Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Department of Languages
Faculty of Social Sciences and
Humanities
Online Lectures
Year and Semester
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Year-3 Semester-1
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Subject
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Industrial Training
on Teaching Practice-5
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Subject Code
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TEF 3112
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Course Unit
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Qualities of a Good
Teacher
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Date
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18.05.2020
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Time
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Practical: 9.00
am-11.00 am
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Lecturer
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D.N. Aloysius
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Practical Hours
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02
Total No of Hours: 10
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Good Communication skills
One of the most essential qualities of an ideal teacher is
the possession of good communication skills. A teacher's professional ability
to interact with fellow educators, parents, and students in multiple languages,
play a crucial role while acquiring a teaching job or during promotions.
Presently, having good command over the English language as well as the
regional dialect is one of the major requirements for becoming a teacher, as
they help them to create an effective student-focused teaching and learning
environment for students.
Good Classroom Management Skills
Teachers with good classroom management skills have better foresight with engaging and
disciplining students in classrooms. Thus, acquiring the attribute not only
paves a path to a better relationship with the students but also greatly aids
in professional development for the teachers. Moreover, possessing the ability
to handle students empowers educators to anticipate a learner's
characteristics, nature, and level-of-understanding better and, strategize
effective and personalized teaching methods to making content interesting in
the classroom for every student.
Good Student-teacher collaboration
skills
Possessing good student-teacher collaboration skills allows
teachers to interact and communicate better with students, attend to the needs
of students' quickly, and resolve learners' problems relating to the subject(s)
more efficiently. Cultivating an interactive atmosphere helps teachers to build
a mutual relationship and respect with students whilst ensuring proper
impartation of education.
Plenty of patience and confidence
Possessing personality character
attributes such as patience and confidence, identified with being a sympathetic
individual and having an affectability to students, are one of the best and
powerful characteristics required to become a successful teacher.
Capacity to structure engaging
teaching and lesson plans for students
The most critical and complex part
of being a teacher is creating an effective teaching strategy for
students. Creating
engaging lesson and unit plans gives
teachers' perspective with regards to the lesson objectives, allows educators
to anticipate problems of students, and ensures that the aim of teaching meets
its targets and learning happen prosperously.
Cleverness in integrating Edtech
with education
The Chalk and Blackboard teaching method is old and
ineffective while trying to impart real-time education to students. Edtech,
short for Education Technology, provide sophisticated platforms such as Learning
Management System (LMS), Virtual
Reality (VR) Classroom tech, and
Smart Class technology to teach students theoretical concepts and complex subjects
more efficiently using real-time scenarios, 3D demonstrations, and interactive
audio & video presentations. Thus, it is more essential now than ever, for
teachers to stay updated with the changing trends in education and show
cleverness in integrating Edtech in classrooms.
Practical: Explain the
good qualities of a teacher.
References:
1.
Qualities
of Effective Teachers by James H. Stronge
2. The Teacher Quality Index: A Protocol for Teacher Selection
by James H.
Stronge, Jennifer L.
Hindman
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