Teaching is an art and science. teaching skills are to be acquired. Nobody is a born teacher. But the skills are acquired over many years of learning the art. How do you recognize a Great Teacher ?

1. Who is a
Great Teacher ?
Prof. M.J. Modayil
Ex A.S.R.B.
NEW DELHI

2. Ladies & Gentlemen
• I taught for 30 years and I learnt
one single lesson
• You may ask me what took 30
years for you to learn and what you
learnt in 30 years
• This is what I learnt
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3. A great teacher does not
TEACH !
This is the lesson I learnt in 30 years
So what he does ?
GOOD QUESTION
Any Answer ?
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4. A mediocre teacher
TEACHES
A good teacher
EXPLAINS
A superior teacher
DEMONSTRATES
A great teacher
INSPIRES
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5. What makes a
GREAT TEACHER ?
Recollect your childhood
Remember those great teachers
What they did to make your learning
easy and enjoyable?
Recollect those things !
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6. Students say……………..
• S/he is kind, generous, listens to you, has faith in you
• Encourages you, keeps confidence, likes teaching
students, likes the subjects, takes time to explain,
helps you when you are stuck, tells you how you are
doing, allows you to speak, does not give up on you,
cares for your opinion, makes you feel clever, treats
all equally, forgives, tells the truth and
stands by you when you are in distress
• S/he is a GOOD TEACHER !!!!
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7. A Great Teacher is……..
• Affectionate
• Knowledgeable
• Smiling
• Curious
• Honest
• Passionate
• Imaginative
• Resourceful
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• Tolerant
• Reflective
• Patient
• Committed
• Creative
• Sense of purpose
• Sense of humour
• Makes you feel great

8. A great teacher is always…….
• Willing to learn
• Positive
• Flexible
• Kind
• Good communicator
• Smiling and humorous
• Innovative in approach
• Concerned about you
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9. Are great teachers BORN ?
Are great teachers MADE ?
Can teaching be taught ?
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10. A great teacher is………
• Not Born
• Is MADE
• Teaching is a SKILL
• Skill is to be ACQUIRED
• Practice makes one skillful
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11. Chu Po Yu was a great scholar
• His disciple was appointed to teach the prince who
was a difficult personality
• The disciple asked the Master for advice
• The great master said; “ The first thing you
must do is not to improve him, but to improve yourself”
• How TRUE !
• Teaching is a dynamic skill and one needs
regular training, retraining and refreshing
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12. A Great teacher knows……………
• The Subject
• The Students
• The Weakness of the most dull
student in a class
• How to help him to learn
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13. A great teacher is structured……….
• He knows WHAT TO TELL
• He knows HOW TO TELL
• He TELLS what he wants to TELL
• He TELLS the students to TELL what he TOLD
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14. A great teacher takes risk……...
If there is no chance of failure,
then success has no meaning !
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15. A great teacher is positive…………….
………….…...........................ALWAYS
• Let me ask you a Question
• Do we need smart, hardworking, self motivated
brilliant students ?
• Or, do we need dull, lazy, unmotivated, average
students?
• What is your CHOICE ??????
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16. A Great teacher will prefer the second category
• Why ?
• Because, there is no need to teach the
First Category. They will learn themselves.
• Teacher is needed for the
Second Category who need
help to learn
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17. A Great teacher has never any idle
time…………………………
• Because s/he is always busy
learning and refreshing
• Busyness lead to more busyness
• But s/he has all the time for a
student, especially a weak one
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18. A Great teacher recognizes
that………………
• The students are overgrown
CHILDREN
• Therefore, they must be respected as
an adult, but treated with kindness as
a CHILD
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19. A Great Teacher gives…….
• Confidence to the students
• Encourages questioning
• Encourages lateral thinking
• Motivates to search for new
information
• Listens, learns and thanks
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20. A Great teacher…………
• Receives feed backs
• Watches for body languages
• Receives
• Responds
• Encourages
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21. A Great teacher…………….
• Comes well prepared
• Provides examples, statistics, definitions,
demonstrates, uses loud and clear voice, postures,
gestures, body language, facial expressions
• Never dictates notes
• But explains, repeats, clarifies, pauses
• Encourages students make notes
• Keeps the students attentive, captivated,
mesmerized
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22. Tips for improving teaching
• Never carry books, notes to the lecture hall.
Carry only chalk pieces ,as many as possible
• Go well prepared. The thumb rule is 2 hours of
preparation is needed for 1 hour of lecture
• Use black board, not power point
• Don’t read from any text
• Use ‘note cards’ if you must
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23. Tips for improving teaching
• Keep smiling
• Know every one by name and use their
names
• Listen
• Empathize
• Use humour
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24. Tips for improving teaching
• Follow the 3 GETs
• Get in to your subject
• Get the subject in to you
• Get the subject in to the students
DID YOU GET THE PONT?
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25. As a Great Teacher, you will
never…………………
• Do anything which lowers the dignity of a GURU
• Lose your temper
• Lose your patience
• Lose your character
• Lose your values
• Lose your commitment
• Lose your vision
• Lose your mission
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26. As a Great Teacher, you will
never…………………
• Insult or humiliate a student
• Lose your temper when others do not pull along
• Stop trying to help
• Give up your efforts
• Be in a hurry
• Be unkind
• Say you know everything
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27. As a Great Teacher, you will
always try to be…………………
• Tender with the young
• Compassionate with the aged
• Sympathetic with the striving
• Tolerant of the weak
• Forgiving to the wrong
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28. Some DOs and DON’Ts
• Remember, you are a GURU
• A GURU is one who is regarded as having great
knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area,
and who uses it to guide others (= teacher).
• So you need to conduct yourself as a GURU
• In other words, BE A ROLE MODEL, not a ROLL
model
• Conduct yourself in a way that the students
admire you for your knowledge, values
and ethics and will try to emulate you
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29. Follow the basics of good
teaching…………
• Plan, plan, plan
• Prepare, update, rehearse
• Use good voice, body language
• Be confident, alert, energetic
• Be yourself, don’t imitate
• Use dramatics, gestures, modulations
• Pause for doubts, questions
• Encourage feed backs, discussions
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30. Follow the basics of good
teaching…………
• Remember, 75 % of what people communicate
with each other is NONVERBAL
• Maintain eye contact
• Don’t read from any text
• Listen, show empathy
• Be enthusiastic, sincere, self motivated,
courteous, objective
• Wear the “ATTITUDE”
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31. Follow the basics of
good teaching
• Be well organized
• Be a good time manager
• Be a good class room manager
• Be reasonable with demands of students
• Be firm while using authority, but be kind
• Be courteous while declining
unreasonable demands
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32. Follow the basics of
good teaching
• Never scold or humiliate a student in an
open class. In fact never humiliate any one
in life.
• If you need to advise, invite to your
chamber, offer a seat and have an open
talk with out losing temper. S/he will
stand to gain from your advice and
will be ever grateful
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33. REMEMBER !
• A great teacher is NOT BORN, but
MADE.
• It takes GREAT EFFORTS to become
a great teacher
• YOU CAN, IF YOU THINK
YOU CAN !!!!!!!!!!
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