Love Teaching

     

     There are a lot of professions and people surrender themselves wholly to these vocations. Undoubtedly, the profession of a teacher is one of them. To be a good teacher is not an easy task. Teaching is a very difficult job of great responsibility and most specific character. The most important qualities of it are love for children, an ability to communicate with them, understand and teach them. People say, that an ability to be a genuine teacher is God's gift. It is a talent and it's even more, it's fate. 

     There is a wide variety of work in teaching. A teacher is not only a communicator of knowledge but a model of competence. He or she forms attitudes to his or her subject and attitudes to learning. He becomes himself a symbol of education process. He is a person who is learning as well as teaching. While working and communicating with children a teacher studies them closely. Thus a good teacher always regards capacities his pupils have. That's why he discovers their interests, their strengths, their weakness, their needs and abilities. After that the teacher builds his work and tries to temper his teaching methods to children's abilities and attitudes. A good teacher is like a sculptor. He forms a personality of a child like a sculptor creates a beautiful statue out of clay. The teacher takes an active part in shaping child's character, fostering honesty, kindness, loyalty, cooperation and respect for ideals. 

      Qualities of heart and head go together in the making of a good teacher. His whole attitude is optimistic and cheerful. He doesn't pretend to be overviewed, but is lively, keen and receptive. Such teacher enjoys his work and shares with his pupils their interests for new discoveries. 

       Difficult, wonderful, exhausting, fun, stressful, enlightening, rewarding beyond compare: That's what you hear when you ask veteran teachers what their job is like. Then, when you ask veteran teachers if they would choose the same career if they could live their lives over, the answer is usually yes. 

     Teaching requires enormous patience, and there is no ready-made formula for good teaching. Studies on effective teaching demonstrate that there are nearly as many successful styles as there are successful teachers. 

     Teaching is hard work, and a little encouragement goes a long way. It is important for teachers to edify and support one another, to have opportunities to share their triumphs and tragedies. As professionals, teachers must focus on cooperation rather than competition. Real professionals consult and help one another. 

     A professional should sound like an educated person, always using proper speech and grammar. Here again, teachers need to be appropriate role models for students. 

     Becoming truly professional is a lifelong challenge. Professionalism is a process more than an outcome – a way of encountering new students and new classroom problems and of finding meaning and solution to them as you grow. Educators play a significant role in enhancing the professionalism of the teaching field by demonstrating these characteristics in their own professional lives.