Professional teachers

Professional teachers:

To sum up, 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:

Professional teachers:

1.      Know their students well.

Students are not only intellectual but also social and emotional beings, and all these dimensions interact to impact learning and performance.

2.      A Professional teacher respects students. 

In the classroom, each person’s ideas and opinions are valued. Students feel safe to express their feelings and learn to respect and listen to others. This teacher creates a welcoming learning environment for all students.

3.      Joke with their students and create relaxed class environment

4.      Are always patient with students

A professional teachers possess good listening skills and take time out of their way-too-busy schedules for anyone who needs them. If this teacher is having a bad day, no one ever knows. The teacher leaves personal baggage outside the school doors.

5.      Plan everything before they come to the class

Ø  Understand learner’s needs

Ø  Diagnose learner’s learning problems

Ø  Plan suitable instructional goals for lessons

Ø  Select and design learning tasks

Ø  Evaluate students learning

Ø  Design and adapt tests

Ø  Evaluate and choose published materials

Ø  Adapt commercial materials

Ø  Make us of authentic materials

Ø  Make appropriate use of technology

Ø  Evaluate their own lessons

6.      Develop a plan

Writing a personal professional development plan, will help you to identify the specific tasks and goals you need to complete to achieve progress in your career. Aim to identify both short-term and long-term goals with time scales included. This will focus your planning and enable you to monitor and assess your professional progress, as well as enhancing your personal motivation.

7.      Never waste time

A professional teacher understands the need to start the day well, every day. Truly professional teachers will make sure that they arrive at least ten minutes before the first bell rings, so as to prepare themselves mentally for the day ahead.