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Characteristics of good teacher

Characteristics of good teacher



Barry has listed 15 characteristics of a good teacher behaviour, which are as follows:

1.      Buoyancy: Talkativeness, sense of humour, pleasantness, carefreeness, alertness, idealistic.

2.      Considerateness: Concern for the feelings and well being of others, sympathy, understanding, unselfishness, patience, helpfulness.

3.      Cooperativeness: Friendliness, easygoingness, geniality (warmly and pleasantly cheerful), generousness, adaptability, flexibility, responsiveness, charitable.

4.      Emotional Stability: Realism is facing life’s problems freedom from emotional upsets, constancy, poise, self-control.

5.      Ethicalness: Good taste, modernity, morality refinement, cultural polish, conventionality.

6.      Expressiveness: Skill inexpression, verbal fluency communication, competency, literateness.

7.      Forcefulness: Dominance, independence, self-sufficiency, determination, purposefulness, persuasiveness.

8.      Intelligence: Mental alertness, academic aptitude, capacity for abstract thinking, power to comprehend relationship.

9.      Judgement: Wisdom in the selection of appropriate course of action, discretion in dealing with other’s foresight, common sense, clear headedness.

10.  Objectivity: Fairness, impartiality, open mindedness, free from prejudice, sense of evidence.

11.  Personal: Dress, physique, neatness, cleanliness, posture, personal charm, appearance.

12.  Physical Energy: Readiness for effective active force, vigour, energy, eagerness to succeed, ambition, motivation, vitality, endurance.

13.  Reality: Accuracy, dependability, honesty, punctuality, responsibility, painstaking, trustworthiness, sincerity, consciousness.

14.  Resourceful: capacity for approaching through in a novel manner, initiative, originality, creativeness, enterprise.

15.  Scholastic Proficiency: High scholastic aptitude, high scholastic grade point average, through knowledge of subject-matter, well-informed on many subjects, high verbal aptitude, widely read.

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