My idea of a Good Teacher

My idea of a Good Teacher

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, to substantiate the purpose of teaching, which is the transfer of knowledge to the students properly, so that after receiving teachings, they can acquire the expected knowledge and pre-determined results. Hence, a good teacher teaches the students how to lead their lives cleanly and controlled towards acquiring knowledge. A good teacher is vitally important for the ideal teaching of 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 Comninus, a famous educationist, in order to make teaching successful, the three things are vitally important. These are Good teachers, Good methods and Good books. 

Indeed, a good teacher plays a vital role in making teaching 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 systematically. Assuming in a teaching classroom, a computer class on Visual Basic is going on. The students are feeling bored 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 a very attractive and fascinating role in the overall performance of the class. Besides this, to make our teachings memorable through good preparation, we need to follow the guidelines appended below regarding the use of voice. As a teacher, we must be very careful in using our voice to ensure an effective teaching class. A good teacher need not be excited and agitated towards the students. We should allow students to ask questions so that the 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 in the concept of learning. According to Franchise Bacon, there are two types of learning: One is Pedagogy- children's learning, and the other is Andragogy- Adult learning. In the 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 Maugham says, “It is difficult to pass over the razor's edge, but the wise say the path to salvation is hard “. 

An ideal teacher needs to be well conversant about using the language. It is indispensable to create awareness and a congenial atmosphere on the part of a teacher. In order to develop a lecture, group discussion is a vital part. As a teacher, we have to ensure that group performance is effective. 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 a question on the progress, it will be interacted and if you further emphasise 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 memorised, but if it is stated 6 times, then 90% will be memorised after one year. So, reiteration/repetition is the most important tool for the teacher to make the topics memorable. If the message is not remembered and understandable, then the whole thing will be treated as useless. It is generally meant by recap to go over again the vital point of the relevant contents. Using FULLE-R and VHF for better memorisation can do the recap. As the first events are best memorised, so too start with a big message. Thereafter, unusual events like cartoons, exercises, 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 at 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 effective teaching, 'only lecture is immaterial but to ornament it for better memorisation, ideal approach, demonstration, visual display and a variety of attractions of the students are needed'. A proverb always goes like ' To err is human'. It is human nature to forget the things/messages which is not reviewed, as we are losing what we don't review. To review, we are to regularly sum up where we have reached and invite questions. At the end of every topic, if the teacher repeats, recap and review, asks questions and helps 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 such, it must attract the students for effective and efficient teaching. In delivering a lecture, there are limitations which may create a 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 questions help get students involved. Assuming to know a particular thing, one may get interested if he is intend to know those particular items. An ideal teacher needs to be well conversant about using the language. It is indispensable to create awareness and a congenial atmosphere on the part of a teacher.