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How to be a good teacher

You might have two or three degrees and still have no ability to teach. You could be the most intelligent man or woman alive, but in a classroom full of students, you'd never survive. Good teachers are born that way, and a college degree is simply icing on the cake. The key to being a good teacher will revolve around the teacher's ability to find and maintain the following character traits.

HOW TO BE A GOOD TEACHER:
SIX CHARACTER TRAITS

1. Patience:

Patience is required every day and in every way
within any classroom full of youthful minds who will use their ingenuity to test your patience every day and in many ways. Any teacher who assumes that a room full of children will be eager to sit quietly and listen to the teacher teach, will be surprised by the rude awakening that children don't work that way. Don't go into teaching unless you've been blessed with the ability to patiently keep teaching, even when it appears that no one is listening. You will need to patiently guide the child to where he or she needs to be and find new and improved ways to maintain their attention, not to mention the ability to patiently re-teach.

2. Extra Sensory Perception:

Good teachers have ESP when it comes to children and this gives them the ability to read child like minds. They intuitively know why children do the things they do, and know what to do to help children improve. They see the potential long before it arrives, so they are able to inspire the child to see themselves through their teacher's eyes. A good teacher will use this ESP wisely, by providing the key teaching technique which fits with each child's unique mind and learning style. The teacher will actually see the child's success ahead of time.

3. Intrinsic Motivation:

Good teachers are intrinsically aware that teaching won't bring them abundant living through wealth or esteem, so they go into teaching with the intrinsic ability to work as a team. They understand that teaching will most likely not bring them a raise, much less praise, but they keep teaching due to an innate need to teach. The inspiration which motivates good teaching comes from within anyone born to teach. Even so, this intrinsic motivation will shine for all to see, which is why good teachers are often recognized in our society.

4. An Empathetic Nature:

Along with every good teacher's ESP, the teacher will need to see through an empathetic view. That's what all good teachers do. They see the invisible child who sits idly by


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