Qualities of an Ideal Teacher
A good teacher is he who teaches the students
how to lead their lives controlled and cleanly to achieve knowledge and skills.
A good teacher is vitally significant for effective teaching to the students in
systematic manner. He should know the precise way of teaching where the
students are stimulated to learn and devote themselves to study. A good teacher
is an architect for edifice a good native in the country.
Key words: doppelgänger, knowledge, visual, basic, precise, architect,
native
“Learners love
me, I love my lovers,
Searchers look
me in unseen sheet of papers,
I am
knowledge. "
There is no denying the fact that Teaching is
the effective transfer of appropriate behaviours between the teachers and the
students which lead to the achievement of predetermined and specified results'.
Hence in order to demonstrate the purpose of teaching that is the transfer of
knowledge to the students accurately so that after receiving teachings they can
acquire projected knowledge and predetermined fallouts. Hence a good teacher
is he who teaches the students how to lead their lives controlled and cleanly
to achieve knowledge. A good teacher is vitally significant for epitome
teachings to the students as a tentative flow. He should know the precise way
of teaching where the students are stimulated to learn and devote themselves to
study. A good teacher is an architect for edifice a good citizen in the
country.
Suffice it to say that in order to
make teaching effective, the three things are crucially imperative. These are
Good teacher, Good method and Good books. Undeniably, a good teacher plays a vigorous
role in making teachings to the students efficacious. Being a teacher, he
should perform in such a way by virtue of his own doppelgänger, voice and body
use so that interface and transferral of behaviour between the teacher and the
student are accelerated in a systematic manner.
About the doppelgänger, he needs to act like
the following:
& Well-dressed
& Well rested
& He has to arrive before the
students
& He has to greet the students as
they arrive
& He needs to be enthusiastic about teaching in relevant field
& He has to identify and help the less able students
& He should remain alert and
concentrate on how his students are behaving
& He should be an attentive listener
& He should think before he speaks
& He should not be restless
& He should have meaningful learning
experience.
Assuming in a teaching classroom,
computer class on Oracle Programming class is going on. The students are feeling tedious
because the teacher was not well dressed and well rested. Rather he has attained
late and he has not welcomed them. Some students do not comprehend his lecture.
He is running fast. He is not identifying and helping the less able students.
In this case, in spite of his sound knowledge in the relevant field, he may not
be treated as a good teacher. Besides this, in order to make our teachings impressive
by good grounding, we need to follow as appended below as regards the use of Voice:
& A teacher must start with Bang and
end with Bang. Here Bang refers to a good beginning and an impressive
finishing.
& In between check and interaction,
a teacher should understand one thing that the students are learning.
& To plan for accurate timing
& 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.
& Control: To draw up and issue
instruction, and stay with the students, closely supervising its action.
& Guide to clarify what is required,
hand over ownership to students and offer to give advice when they call you.
& Consult: To give a broad outline,
ask students to discuss ideas and agree actions, using us as a separate expert
reference point.
& 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 enthusiastic 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 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 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
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 interference to learning on the part of the
students. Sometimes the lecture may be droning due to constant saying. If there
exists waterlessness 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
tranquility 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."
