What Makes a Good Teacher

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What Makes a Good Teacher

        There are many excellent qualities a good teacher should have. I will explain a selection of them.

        A good teacher should know their subject well because children cannot ask questions to the teacher and get a satisfactory explanation if the teacher does not have background knowledge about his or her subject.

        A good teacher needs to be able to explain what the work is and how to complete the work or tasks given. I think this is important because the pupils levels would be affected if they do not do the work given (in the tests afterwards they would not know the answers) .    

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        A good teacher needs to be encouraging and motivating towards children, especially towards children who need extra help and/or are disobedient as some children in this circumstance feel the teacher could do more in their part to help them learn (some teachers do not help them as much as they help the high flyers of the class because they are not going to get anywhere in life).

        A teacher should mark work fairly and not favour the children that are better behaved and more respectful towards them because if the badly behaved kids thought the question they answered was ...

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