It is easy to have dreams and aspirations, but where the problem lies is in living them to reality when they actually manifest. Teaching is what every human wants to do. In the sense that most people feel they know more and always want to teach others to do things their preferred way. In as much as we all teach in our day-to-day life, we need to understand how to become a better teacher.

When it comes to real academic teaching, it’s way more than just teaching people how to do things your way. Here you have to handle a lot of people at the same time, ensuring they all understand before progressing to the next. You have to work with curriculum, adhere to a lot of rules, endure a lot, and…..it can be so overwhelming.

When you find yourself in a situation like this, not knowing how to start being a good teacher talk more of a better teacher. Confused about how to get these little ones to understand all that you have been given in this curriculum. Relax! You are not alone. I have simplified the solution to cope with these challenges for you in this article. Reading on, you would understand what is expected of a person to be classified as a good teacher. And the qualities you require to imbibe to become better at teaching.

Who is a Good Teacher?

A good teacher is one who has the interest of her students at heart, cares for them, and patiently educates them in a way each understands. He or she ensures that everyone is carried along by putting effective teaching into practice.

What is effective Teaching?

Effective teaching has to do with communicating right in all aspects to your students. That is teaching, and the person being taught actually understands what was taught. This encompasses the methods or strategies implored to conduct the students to learn. The way you coordinate your class, lessons, assessments, and even your rapport with your students. “Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.” – William Glasser

Whether you are a classroom teacher, a private home tutor, or you are not within the academic sector, these laid-down tips would help you strategically be at the top of your teaching game.

Qualities You Need To Become A Better Teacher

There are several qualities required for a person to be classified fit as a good teacher. The terms good teacher, effective teacher, a better teacher, and the great teacher are actually used intermittently to mean the same thing.

Here are some of the key qualities you require to become a better teacher;

Patience:

As a teacher, you need to be a very patient person to accommodate the different personalities you would encounter in your community of students. Your patience helps the kids or people you teach feel less pressured and thus their cognitive senses awaken to the best state to assimilate what they are taught.

Understanding & Compassionate:

A good teacher tries to understand the pupil or students in her care. Every human cherishes the act of being understood. You need to learn to show empathy to to your students. Try to walk in their shoes to enable you to feel what they could be undergoing and show some concern and compassion. Don’t ever disregard the mood of your students and assume they would eventually be fine. Speak with that moody child and confirm what put him in the mood. That child that seems to get almost all the answers wrong could need just a little chit-chat with you. Your show of empathy and concern might not erase the reality but can go a long way to help these children get better.

Love:

Love solves all problems. A good teacher should show love to all the students equally without showing preferences. Give every child a sense of belonging. Loving a particular kid more than the rest breeds some discriminatory atmosphere, that you surely do not want to manifest in your classroom. Children find it easier to learn from someone they love than from someone they dislike.

Time Management Skills:

A good teacher needs to up his time management skill. Being time conscious is a required skill in your daily routine to be able to meet all the demands of the role; preparing and delivering your lessons, attending to your student’s personal needs, and also taking care of your personal life. A good teacher has to be coordinated and organized. Ensure to have your lessons and assessments well planned out before your class.

Friendly & Approachable:

A good teacher should be friendly and make herself approachable. If the people you are in charge of cannot feel free and comfortable around you, then you won’t be able to really impact them.

Committed To The Success Of The Students:

We encounter some people who like to hoard knowledge. This is not the case for a good teacher. As a teacher, your aim should be to impart the knowledge and information you have to your students without withholding back some key things. You should target for your students to learn and know more than yourself.

Tolerance:

As a teacher, you will encounter a lot of misconduct from your students. Be prepared to face lots of mischieve from students. Your ability to compose yourself well to handle these kids well is very important.

Good Communication Skills:

A good teacher should be good at communication. Recall that good communication has to do with a sender passing on information and a recipient being able to successfully receive and comprehend the information passed. A good teacher has to be a good communicator in other to teach effectively.

Versatility:

To be good at teaching, you need to exhibit versatility. Being well schooled, and traveling exposes you to more knowledge both experiential and academic, thus would help you to have more to back up your teachings in a way that your students would easily understand.

Attentive:

To be a good teacher you need to give a listening ear to your students. Don’t just rattle and go. Give time to hear feedback, questions, contributions, and all. And when they come to you for advice, hear them out and help them solve their problems. Always pay attention to them to know when they require assistance without waiting till they approach you.

Good Judge Of Character:

To become a good teacher, you really need some lessons in human psychology. You need to be good at reading people and judging characters. This will help you know and understand your students, and how best to handle each one of them.

Smartness & Intelligence:

To cope in a teaching role, you need to be very smart. Bear in mind that children can be smart and trickish sometimes. If you are not able to outsmart them, you would surely have a handful.

Kindness:

Kindness cannot be overlooked. Your ability to exhibit kindness to your students would greatly affect how much they feel comfortable around you. Which will in turn manifest in how receptive they will be to your lessons.

Enthusiastic:

To become a good teacher, you need to actually love the art of teaching. You need to be enthusiastic to be able to build yourself well and position yourself as required to execute your day-to-day activities in the classroom in a way that would encourage your students to love learning.

Creative:

Creativity is one of the major skills you need to build in becoming a good teacher. This will help you regularly come up with new and unique teaching methods, thereby making your lesson less boring. These tips on How To Stay Amazingly Creative can aid your journey.

Hardworking:

Teaching is a very challenging role not meant for the lazy. To become a good teacher you need to be hardworking to promptly attend to your daily to-do list.

Flexibility:

A good teacher needs to be flexible and ever-ready to adapt to the ever-changing work environment. You will meet different new kids each session or each year with different characters, curriculums can change, and you would need to be able to easily adapt to changes to ensure your students get the best of you.

Work-Life Balance:

In all you do, never underestimate the impact of your selfcare. Take time off to care for yourself. Get good sleep, feed well, go on vacations…find some fun. Your students need you to be healthy and happy in order to attend to them better.

Conclusion

Teaching is one of those careers that you get better at with time. Experience and time will help you improve. Don’t be too hard on yourself, you are doing great. Just keep learning and improving. And never forget that Rome was not built in a day. Let me know if in the comment section if you got value.