This document discusses the qualities and competencies of effective art teachers. It notes that good teachers have warm, confident personalities and groom themselves appropriately without distraction. The most important quality is a teacher's commitment to students' intellectual growth. Teachers should strive for personal efficiency while maintaining positive relations with colleagues. Overall, teachers should focus on being themselves and using their strengths to guide students' learning.

1. ADE605
Theory & Approaches in
Art Education
QUALITIES AND COMPETENCIES
OF ART TEACHER
Prepared By :
Mr. Syamsul Nor Azlan Mohamad

2. Quality and Ego
• Personality of good teachers have tended to be – warm,
friendly, understanding.
• Must be conscious, confident and creative.
• Need to face the fact that the pressure of ego involvement will
be present thought their teaching career.
• When teaching students learn something they would not have
learned without the teacher’s effort.

3. Grooming and Appearance
• Grooming and appearance of teachers is subject to
occasionally.
• As long as it does not distract from or interface with the respect
and confidence the students have in the teacher.

4. Speaking Voice and Quality
• Should be pleasing and more important it should carry a quality
of decisiveness and confidence.
• Personality, grooming and voice a sense of commitment of
being a good teacher.
‘Perhaps the most important personality characteristic of a
teacher is the extent of the teacher’s personal commitment
to the intellectual development of students. It determines in
large measure whether he will expend the necessary effort
to teach for real gains in the intellectual growth of pupils or
will merely go through the formal motions of teaching’.
– David Ausuble

5. The Importance of Being Yourself
• Teachers are human being and that no one can fulfill every
suggested quality.
• The reason all the qualities are mentioned is to make readers
aware of what is desirable in an art teacher.

6. Personal Efficiency
• Efficient and well organized.
• Good relations with professional colleagues.
• Sometimes overlook the school clerical and custodial staff or
they feel superior to them and let those feelings show.
• Need to take an active interest in school actives.