Sunday, July 31, 2011

Tips for being a good teacher

Teaching is a lucrative profession. And, as the education sector in India is getting recognition in both national and international arena, opportunities for teaching professionals are expected to grow further. But, not everyone in this profession can benefit from these opportunities. If you want to do well in this field as a teacher, inculcate some intrinsic personality characteristics in you along with brushing up your professional skills. It will help you cover miles in your career.
Personality Traits of Good Teachers
Every profession has its own demand and requirements and teaching is no exception. Before brushing up your professional skills, you first need to work on the basic personality traits. These include:

Passion: You need passion to motivate children to learn and perform things which are acceptable, relevant and meaningful.

Communication: In order to understand students and class, you first need to have great communication skills. If you are a good listener with sharp memory, your job will become easy. You should encourage students to ask questions and be ready with responses.

Flexibility: You should be comfortable in creating a fine balance between leniency and strictness in classroom.

Style: A teacher is a role model of many students and hence, having a good personality is very important. It includes dressing sense, presentation and mannerisms.

Humor: Unlike teachers of yester years, you need to interact with your students in a lighthearted way. You need to be friendly. Sometimes, cracking harmless jokes is required. But again, you must use your discretion to judge a particular situation.

Care: You should be caring and loving towards kids. It will help you understand them and accordingly, teach them.

Leadership: Since you have the responsibility to mould the youth of today into confident and responsible citizens for tomorrow, you first need to inculcate leadership qualities in you. You must know to make utmost use of the available funds, resources and manpower.
Teamwork: For a good teacher, it is a must to be a good team player also. He or she should work in collaboration and coordination with seniors and juniors.

Respect: If you give respect, you earn it as well. So, it’s important that you pay respect to your students. This is a sign of a supremely good teacher.

Professional Skills of Good Teachers
A good teacher, instructor or professor needs to possess excellent professional skills also in addition to a set of soft skills. While sound academic qualification is important, you as a teacher need to master some classroom etiquettes as well. These are:

Planning & Provision: An excellent teacher knows well to plan his or lessons for next day in advance. He or she needs to gather learning materials beforehand so that the class does not have to wait.

Paper Correction: Often teachers take long time to assess student’s performance in exam, which in turn creates nervous feeling or cause loss of interest in them. So, if you don’t want this situation to occur, make sure to correct papers on time.

Interactivity: While you are in the classroom, do interact with students. Don’t let your classroom slip into a monologue. It will create boredom and subsequently, defeat the very purpose of teaching.

List of Teacher Training Institutes in India


Teaching is a responsible job and therefore, casual or frivolous behavior cannot be taken at any stage of this profession. When you take up this role, you actually assume a huge responsibility on your shoulders. It becomes your duty to prepare the youth of the country for future course. You show them the path to become a good citizen, human being and a responsible person. Since the task is so heavy, you first need to train yourself for all these. There are many good teacher training institutes in India where you can go for guidance. Some of these colleges are listed below.
A.M.S Mannadiar Memorial Teacher Training Institute for Women, Kerala: In the Palakkad or Palghat district of Kerala, this National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) recognized college offers undergraduate Teacher Training Certificate (TTC) courses. The duration of this course is tow years. Its infrastructure facilities are modern and well suited for present-day’s teachers.

Address
Koduvayur Post, Palakkad - 678 501, Kerala, India
Ph No:             +91-491-3324169      
Email: ttiams@gmail.com

Adarsh Subhash Tayal College of Education, Haryana: Located in the small town of Hissar in Haryana, this institute offers excellent teaching and training facilities to interested candidates. Here, you can to undergraduate Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) program. Formed under University guidelines, the course runs for one year. Further, this institute is accredited by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).

Address
Jind by Pass Road, Hansi, Hisar - 125 033, Haryana, India
Ph No:             +91-1663-254601      
Email: info@astcollege.org

A.G Teachers College, Gujarat: Set up in 1952 in the city of Ahmadabad of Gujarat, this teacher training college is recognized by Gujarat University and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). The college aims to bring out professionally and ethically strong teachers through their strict training procedure. Here, you can pursue Bachelor’s of Education programme.

Address
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, Gujarat
Ph No:             +91-79-26442451      
Email: agteacherscollege@yahoo.co.in

Acharya Narendra Deo Nagar Nigam Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Uttar Pradesh: Recognized as one of the leading teacher training institute, the institute provides high standards of educational courses. This institute is accredited by Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University/ Kanpur University and National Council for Teacher's Education (NCTE). Managed by city’s Municipal Corporation, the institute offers well designed undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs.

Address
Harsh Nagar
Kanpur - 208 012
Uttar Pradesh
Ph No:             +91-512-2535887      
Email: info@andnnmm.com

Navjeevan Education Society’s Adhyapak Vidyalaya (D. Ed. College), Maharashtra: Located in the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai in Maharashtra, this college conducted its first training session in 2005. It is acknowledged by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) of Bhopal and accredited by Maharashtra State Council of Educational Research & Training of Pune. The college offers Diploma in Elementary Teacher (D. Ed.) for two years. The medium of instruction is Marathi.

Address
IInd Floor, School Complex,
Ganesh Nagar, Ganesh Path, Bhandup (w),
Mumbai - 400 078, Maharashtra, India
Ph No:             +91-22-22904348      , 25952603
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