Teaching requires certain personal qualities and skills to be effective. The document outlines 19 important qualities of an ideal teacher including empathy, creativity, communication skills, interpersonal skills, positivity, fairness, humor, consistency, rewarding students, reliability, passion, motivation, active listening, nurturing students, honesty, punctuality, willingness to learn, organization, strong ethics, and treating all students with dignity. These qualities help teachers support students, encourage learning, and create a safe environment for students to thrive.
2. Teaching is a carrier that provides challenges, excitement, personal
reward and a chance to encourage and support others to achieve their
goals. There are many personal qualities and skills that make someone a
good teacher.
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3. 1.Empathy
one of the most important good qualities of a teacher is empathy.
2.Creativity
As a teacher, you have to ensure that your students don’t get bored. It’s common for
students to lose interest and attention, so simply teacher must be creative. One of the
important qualities of an ideal teacher is creativity. By being creative, you can make
your classes interesting.
4. 3.Communication
While talking about the good qualities of a teacher, communication skills cannot be missed
Always invite feedback, ask your students if they have understood
Create a platform for open communication
4.Interpersonal skills
• Interpersonal skills and communication skills are closely related to each other.
• How well you communicate with your students and their parents will determine the nature of your
connection with them.
• So that they can connect with their students and solve their problems if any.
5. 5. positivism
• If a teacher has the quality of always being positive, it can help the students in a lot of
ways.
• A positive attitude and a positive relationship between students and teachers are the most
important thing needed to ensure effective learning.
6.Fair Minded
• Fairness is one of the most important qualities of effective teachers.
• When a teacher is fair-minded, it earns them respect and students feel safe and valued in the
classroom.
6. 7.Humorous
• Though most people don’t think of humour as a quality, it is one of the most
significant qualities of an ideal teacher.
• Teachers who are humorous and funny have the ability to connect with students easily and
can create a joyful environment.
8.Consistent
• Consistency helps teachers and students alike.
• By consistency, we mean having a routine and system in place.
• When there’s a proper routine, the respect from the students’ and parents’ side increases.
7. 9.Rewarding
• Teachers need to be rewarding and have to acknowledge the efforts of their students.
• When teachers say “well done”, “good job” etc and reward students with a good word of
encouragement, it motivates them to do better and makes you a better teacher.
• 10.Reliable
• A reliable teacher is someone who is dedicated to their job and is trustworthy.
• Reliable teachers know how to make proper decisions and assessments, it help to cultivate the
quality of reliability in their students.
8. 11.Passionate
• From low engagement of students to less interactivity, there are a lot of issues.
• Now, with online teaching and live classes, teachers face even bigger problems.
• Passion is the core essential quality that helps teachers to overcome any problem that they face.
12.Motivating
• Teachers can play a huge role in motivating their students.
• Prompt feed, critical appreciation, group works, etc are some of the methods that teachers can apply
to motivate their students.
9. 13.Active listening
• You can be a great teacher only when you understand what your students need and what they want,
you have to listen.
• Active listening is one of the most important qualities of an ideal teacher.
14.Nurturing
• When teachers get harsh on them, there are chances of students acting out.
• Whereas when a teacher is nurturing, the students feel safe, it increases respect between students and
towards the teacher.
• If students have behavioural or social disabilities, a nurturing teacher can help them a lot.
10. 15.Honesty
• Students look up to their teachers and honesty is one of the important qualities that students need.
• Honesty towards the work that you do, towards your students and colleagues is extremely important.
16.Punctuality
• Being on time and sticking to schedules and timetables is among the most needed qualities of an
ideal teacher.
• Students learn from you and in order to instil a sense of punctuality in them, you have to live by it.
• This quality reflects your responsibility and commitment to your profession.
11. 17.Willingness to learn
• Teaching and learning go hand in hand.
• A good teacher never stops learning.
• With the education sector changing every day, teachers need to learn and upskill themselves. For
example, with classes going online, teachers have to learn about live classes and online teaching.
18.Organization skills
• This quality helps teachers to stay punctual and disciplined.
• If you are organized and planned, it helps you be on time and finish your lessons.
• This is an unavoidable characteristic of teaching.
12. 19.Ethics
• Ethics is a standard set of values and beliefs that teachers should follow.
• Ethics is what tells us what is right and wrong and keeps us from doing things that are wrong.
• It is against a teacher’s ethics to be unfair to students and to show partiality to students.
20.Dignity
• Since learning starts with teachers, it is very important for teachers to respect everyone regardless of
their gender, status, caste, and creed.
• This is one of the characteristics of teaching that sets teachers apart.
