awareness and congenial
atmosphere on the part of a teacher.
Otherwise, we have to live in the
midst of frustration and unlawful activities where there will be no light of
education as a symbol of blaze illumination and peace and prosperity of life.
In this context, William Shakespeare says:
"
Out! Out! A brief candle,
A
life's but a walking shadow,
A
poor player!
That
struts and frets his hour
Upon
the stage!
And
then is heard no more,
It
is a tale;
Told
by an idiot,
It
is full of sound and fury;
Signifying
nothing."
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