The Meaning Of Teacher

Teaching is an ancient but the most respectful, noble and prophetic profession in the world. Teaching demands a lot of qualities from a teacher and these qualities can be achieved and acquired by a constant progress in this field.
Successful teaching is not just a question of knowing methodology. A teacher may have some super techniques but still fails because his attitude toward the students is not desirable. Thus the golden techniques of teaching fail when the teacher uses authoritative tone for the innocent learners.
Weak students are usually afraid of their teachers, so a teacher should not be a demon for them. First of all he must remove their fears. When they feel a bit free with him then they will learn more. Encouragement from their teacher will make them cross many thresholds.
Teacher must make his teaching interesting. It is possible only when he prepares his lesson well and he is genuinely interested in his teaching work and derives pleasure from it.

The Things Should Be Understand To Be A Good Teacher

So you want to be a good teacher? Well the first thing you have to do is understand what a good teacher really is, what makes them good?
The great thing here is that there has been millions of amazing teachers throughout history that you can study; you don’t have to recreate the wheel, just use it. The same applies, you don’t have to come up with some incredible new technique, just look to what makes a great teacher and use that with your own style and flare.

So what makes someone a great teacher? Well one of the first things you may notice is the passion they have for whatever it is they are giving.

When you are passionate about something you act differently around it and we are very good at subtle communication so we can tell very quickly when you are passionate or not. There will be more movement, there will be more confidence, you will want to talk about it, and it can even be difficult to stop you talking about it. Passion is infectious, if you get excited about something; other people will get excited about it as well.
It is extremely difficult to ignore someone or feel uninterested in someone when they are genuinely excited and passionate about the subject they are discussing.

 What The Teachers Loves To Do

A good teacher loves what he is doing and tries to reach each and every student in his class. He establishes a rapport with his students. He lets the students know that they are special and that he can be counted on to always have their best interest at heart.

A college degree is a prerequisite to a teaching job, but it in no way guarantees that someone will be a good teacher. We've all experienced that teacher who, despite their expertise in their academic area, couldn't show you how to add two numbers together. Mastery of subject matter is of little use if the teacher can't communicate with the student.

Learning to be an effective teacher is something that begins after you start teaching. If someone doesn't realize this from the very beginning in their career, they will never become a good teacher. A good teacher never stops learning. He studies his students. He understands that no two students are the same. Personalities and especially learning styles vary greatly from student to student. Being able to access the resources that will match the learning style of each student is what makes a teacher effective.

Qualities That Teachers Have

Being an excellent teacher is a quality that everyone who is in the profession should crave for. Teaching is a career that calls for a heart involvement. Success in teaching does not come by teaching alone but a deep devotion to ensure that the students have learned.
The under listed are some of the qualities that I have seen from experience as both a teacher and a parent that make a good teacher:

*A good teacher provides personal help - A good teacher will takes time to explain concepts and give individual attention. The issue is not that he has taught, the critical matter is that the students have learned. A good teacher provides an atmosphere that makes it easy for students to ask questions to clarify grey areas in the subject matter.

*Does not play favorites – Even though he gives personal attention, a good teacher does not play favourites either implicitly or explicitly. It might be a difficult task not to be more disposed to some well behaved and brilliant students. A good teacher will however ensure that everyone is carried along.

Honesty and Education

            In connection with education, honesty does not connect itself to the education, but if we connect it with the basic of education, of course it has. Honesty has become more familiar with educational life since honesty have been needed to generate good generation both in attitude and intelligency. In connection to the attitude, honesty is needed to form good behavior towards environment and human beings. This honesty should be emerged since they start becoming a learner. Indeed, honesty does not connect to education directly, but just like an expert says “education without religion is lame, religion without education is blind. In this proverb clearly says that religion that refers to honesty and merits is strongly connected.

            Lately, in our beloved country, INDONESIA, we always hear about fraudulence when the students having an exam. They play with this as if they played in a gambling, the worse one occurs when the teachers involve themselves to do this. As we know that since this country was independent and free from colonialism, we establish our educational system more score-oriented, on the other word,  we do rely on the score, we make the score as the main purpose in education. Unfortunately, this situation is getting worse when the government prevails a standarized score to determine whether the students pass or fail to graduate from their school. Of course, many students learn as hard as they can, but as we know not all of the students can reach and seize the standard that prevailed by the government, the only way they will do is cheating. This way is considered as the best one when they have no choice in facing terrible examination. They are right in one side, because they just want to pass the exam and get graduation certificate.

