Benefits Of A Good Teacher Essay

What makes a good teacher? A good teacher is someone who can adapt their teaching style to every type of learner and make learning a fun and engaging experience. To do this, a desire to teach is necessary as it provides the motivation necessary to put effort into what you do. I do not know if I will be a good teacher someday. As of now I have very little teaching experience and much to learn. I do find the teaching profession to be enjoyable and I have the desire to be a great teacher. My hope is that this motivation will lead me down the correct path into becoming a great teacher someday. "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." (William Ward) Strengths and Weaknesses: The first experience I had with teaching was a nervous one. Although I only had three students, it seemed as if I was standing in front of a group of eighty about to present a...show more content...

Some might think of that as something bad, but in fact, it has worked to my favor. Due to this, I believe the students find it easier to relate and in doing so, maybe even respect me more. Student hear the same thing time and time again about why it is important to learn English. More money, better jobs and travel are all valid reasons for learning English. Saying these things again as an attempt to motivate them is probably not the best route when trying to motivate and promote good classroom control. I believe that creating an interesting atmosphere and delivering the subject matter in an entertaining fashion trumps bland attempts at motivating. Every student has their reason for learning English, but it is the teacher's responsibility to make the material easier for the students to learn. This quote says it all: Having classroom presence is "partly innate" suggests Jo Palmer–Tweed, "one of the things we're looking for is for people to have a natural presence".

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My Most Memorable Teachers For some reason or another certain students are drawn to particular teachers while other students are more fond of others. In my life I have studied under three memorable teachers. Teachers with which I was able to connect, to laugh, to share my misgivings. While I may have been close with each of these teachers, it is very clear, in retrospect, that each was very unique, and represented an entirely different class of teacher.

The teacher that stands out most in my head is my eleventh grade English teacher. She had a liberal arts background, and enjoyed the classic American writers; Hemingway, Steinbeck, what have you. She was in the class of teachers who was more impressed by actions and honesty...show more content... Her class of teachers take their jobs very seriously, and do not tolerate students who skip or disrupt their classes. These teachers are fun, because once you get them off on some irrelevant tangent, they will keep themselves going on it for entire class segments, trying to get out years of thought and consideration in just a short period of time. This is how I got to know my psychology teacher, because I was the one who kept her talking, so that the class could avoid taking the quiz that none of us had studied for. Teachers like her have the innate gift to educate and entertain, with their comprehensive lessons and subtle quirks.

Finally, I come to my high school horticulture teacher, whom I studied under for so many years that by the time I was a senior, we talked to each other on a first name basis. He belonged to a small class of teachers who are personally important to every young adult. This class of teacher is the buddy, the friend. The teacher with whom you can talk about anything, be it the trouble you have been having with your girlfriend, the high–potency marijuana that you smoked over the weekend, or just the dirty jokes you heard the day before. These are the teachers with whom you simply share interests, and thus, get along really well. Having a teacher like this is almost like having a counselor, someone older and wiser than yourself

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Who is a teacher and what makes a good teacher? By definition, a teacher is a person who teaches, especially in school, but can anyone be a teacher? That is a matter of the possession of qualification and the overall talent utilized whilst on the workforce. Having such qualification simply doesn't create a good teacher, though. Becoming a good teacher requires work, effort and time that one must be willing to sacrifice from their daily lives. A good teacher must be able to teach the students clearly. He/she must be well prepared, whether it is regarding the lesson of the day or any sudden questions the pupil may ask. A good teacher should have confidence with themselves and be organized at all times. A good teacher respects his/her job and tries to be as effective as possible.

But from being a good teacher, there is one higher form of teachers' ranking and that is being a great and effective teacher. Being a good teacher is easy, but being a great teacher requires more effort than what is usually expected and required. With being a great teacher, teaching is not a job, but a...show more content...

With that knowledge only can a person be creative about it. A certain degree of knowledge is essential for one person to be able to adapt it to any situation or use it as an output in the education industry whilst teaching. But can intelligent people be creative? Few studies have claimed that not all intelligent people can be creative, but other researches have shown this to be fabricated. Creativity is claimed to be the highest form of intelligence. So, should creativity be looked upon as if opposed to intelligence? Creativity is one of the qualities of intelligence; same way as analytical intelligence and practical intelligence. Although analytical and practical intelligence plays an important role, without creativity, the task loses the touch of the creator, thus making it the same as everyone

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For other uses, see Experience (disambiguation). Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event.[1] The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment. The concept of experience generally refers to know–how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on–the–job training rather than book–learning. Philosophers dub knowledge based on experience "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge". The interrogation of experience has a long tradition in continental philosophy. Experience plays an important role in the philosophy of SГёren Kierkegaard. The German term...show more content...

Another way to induce spiritual experience through an altered state of consciousness involves psychoacoustics, binaural beats, or light–and–sound stimulation. [edit] Social experience Main article: Socialization Growing up and living within a society can foster the development and observation of social experience.[9] Social experience provides individuals with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own societies, as a society itself is formed[citation needed] through a plurality of shared experiences forming norms, customs, values, traditions, social roles, symbols and languages. [edit] Virtual experience and simulation gaming Main articles: Virtual Reality and Simulation Game Using computer simulations can enable a person or groups of persons to have virtual experiences in virtual reality.[10] Role–playing games treat "experience" (and its acquisition) as an important, measurable, and valuable commodity. Many role–playing video games, for instance, feature units of measurement used to quantify or assist a player–character's progression through the game – called experience points. [edit] Immediacy of experience Someone able to recount an event they witnessed or took part in has "first hand experience".

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