What makes a good teacher?

A good teacher should try and draw out the quiet ones and control the more talkative ones.

Experienced teachers can tell you of classes which are dominated by bright, witty, loud, extrovert students. It's easy to be captivated by such students. It takes more effort to ensure that the quiet, shyer students also get a chance. A good teacher is someone who asks the people who don't always put their hands up.

The teacher should be able to correct people without offending them.

Explaining to students that they have made a mistake is one of the most perilous encounters in the classroom. It has to be done with tact. The teacher has to measure what is appropriate for a particular student in a particular situation.

A good teacher is an entertainer and in a positive sense, not a negative sense.

Students enjoy being entertained and amused. However, a balance has to be struck between entertainment and teaching/learning. Sometimes, the former can overwhelm the latter.

Most students like the teacher who has his own personality and doesn't hide it from the students so that he's not only a teacher but a person as well.. and it comes through the lessons

Students tend to be interested in their teacher , at least at first. The ones who share their personality with their classes often have better results than those who don't.

A good teacher is somebody who has an affinity with the students that they're teaching.

Successful teachers are those people who can identify with the hopes, aspirations and difficulties of their students while they are teaching them.

It's important that a student can talk to the teacher when he/she has problems and the the student can't get along with the subject.

Teachers must be approachable.

A teacher must love her job. If she really enjoys her job that'll make the lessons more interesting.

Teachers who look fed up or unhappy with what they are doing tend to have a negative effect on their students. When you observe good teachers you will notice that, even when/if they are feeling terrible (outside the classroom), they put on a good 'teacher's face' when they enter the classroom.

A good teacher is someone who helps rather than shouts.

The people who resent bad behaviour most are not teachers, but other students who feel their time is being wasted. Learning how to manage students and how to control boisterous classes is one of the fundamental skills of teaching.

The teacher needs to have dress sense

and switch it up a little so they won't be predictable or the class would feel bored with their style.

Good teachers care more about their students' learning than they

do about their own teaching.

The teacher should have a lot of knowledge, not only of his subject

teacher should not be afraid to bring their own interests and lives into the classroom.

So class management, the ability to control and inspire a class is one of the most fundamental skills of teaching.

teachers find it much easier if their students believe that they are genuinely interested in them and available for them.

A good teacher is someone who knows

the names of their students.

The teacher should make the lessons interesting so that

the students don't fall asleep in them.