How to Be A Good Teacher

As most believe, a teacher inflences on a child’s development as much as parents, sometimes even more. So a teacher is always expected to behave as a model in every aspect. For instance, a qualified teacher should be a person with physical and psychological well-being, healthy outlook on life, optimistic personality, plentiful knowledge, professonal skills on a specific field, and most importantly, responsibility. At the same time, a good teacher can spread his own good personality and knowledge to the students and also can direct the students into being valuable people. So many people will ask what on earth are most contributive to being a good teacher. From my perspective, the qualifications of a good teacher are as follows.

First, a good teacher must have a strong sense of responsibility, not only for the study of students but also for their healthy growth. Only with responsibility, a teacher can have the motivation to make the lessons interesting and attractive so that the students can achieve much during the learning and find it easier to understand difficult knowlege. Besides, a responsible teacher will take all the students into consideration and never give up any one. Because a good teacher knows study doesn’t mean everything to modern students; their moral education is more important. Thus, a teacher with responsibility would like to spare time and make efforts to help students with all-round development. Second, a good teacher should regard teaching as more career than a job. As we know, interest is the best teacher. This proverb is also the same with teachers. Only when a teacher enjoys his work can he love the studens and find himself more motivated, creative and devoted. Last but not least, a good teacher should be encouraging. Actually, every student has his or her own potential. If a teacher only focus on the students’ high marks and good performence in study, it is very possible to have a negative impact on their development and maybe kill a genius.

There is an old saying, “give me a fish and I eat for a day; teach me to fish and I eat for a life time.” This philosophy worth every teacher’s thought. I believe I can become a good teach as long as I strive for this ideal.