Good teacher

A good teacher:

keeps in contact with the parents of his or her pupilsandlets them participate in the life of the school (in a primary or secondary school);

is able to maintain discipline and order;

lets the students share his or her own life with all its ups and downs;

works hard to remain up-to-date in his or her subject;

openly admits when he or she has made a mistake or does not know something;

is interested in his or her students,asks them about their homes and tries to help where possible;

makes the students work hard and sets high standards;

is friendly and helpful to his or her colleagues;

uses a lot of different materials, equipment and teaching methods and attempts to make his or her lessons interesting;

helps the students become independent and organize their own learning.

Assignments:

1. Look through the questionnaire and arrange the listed teachers qualities in the order you think most proper. Try to explain why you have done so. Agree or disagree with your groupmates.

2. Read the following quotations and comment on them.

1) Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are out of line, no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

2) Any man can be a good teacher.

3) Every teacher continues to be a student.

4) The teacher is a model and example to his students.

5) Good teachers are born, not made.

6) Teaching machines and computers can be substitutes for any teacher.

7) Teaching is a two-way traffic.

8) Experience is the best teacher.