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Faculties and Departments => Faculty Sections => Faculty Forum => Topic started by: farzanamili on December 22, 2010, 11:00:25 AM
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What We Can Learn From Successful Teachers:
The successful teachers remain intellectually curious and professionally vital both inside and outside the classroom for decades. They avoid stagnation at all costs and maintain an enviable passion for children and the learning process. They remain vivid in the students' memories forever because of their creativity, sense of fun, and compassion.
Here are the qualities the successful teachers contribute most to a successful, durable, and happy teaching career:
1. Successful teachers hold high expectations:
The most effective teachers expect great accomplishments from their students, and they don't accept anything less. In education, expectations form a self-fulfilling prophecy. When teachers believe each and every student can soar beyond any imagined limits, the children will sense that confidence and work with the teacher to make it happen.
2. They think creatively:
The best teachers think outside the box, outside the classroom, and outside the norm. They leap outside of the classroom walls and take their students with them! As much as possible, top teachers try to make classroom experiences exciting and memorable for the students. They seek ways to give their students a real world application for knowledge, taking learning to the next action-packed level. Think tactile, unexpected, movement-oriented, and a little bit crazy... then you'll be on the right track.
3. Top teachers are versatile and sensitive:
The best teachers live outside of their own needs and remain sensitive to the needs of others, including students, parents, colleagues, and the community. It's challenging because each individual needs something different, but the most successful teachers are a special breed who play a multitude of different roles in a given day with fluidity and grace, while remaining true to themselves.
4. They are curious, confident, and evolving:
We're all familiar with the stagnant, cynical, low-energy teachers who seem to be biding their time until retirement and watching the clock even more intently than their students. That's what NOT to do.
In contrast, the successful teachers renew their energy by learning new ideas from younger teachers, and they aren't threatened by new ways of doing things on campus. They have strong core principles, but somehow still evolve with changing times. They embrace new technologies and confidently move forward into the future.
5. They are imperfectly human:
The most effective educators bring their entire selves to the job. They celebrate student successes, show compassion for struggling parents, tell stories from their own lives, laugh at their mistakes, share their unique quirks, and aren't afraid to be imperfectly human in front of their students.
They understand that teachers don't just deliver curriculum, but rather the best teachers are inspiring leaders that show students how should behave in all areas of life and in all types of situations. Top teachers admit it when they don't know the answer. They apologize when necessary and treat students with respect.
6. Successful teachers emphasize the fun in learning and in life:
The successful teachers create lighthearted fun out of serious learning. They aren't afraid to be silly because they can snap the students back into attention at will - with just a stern look or a change in tone of voice.
Next Steps:
For those of us aiming to increase these qualities in our professional lives, it can be intimidating to think that we have to do everything all at once. Instead, it is recommended for choosing one of these qualities to focus on each school year and expand one’s repertoire slowly but surely. Even the most successful teachers have to start somewhere!
Source:http://k6educators.about.com/od/professionaldevelopment/p/successteach.htm
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Teachers should always consider themselves a better students than a regular students. With this view teachers can always excel their performance and put themselves ahead of others.
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I think, from a successful teacher we can learn how to build a good nation for a developed country.
Bimal Das
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I believe,successful teachers are those who can hold students & make them to be studious,as students alltime try to hold teacher & to be shirker in study by giving excuses.
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Venturing this forum,I came across numerous qualities that a teacher should have.But this post on '6 Traits of Successful Teachers!' has convinced me to say that,these traits are easy to acquire if someone is dedicated and definitely good enough to bring success.
Thanks Farzana madam for sharing the link with us.
Regards
Shamsi
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
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'TEACHERS need good financial motivation and recognition that drive them to accomplish the best in order to be succesful......'
I am agreed with Shibli Sir.
Ms. Faizun Nesa
Lecturer of CSE
FSIT
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My special thanks to Ms Farzana and then Ms Shamsi madam to show the right track and strong feelings of behalf of teachers community.
At the same time I am not agreed with Shibli Bhai and Ms. Faizun Nesa to set financial matters as the key motivational factor in this regard.
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would you please buy the monograph and go through it?
A Research Monograph: Job Satisfaction of Teachers in Bangladesh: A Study at the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Levels.
http://www.bod.com/index.php?id=3435&objk_id=503030
http://www.amazon.com/Satisfaction-Teachers-Bangladesh-Masud-Rahman/dp/3639335686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303740380&sr=1-1
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Dear all
TEACHERS need good financial motivation and recognition that drive them to accomplish the best in order to be successful......' I didn't mean that these factors are the key factors among many others. Our research says working environment is one of the key factors. As far as DIU is concerned, Our salary structure has been revised and very good, and our working environment is the best as far as i know. About recognition, one of our colleagues got promoted to Assistant Professor as soon as he did ICMA. So, good teachers are getting recognized here at DIU.
We did a research at Primary, Secondary and Tertiary level where sample size was more than 350. That was the findings that teachers in Bangladesh at primary level get only 3000 taka to 6000 taka and they have no designation other than three: Junior Teacher, Assistant Teacher and Senior Teacher
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Its true that the working environment at DIU is the best as far as I know.I really feel like having my own family here that can never be measured by money.And definitely it is one of the most important factors in Teachers' Motivation.
Regards
Shamsi
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I also believe that DIU is much better than many Universities in giving facilities to it's employees. I think,financial matter is important for our livelihood,but that should not be a factor to increase our teaching quality. This profession is noble in nature. I love to communicate with my students because of my feelings towards them,not for being salaried by authority. Respecting all other's views, this is just my personal belief that finance should not be over-emphasised in our thoughts. Thanks to all.