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Faculties and Departments => Faculty Sections => Faculty Forum => Topic started by: shibli on June 16, 2009, 05:39:06 PM
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Teaching is a great art. Not all can become good teachers. A good teacher might be a scholar or a good student but a scholar or a good student might not always be a good teacher. A professor from Cambridge University remarked, "A good teacher should have the following qualities. First, he or she must know the material that he or she is teaching very well. Second, he or she should be able to explain his or her knowledge. Third, he or she must be patient and understanding. Last, he or she must be able to make the subject matter interesting to the students." Dr. Serajul Islam Choudhury, a veteran professor of English from the University of Dhaka said, learning is a life-long process and there is no real ending to it till the last moment. Ideally, teachers should be given pre-entrance as well as in-service training. Also, a teacher need not be bureaucratic; on the contrary he/she should try, if necessary deliberately, to be democratic in attitude as well as in practice. The learner deserves to be treated as a subject rather than an object, and needs encouragement, too. To mark out the errors is not enough, it is even more necessary to appreciate the positive qualities in a student's work.
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That's all Sir???? It is Ok that a teacher should be knowledgeable, should have the skill to deliver the lectures and have the interest to update himself / herself time to time. If one has the above qualities, but does not have ethics and morality, and does not know the code of conduct of any academic institution where he / she is involved, should you consider him / her as a good teacher?
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I agree with Mr. Iftekhar. Those qualities are also needed to be a good teacher. I guess Mr. Shibli has specified the definition along with the silent precondition of those qualities.
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It's a marathon writing. Please don't comment until and unless i finish up.
To be a good teacher you need some of the gifts of the good actors; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience, you must be a clear speaker with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control, and you must be able to act with what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch good teachers, and you will see that they do not sit motionless before their class; they walk about, using their arms, hands and fingers to help them in their explanations, and their face to express their feelings.
The fact that good teachers have some gifts of good actors does not mean that they will indeed be able to act well on the stage. There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which s/he has learnt by heart; s/he has to repeat exactly the same words each time s/he plays a certain part; even his/her movements are usually fixed before.
The good teacher works in quite a different way. His audiences take an active part in his/her play; they ask and answer questions, they obey orders and if they do not understand something, they say so. The teacher, therefore, has to suit his/her act to the needs of his/her audiences, which is his/her class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as s/he goes along.
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good teaching fullfils so many criteria.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires._Ward (2001)
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nice sharing indeed.... :)
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Thanks for your valuable writing...
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If students don’t learn the way teachers teach,
Why teachers do not teach students the way students learn
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Effective sharing
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thanks for sharing............
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exactly..........
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Teaching is not about delivering lectures only. It is about making your students speak. (To be continued)
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Don't give your students fish
Teach them how to fish
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Good teaching is not about talking only, it's more about interacting with your students.
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"Gone are the days when students learned theory without the opportunity to practice and apply the lessons learned. Today, more and more students are attracted to, and inspired by, solving real world problems and learning by inventing and innovating."
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Good teaching is about making students learn with fun. Good teachers practice teaching not for the money only or because they have to, but because they truly enjoy it and because they want to. Good teachers can not imagine doing anything else.
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Good teaching is all about making the lessons clear to the students and taking feedback from them whether they (students) have understood the concepts lucidly or not.
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A good teacher is a philosophical doctor of a student's mind.
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A good teacher is Not a teacher, he or she is a facilitator...
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...teaching is make students believe that they are capable to discuss and share the things they have just learned in the class(from their teacher) :)
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Today's learners learn in diverse ways. A good teacher may try different strategies according to the needs of the learners. A good teacher is a reflective teacher.
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin
Nice sharing and also effective ideas :)
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If you can make your students laugh on your topic, if you can make your lessons interesting to your students, you are a good teacher.
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A good teacher sets the example. Let us remember that we are the teacher. It is important for us to be like a "superhero" figure in their eyes.
Let us remember that our students look up to us and will thus try to mimic our dispositions. If we are rude or inappropriate, they will have an inappropriate model for their behavior. It is vital that students see us as a person with confidence, so that they follow our lead, and feel comfortable trusting us.
Students, of all ages, need someone they can lean on, look up to, and be able to trust.
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Good teaching is all about maintaining a balance in teaching; neither being too rigid nor being too flexible towards students.
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Good teaching is about molding the minds and lives of the students and helping them make their dreams come true.
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Good teachers are prepared and organized. They go to their classrooms being ready to teach. They teach lessons in a clear and structured way.
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Good teachers establish strong relationships with their students and show that they care about them as people. Good teaching is all about being patient with the students and be empathic with them.
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The trouble with education is that it is too often about teaching and not enough about learning. —Peter Evans