It about the personality of teachers

1. PERSONALITY CONFIGURATION OF
A TEACHER
Dr. Kamaludheen K.T.

2. QUALITY
EXTRAORDINARINESS
EXPERTISE
PROFESSIONALISM
RESPONSIBILITY
DREAM-SEEDING
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07
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10 – Dimensional Critical Requirements of the Teaching Position
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04
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SALINITY സലൈനിറ്റി
“Nobody is destined to be a teacher, but determined to be a teacher”
Teacher Personality Configurations
TEACHABILITY
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05 TOUCHABILITY
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CHANGE

3. QUALITY
DREAM-SEEDING
10 – Dimensional Critical Requirements of the Teaching Position
SALINITY സലൈനിറ്റി
“Nobody is destined to be a teacher, but determined to be a teacher”
Teacher Personality Configurations
TEACHABILITY
04 TOUCHABILITY
CHANGE
Time-to-time Standards  Benchmarks in Teacher Personality
Compatibility Conflict  Crippled Teachers - ജയിച്ചിട്ടും ത ോറ്റവര്
There is nothing harder than becoming a Teacher
No school will raise above the level of its teachers
Redefine traditional sayings –
1. Teachers are not born – but made
2. No one is destined to be a Teacher – but determined to be a Teacher
Clap…..
10% Content Knowledge 90% Personality

4. Constraints in TTT – Transformative Teacher Training
Philosophical Complaint against US
1. Training – Those who want in great, hate it most
2. Advice – Those who want it most, like it least
3. Those who want it more, use it less
Giant Egos and Elimination
Rich Physical Presence and Mental drop outs
Yes, We are learning together…
Do not confuse what are the determinants of a personality

5. No 1 Quality
Quality Teacher and Qualified Teacher
Quality can be achieved overnight
Quality - “Doing ordinary things with extraordinary perfection”
Teacher Qualities
Quality Philosophy – School Bell – All inclusive philosophy
Quality Belief – Unpredictability – No attention-deficit – Pleasure in the progress of the learner
Quality Collaboration – Enemy of Envy - Make Wonders in the school life of children
Quality Communication – Teacher Speech Code – The most respected is the Child
Do not leave a psychological scar on Children
Beware of Substitution Defence Mechanism
“Leave all your worries here. Do not take them to your classrooms, I promise I don’t give them back to you”

6. No 2 - Extraordinariness
Ordinary Teachers and Extraordinary Teachers
Extra is prefixed with ordinary – That means a teacher has something Extra –
Extra Effort - For every child, there is reason to be different
Extra Time – The greatest present from a teacher
Extra Energy – Flooding Smile and Radiating Energy – Do not sit - last Period and Mruthasanjeevani
Extra Caliber – Multi-talented
Health and Teachers

7. No 3 – Expertise - വൈദഗ്ദദയം
Numerous areas of Teacher Expertise
Methodological Expertise – Every teacher’s methodology in unique
Pedagogical Expertise – Pedagogy, Andragogy, Technopedagogy, Cybergogy
Instructional Expertise - Team teaching, Co-teaching, Station Teaching, One-Teach-One-Assist
Evaluative Expertise – The art of QP Making + Edutainment Activities

8. No 4 – Teachability
“Teachability is the amazing capacity of a teacher to convey the most difficult concepts in the
simplest way to all students irrespective of their ability”
Do not be a Class Clown
The whole responsibility of education is on the back of teachers
Innumerable learning distracters
The art of doing of nothing
The Skill of Classroom Management
Skill of Engaging – Tell me I forget, show me I remember, involve me I understand
The Skill of Greasing - No Jerks, No Sighs
Skill of take off and landing – Motivation and Curiosity

9. No 5 - Touchability
“NO significant LEARNING may happen unless a significant RELATIONSHIP is established with the
student”
“Touchability is the miraculous influence of a teacher that sticks with students until they meet eternity”
A teacher’s role do not pause until the students are rightly placed in their life
Rasool pookkootty - “ശബ്ദതാരാപഥം” – Krishnan Nair Sir
APJ Abdul Kalam “അഗ്നിച്ചിറകുകള്” – Balakrishnan Sir
Bhim Rao changes to Ambedkar
The Paradox - No name-calling every day
Teacher’s transfer of knowledge is a sin
The greatest knowledge that a teacher acquires is the knowledge about the learner –
Student Types
Touchability Techniques – Feeding and Kissing

10. Left Brain Students
• Sharpening
always
• Table clean-Don’t
touch
• Anxious about
everything
• Bus late panic
• Hard revision
Right Brain
Students
• Messy table and
bags
• Torn books &
Blunt Pencils
• Lose things
easily
• Not anxious
about exam
• Dirty come back
• Sleeping &
Searching
Know the BRAIN Types

11. No 6 - Professionalism
“Professionalism means performing the responsibilities in an unsupervised condition”
“Teaching is the noblest of all noble Professions”
“Soldier, Priest, Doctor, Judge, Teacher” –
Life Saving Exercise – Life Couch –
Conscious of their Duties than their Rights
Teaching is a Performing Art – ¼ Preparation and ¾ Theatre
Focus Areas
Teacher performance evaluation is done in every second by students
Appearance – Behaviour – Communication – Dealings

12. No 7 - Responsibility
“Feeling accountability of one’s own action”
Learning is student responsibility, but enable learning is student responsibility
“Once a STUDENT is failed, it is the TEACHER who failed”
Take the blame of student failure
Do not teach in the paramount comfort
Beware of Intellectual Pollution
Responsibility Roles
Researcher - Teacher ‘s Eye
Experimenter – Mandatory extension of teaching profession
Theorist – criteria for validity of her practices
Practitioner – tool to remain always vitalized in the profession

13. No 8 – Dream Seeding
Babies dream before they are born. The fetus of 7 months –
Dream Big – Dreams do happen
APJ Abdul Kalam – Obama – Teachers failed to see them
Teachers have to dream before their children dream
Our eyes sees what our heart sees
Dream incubation techniques - Dream Reinforcement Programs
Dream seeding activities – Dream follow up sessions
Hen and Eagle Theory
Dead and Dumb Island Theory

14. Importance of Instructional Approaches
We learn approximately
1% Through Taste
2% Though Touch
4% Through Smell
10% Through Hearing
83% Through Sight
Kamal's Training Module

15. No 9 Change
Be judicious in timing of Reminders of the past
Learn, Relearn and Unlearn
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ADAPTABILITY
(Capacity to be modified for a new purpose)
ACCEPTABILITY
(The quality of being tolerated or allowed)
ACCESSIBILITY
(The quality of being able to reach)
AVAILABILITY
(The quality of being able to be used)
Traditional Modern

16. No 10 - Salinity
“Teacher is Salt”
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PLEASING
Quality
3. HEALING
Quality
1. PRESERVING
Quality
2. CLEANSING
Quality

17. “Learning to be a TEACHER is a Life-long Process”
Who dares to TEACH must never cease to LEARN!
If YOU are not willing to LEARN, no one can help you!
If YOU are determined to LEARN, no one can stop you!
“Every TEACHER can a make a difference in the Schooling Process”
Be a Teacher Personality and a Teacher Icon in Your School
No blames, no excuses.
Make a choice. Or choice will make you!
Enjoy the responsibilty of teaching…..
conclusion

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