1.passionate:
Passion stimulates the teacher to always explore new ways in teaching and makes the teacher appear fresh, energetic and in high spirit, which in turn infects students to be interested and motivated. It is easy to be passionate for a term or a year, but teaching for many years can dull a person. So as a teacher we need to maintain and refresh our passion.
2.committed:
A good teacher is willing to work hard at his/her teaching. Teaching well involves time and effort to think about teaching, design teaching tasks and search for suitable materials. Teaching well also involves time and effort to make him/her available for their students to help them both academically and socially.
3.dynamic:
A dynamic teacher is full of energy and has new ideas. He/she makes his/her class interesting, active and harmonious. Teaching involves three aspects: the teacher, the students and activities. The three need to be enveloped as a coherent whole. The envelope is the classroom atmosphere. A dynamic teacher creates an active, secure and harmonious atmosphere in which students feel interested, energetic and eager to do activities and tasks.
4.creative:
Being creative is essential for a teacher to do successful teaching. In teaching, the teacher needs to produce new ideas. Being creative can avoid mechanical and monotonous teaching. Creativity brings about unexpected but motivating episodes in class and makes each class different or unique so as to arouse and sustain students’ interest and concentration.
5.patient:
Learning takes time and process. No learning achievement can be done in a day. Impatience is upsetting, de-concentrating and it kills confidence. Also, each individual student is different in processing the language. Patience allows students to take in the language in a secure, relaxing and optimistic atmosphere. Patience is valuable for both the teacher and students to try and never give up. Impatience often results in no trying or no learning when he/she gives up in order not to feel upset
empathetic:
The ability to understand students’ feelings and problems can decide the teacher’s attitudes toward students and build up rapport亲密 with his/her students. Considering students’ feelings by putting him/herself in students’ place helps understand and appreciate students’ difficulties and feelings. With this, the teacher can deal with teaching and students more sensibly and compassionately. In return, students will appreciate and understand the teacher too.
conclusion
There is a lot to say about the qualities of a good language teacher. This unit cannot and does not intend to contain all. Also, it is not easy to possess all the qualities mentioned in this unit, but we can try. As we are trying, we will enjoy students’ appreciation and recognition, which is the happiest reward for a teacher.
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