Demonstrate your competency

1.Demonstrate your competency

These days it is no longer enough to claim you have the skills and experience necessary to do a job; you need to provide evidence as proof. Once you have identified the competencies (knowledge, skills and behaviour) required for a specific job it is essential that you provide examples of how you acted in real situations in the past which demonstrate these competencies

2.Vary and use different teaching techniques

3.Look for the most suitable activities for students

4.Take an interest in every student

The better you get to know your students, the more influence you will have on their attitude towards your subject and on their lives in general. Remember the adage: "Teachers touch eternity; they never know where their influence may end."

5.Give their students enough time to learn and practice

It so easy to waste time in lessons and not accomplish what you want. Use time limits, say things such as: "Ok, you have 10 minutes to do the activity". This will push students into action. Put a timer in your classroom and let it ring when the time is over. Even better, have a student keep the time. Make it clear and include a timed agenda of how many minutes you are going to be spending on each part of the lesson. This ensures that your lesson moves swiftly and at a good pace.

6.Consult parents. 

Try to include parents in the educational process and encourage their support of the school's disciplinary processes and procedures. Be polite and calm when dealing with parents. Keep reminding them that every discussion about the child needs to be undertaken with the child's best interests at heart.

7.Take responsibility for your students' results. 

As a professional teacher, the grades your students achieve are a reflection on you. Bear this in mind, in all you do.

8.Focus on the goal

Being a professional teacher does not mean that you have to be uncaring or boring if you keep in mind these three principles:

1.See yourself as the students’ mentor, not their friend. 

Effective teachers care about their students and want to be involved in their lives, but they also realize that they must take the role of mentor, not friend. A mentor steers and guides his students without acting like their peer.

2.Be friendly, not familiar. 

Be friendly and open in your interactions with students, but avoid being familiar.

3.Care more about being effective than being liked. 

While everyone has an innate desire to be liked, you cannot let this natural inclination control you as a teacher. If you worry about whether or not your students like you, you won’t be professional, and your classroom will become very difficult to control. Instead, focus on your desire to be an effective teacher whom the students can respect.

Conclusion

Being a good and successful teacher is not a talent, but a skill you learn and acquire through time. The list bellow shows the most important features of professional teachers:

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Know their students well.

A Professional teacher respects students. 

Joke with their students and create relaxed class environment

Are always patient with students

Plan everything before they come to the class

Develop a plan

Never waste time

Demonstrate your competency

Vary and use different teaching techniques

Look for the most suitable activities for students

Take an interest in every student

Give their students enough time to learn and practice

Take responsibility for your students' results. 

Focus on the goal