Monday, February 15, 2010

Great teacher needs great personality

Great teacher needs great personality

By
Sung Hyun Park

EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
January 29, 2010

How can one become a great teacher? Is being a great teacher something we were born with or we learn afterwards? In my opinion, a great teacher is endowed with a great teaching ability. The teachers are also human beings and the human beings have many kinds of personality each other. I think the teachers’ personality can decide the teaching styles. Although a teacher was trained by an education instructor program, his personality could not trained by the program. Being a teacher is personal dream for future but being a great teacher is assessed by other people. Therefore, being a great teacher has to be measured by educational area including academic knowledge, teaching skills and teacher’s personality. As people have their innate specialty, teachers also have their inborn trait that can make a great teacher.

Innately, there are people who do not tend to consider other people. Also, there are teachers who do not tend to consider their students. Tending to consider the students, it depends on teachers’ mind. In other words, it depends on teachers’ personality. The great teacher has to consider their students’ attitude, not only students’ learning attitude in class but also students’ attitude out of class. If a teacher wants to be a great teacher, he should consider his student. However, it is a hard work to take care the students deliberately using by educational program method. That work should be conducted by teacher’s personal inborn mind.

It is totally different that teacher has a great learning ability and teacher has a great teaching ability. There are two types of teachers. First, some teachers have a good ability to learn new knowledge and also they graduated the first level universities, but they don’t have a capacity to teach the new knowledge and information well. However, even if other teachers graduated second level universities, they know how to teach the new information to students using by easy way. How to make students understand easily, it depends on the teacher’s speech skill. The teachers’ speech skills can be decided by personality. Therefore, the teaching skills are also decided by personality.

The personality of teacher is large portion of teaching skills. The personality cannot be made by external facts and also, the personality is individual innate traits. Thus, the great teacher is endowed with personal ability.

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