A teacher’s job is more than just being a knowledge imparter or skills improver. A teacher is an educator who equips students with capabilities. There are two senses in students’ abilities. One is academic; the other is social. Academic abilities mean students having the ability to learn autonomously. Giving knowledge to students does not produce ability. Knowledge is a handful of information. No mater how much a teacher tries to give, it is but a handful, and this handful information is in the process of being out of date. Also, only giving students knowledge puts them in so passive a position that students cannot learn efficiently. Knowledge can be taken in throughout active thinking and trying. Therefore, a good teacher tries to enable students to do their self-discovery and self-exploration. To enable students also refers to facilitate students’ personality development and social abilities. A teacher’s work involves students who are the future of the society. As a teacher, he/she is responsible to educate and develop each individual learner as a whole person in equipping them with qualities of cooperation, justice, responsibility and discipline, and with abilities of being critical and judgmental in dealing with their complex life.
Other aspects of qualities
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