In the class, the teacher is the model to his students. The teacher must be good for his students to be good also. He must be learned for his students to learn too. Above all, he must have patience to teach more importantly the beginners. In such a way, students will learn patiently.

            It is evident that teaching takes place when there is learning. No matter what the teacher is doing, there is no teaching if the students learn nothing. This statement tells us that a teacher therefore must be resourceful and well equipped with the knowledge and expertise in teaching so that learning takes place.

            The most important skill a teacher should possess is his ability to read. This greatly helps the teacher enforce an act of reading appreciation towards his clients. After which, the students can be brought to enter the rich and massive vitality of literary acquisition by having apiece material read.  

            Aristotle said that teachers who educated children deserve more honors than parents who merely gave birth to the mentioned children; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. Aristotle’s point is very obvious because a child who goes to school spends more time in school than at his home. If the mother has given the child life at his birth, the teacher takes care of the future of the child through learning process. Thus, teacher plays a very arduous task in the student’s life.

            Anatole France stated that the whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying them afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy (The New International Webster’s Pocket Quotation Dictionary of the English Language, 2000).

            A teacher must have the ability to communicate very well. His ability to speak and read is viewed by the students as well as those who work with him.

            Bavels and Barret once said that it is possible to view a struggle as an elaborate manner for information transfer… Communication is not a secondary or derived aspect…a mere function. Rather, it is the essence of organized activity and the basic process from which learning is derived.

            Bavels and Barret’s points emphasize the importance of the teachers’ competence in communication to teach effectively because reading is one great discipline of communication.

The teacher who takes care of the students’ reading discipline must have the “know-how’s” of the various reading programs so that a better comprehension will come out. As the teacher introduces different reading materials to his students, the students in return start to learn and value reading as a compressed comprehension process.

            Since reading is a communication process, it must be differentiated from a mere talking.  reading is lively, interested, enthusiastic, and vital.

            Some profiles that a teacher must possess in order to act as model in the reading process:

1. The teacher must feel alive and vital.
2. He must be earnest. In reading orally, the teacher should read the text with a sense of responsibility towards his listeners.
3. He must have a well-modulated voice and be able to use tonal variations.

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By: Mr. Reynante J. DIwa | T-II | Limay National High School