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Teaching Tip | Week 3: Refining Your Teaching
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Qualities of Great Teachers
Here’s an ever-growing list of the qualities of great teachers collected from students, teachers, and researchers in education. The qualities have been organized into categories, but some fall into more than one category. Identify the qualities that you valued as a student, those that you think you’re already doing well, and those you’d like to take on as teaching goals. Choose one per week or one per class to focus on. Talk with your colleagues about their approaches to get ideas.
Great teachers: |
Teacher and Students’
Emotion, Motivation, and Behavior |
- Enjoy their subject.
- Enjoy their students.
- Take risks and "push the envelope."
- Are lively and inspiring.
- Work to keep themselves and their
students from becoming complacent.
- Foster self-motivation in their students.
- Don’t give up on their students.
- Encourage each of their students to
believe in themselves.
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Teacher and Student Interaction
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- Are impartial.
- Value their students’ diverse cultures,
talents, and ways of learning.
- Are approachable.
- Are aware of nonverbal dynamics.
- Learn from their students and tell them so. Encourage cooperation among students.
- Are empathetic.
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Organization and Planning
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- Are organized.
- Keep good records.
- Plan carefully.
- Start and end the class on time.
- Have their materials in order.
- Share the plan for the day in a
handout/pdf or on the board.
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- Incorporate visuals, movement, sound, experiences, anecdotes to make the
lesson interesting.
- Listen well.
- Encourage active learning by getting
students to talk, write, move, and create.
- Know their subject thoroughly, yet
present it succinctly.
- Set a good pace and vary the pace.
- Speak naturally, clearly, and loud
enough but not too loud.
- Have a sense of humor/fun,
but know how to keep order.
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References:
McKeachie, Wilbert and Svinicki, Marilla. McKeachie’s Teaching Tips. 12th Ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Gross Davis, Barbara. Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers. 1993.
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