            This cheating should be decreased or even deleted from our educational system. Because this fraudulence will influence their future work, thay will be accustomed to the bad way to get something. They will just think about themselves, they never care to the others. This is the importance of being honest in education.

            The question eill emerge in our brain “ what should a good teacher do to overcome this problem ?”. Well, as we know that a good teacher will always guide students to be good including avoid the students become dishonest.  It will be very difficult to plant the understanding of being honest in the students themselves, but as long as we are as the teacher we can do it. First, build the students’ self-image, so that they can recognize themselves about who they are. What their majority is and recognize the best learning technique that is appropriate for them. Second, plant self-confidence in them so that they can believe in themselves. The third one is to give them understanding that score is not everything.

            To summarize, the roles of good teacher to generate the better generation in education will be very needed. Honesty becomes the most important thing in education when honesty is on decreasing.

                                                                                   

Posted by : firmansyah

FORGET SOMETHING, SIR ? IT IS COMMON

            It is very natural that every human on the earTh doing or making mistake. Including in the educational environtment, teacher, students sometimes make mistake undeliberately. For some cases or fields making mistake can be considered as the simple ones, but it can influence the students’ reliability towards the teacher. Because, however, mistake is often described as the weaknesses of someone. For a teacher who has responsibility for teaching and educating needs to be aware of this problem, by treating the mistake properly, the teacher can avoid getting their problem that is losing their students’ reliability.

            Avoid making mistake by asking the students back. Sometimes, as a teacher is challenged by his or her students. By asking the hard and difficult questions, the students know the level of teacher’s ability. Lucky, if a teacher can answer the answer. Lucky if a teacher can guess correctly. But, how if the teacher got hammered by being asked such difficult questions ???. what a pity such poor teacher. Here, the writer have an efective way and intriguing technique to “avenge” the challengers in the class. The students ask hard, so does the teacher. If a teacher trapped in this problem of thinking, for instance the teacher does not know the answer of the questions. The teacher may ask for the students’ help back. The wise teacher in such bad condition will say “ ok, I know exactly the answer, but I need to know how far your understanding and your critical thinking are !!” what a smart teacher, his or her students will think. As a teacher who is considered as the highest one in the educational environment gives additional time to students to think and answer difficult questions although, in fact, he or she gives the additional time for them to answer the question.

     

THE RIGHT TEACHER ON THE RIGHT PLACE

            The teacher, as we know is the model for all. It is not matter whether he or she teach in his or her own society where he or she belongs to or at another society. We know that god almighty has made many tribes in many nations in many continents on one earth. In connection with that, a teacher who has responsibility to educate and teach generation, the teacher has to be accostumed or familiar to the situation or different environtment where she or he teaches. How to be familiar to the alien environment, in other word the different society from the teacher’s.

            Tribes, this aspect strongly connected to the race that dwell or settle in somewhere. It is very lucky if a teacher  has his or her duty in the race or tribe where the teacher himself or herself belongs to, but it is rather unlucky if a teacher has a duty in another tribe that can be very different from his or her own. An old proverb says “the home is where we are living” .this problem can be influential for the teacher’s duty, however there must be consequences for everything including “on duty”. Many teachers try to solve this difference as hard as possible but again they fail to solve it. Why ? it is very easy to answer. Solving problem must be begun at the teachers themselves. Being accustomed to the local tribe is the best “solving problem” to this question. We need to be more local like although we should not follow all way. First, try to look chance when we can  commune with the locals, try to understand their overview what they say good and bad thing are. This step will give us as the model to absorb their cultural values. Second, do not give any instruction to them at all. As an educated people, the teacher feels that he or she ought to give some advice to the local. This step will show you how important being silent is. Being silent may be considered as negative;in contrast, the locals will consider it as the best thing for an “alien” like a teacher. They will respect you as the alien and if you break the rule you will be considered as the rebellion. As the result, they will show their hostile attitude towards you.

            Religions, this thing highly influence beliefs of locals and natives. In their religion there must be things that should be done and should not be done.if we have the same religion with the native, may be we are the lucky ones, but how if the teacher that has different religious has duty in such alien society. Absorbing the cultural values will be much longer. The best accutom way is never differ them from us. It will be considered as the equality in teaching. They ( the local) will feel that they are respected listen such pluralism teacher.

 posted by : firmansyah