This document provides tips for being a good teacher. Some key aspects include having passion for teaching, strong communication skills, flexibility, compassion for students, establishing clear rules and authority, using humor, teamwork, respect, ethics, planning lessons in advance, giving students responsibilities, patience, making connections to students' experiences, establishing order and cleanliness in the classroom, dealing with disruptions privately, keeping high expectations, consistency in enforcing rules, using proximity to manage behavior, never touching students, and following up with students who are absent or misbehaving. Good teachers also show care for students, set positive relationships, and reflect an image worthy of emulation.

1. HOW TO BE A GOOD TEACHER?
FELJONE G. RAGMA

2.  Passion:You need passion to motivate
children to learn and perform things which
are acceptable, relevant and meaningful.
Communication: In order to understand
students and class, you first need to have
great communication skills.

3.  Flexibility:You should be comfortable in creating a
fine balance between leniency and strictness in
classroom.
 Compassion. Great educators form strong
relationships with their students and show that they
care about them as people. Setting positive
relationships is desired.
 Authority in Setting some ground rules. Setting
ground rules the things that ypu want and students
want so the class will become orderly and
manageable, a class conducive to learning.

4.  Humor: Cracking harmless jokes is required.
 Teamwork: For a good teacher, it is a must to be a good
team player also. He or she should work in collaboration
and coordination with seniors and juniors.
 Respect: If you give respect, you earn it as well.
 Ethics. The teachers should reflect the image of a person
worthy of emulation.
 Planning & Provision: An excellent teacher knows well to
plan his or lessons for next day in advance.

5.  Deligative minds. Give students responsibilities.
Even little ones can give significant growth and a rise
in the self esteem of a student.
 Sharing Attitude. Talking to other teachers helps a
lot
 Patience. Have infinite patience.
 Connections: Link lesson to students’ experiences.

6.  Plan well. Plan ahead of time. You have the power to
foresee what will happen if you plan ahead of time. Imagine
the situations and think of possible solutions.Good
planning also requires that teachers create classroom plans
with his students. Classroom rule list will be a good output.
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 Establish authority and rules in the first day…be consistent.
 1. Know what you want and what you don't want.
2. Show and tell your students what you want.
 3. Ask students how they want their class to be.
 4. Remind the consequences.

7.  Clarity and Consistency
 In order to create a positive learning
environment your students should know
what to expect from you each day. You need
to be consistent.
 Strategies. Make sure you connect with the
students using your student-based
approaches and learning approaches. Do not
overdo.

8. CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE
AND MANAGEMENT

9.  Establishng Cleanliness and order. Before starting the class, be
sure evryone is seated well, comfortable. The class is free from
litter and loiter.
 Fairness
 Students have a distinct sense of what is and what is not fair. You
must act fairly for all students
 Deal with Disruptions with as Little Interruption as Possible
 When you have classroom disruptions, it is imperative that you
deal with them immediately and with as little interruption of your
class momentum as possible. If students are talking amongst
themselves and you are having a classroom discussion, ask one of
them a question to try to get them back on track.

10.  Avoid Confrontations in Front of Students
 Whenever there is a confrontation in class there is a winner
and a loser. Obviously as the teacher, you need to keep
order and discipline in your class. However, it is much
better to deal with discipline issues privately than cause a
student to 'lose face' in front of their friends.
 Keep High Expectations in Your Class
 Expect that your students will behave, not that they will
disrupt. Reinforce this with the way you speak to your
students. When you begin the day, tell your students your
expectations. For example, you might say, "During this
whole group session, I expect you to raise your hands and
be recognized before you start speaking.

11.  Be Consistent. One of the worst things you can do as a
teacher is to not enforce your rules consistently.
 Proximity
Students who talk a lot, are misbehaving, or are not paying
attention can usually be controlled using proximity. Remain
relaxed and get closer to them,
 Never touch students when disciplining. When you
discipline, see to it that you don’t; hurt them; you don’t
even throw them harsh words. Just talk to them and let
them realize their wrongdoings. Lead them to the
realization to correct what they did.
 Follow up. Always follow up students who got absent, late
or misbehaving.