by Khair Bakhsh

Created on: March 15, 2008   Last Updated: January 03, 2009

Teaching is an ancient but the most respectful, noble and prophetic profession in the world. Teaching demands a lot of qualities from a teacher and these qualities can be achieved and acquired by a constant progress in this field.

Successful teaching is not just a question of knowing methodology. A teacher may have some super techniques but still fails because his attitude toward the students is not desirable. Thus the golden techniques of teaching fail when the teacher uses authoritative tone for the innocent learners.

Weak students are usually afraid of their teachers, so a teacher should not be a demon for them. First of all he must remove their fears. When they feel a bit free with him then they will learn more. Encouragement from their teacher will make them cross many thresholds.

Teacher must make his teaching interesting. It is possible only when he prepares his lesson well and he is genuinely interested in his teaching work and derives pleasure from it.

Teacher must try to motivate his students, because motivation is driving force that makes the students work hard. Encouragement and sense of progress are motivating forces. Encouragement and confidence paves the way for learning process, so a teacher arouses confidence in his students.

Teacher use as many different activities as possible in the class. Remember that monotony produces drowsiness. Frequent change of activity will lead to greater interest; leave the teacher with fewer discipline problems.

Teacher does not forget the principles that listening provides material particularly for speaking; speaking provides material for reading; reading provide material for writing, so all these four activities supplement each other.

Teacher use audio-visual aids to make the lesson concrete but these should be used as a means to an end, and not an end in themselves.

When teacher is standing in the class-room before the students, he should not focus his attention on a particular area of the class or on some students. During his teaching, he must switch his gaze evenly from one side to another. In fact, he should be like a well-regulated light house.

Asking question in the class is way of compelling the attention of the students. It is an art which is learnt after careful preparations and by constant practice. It is a technique which one masters after working with it conscientiously and regularly in different class-room situations. If a back-bencher is yawning, then teacher ask him a question. It would be not desirable

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