Do you remember your First Teacher when you are in Grade School? Can you still recall their name and the memorable moment you have while you were in their class?

Did it make you laugh or did it make you feel embarrassed?

Maybe you can relate with this Teacher’s characteristics. That still existing in today’s generation of Y, X and Millennial’s.

The following six teacher personality traits make classroom management more difficult. You’ll do well to leave them outside your classroom door.

1. Impatience

Impatient teachers talk fast, move fast, and tend to either look the other way in the face of misbehavior, or react emotionally to it.They rush through lessons, gloss over instructions, and out of necessity have lower expectations for students. This produces a restless, excitable classroom that is primed to cause trouble.

2. Quick to Anger

A single flash of anger can undo weeks of rapport building with your students. When you yell, scold, use sarcasm, or otherwise lose your cool, you distance yourself from your students and undermine their trust and respect of you. You become less approachable, less likeable, and less influential—all critical keys to creating a well-behaved classroom.

3. Pessimism

Teachers who are pessimistic in nature are unable to create the well-behaved classroom they desire. Negative thoughts, feelings, and attitudes about students—particularly difficult students—are impossible to hide. They reveal themselves through your words,body language, and tone of voice and make building relationships with them an impossibility.

4. Irritability

Irritability (grouchiness, moodiness) communicates to students that they can’t trust you or depend on you. It creates resentment, confusion, and instability. It also causes you to be inconsistent—both with your classroom management plan and in your interactions with students—leading to more frequent and more severe misbehavior.

5. Overly Sensitive

Teachers with thin skin—those who take misbehavior personally—inevitably, and often subconsciously, seek revenge against their students. They can’t help themselves. Out of their resentment and spite they make the kind of classroom management mistakes like yelling, scolding, and holding grudges that result in a spiraling of student behavior.

6. Easily Frustrated

Frequent sighs, rolling eyes,red-faced lectures. Outward signs of frustration can cause enveloping, knife-cutting tension in your classroom. When you allow students to get under your skin, it not only makes your classroom unnerving and unpleasant, but it causes students to challenge your authority and test you whenever they get the chance. (www.smartclassroommanagement.com)

But of course we have our Favourites. The teacher that we so love.

The one who give high grades. Teachers who inspire us, giving us good words of wisdom like the classic “books before boys”. That until now we talk to them and became part of our life.

Here are some traits possess of a kind hearted loving teacher.

Great Teachers Provide a Warm Environment and Allow Their Students to Make Mistakes.

Great Teachers realize that mistakes often precede great learning. Thomas Edison once said of his many failed attempts to prove something, “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Great teachers understand this too.

Against the backdrop of a supportive environment, Great Teachers encourage risk taking and accept errors. The Great Teacher Coach encourages the young athlete to take the shot. Who knows if he might make it? The Great Music Teacher lets the young pianist try a harder piece that he aspires to learn. Perhaps the teacher’s initial assessments are wrong and he is capable.  The Great Parent Teacher is probably the most important teacher of all. He allows his children to make choices and live with the consequences. He knows that experience often provides more memorable lessons than lectures ever could.

Great teachers do not say things like, “You’re not really cut out for this.” “This is not your thing.” They realize that students soon learn their own limitations and do not put false ceilings up for them.

 

Great Teachers Are Positive; Great Teachers Smile

Great Teachers believe in themselves. They believe in others. They look for the best in both and their attitude reflects it. They are positive, not negative. Great Teachers also smile.

Mr. Harekrushna Behera, Unchahar, a teacher and personal tutor wrote in Teacher, Do You Smile? “(A) smile is the expression of love. It’s the magnet, which pulls all towards itEverybody wants a smile A teacher touches the heart of a student through the magnetic touch of smile. (A) smile creates confidence (and learning) happens only when students start likingthe teacher. ..

“Smiling offers many benefits. It makes one look more attractive. It can alter one’s mood. Scientists speculate it can relieve stress and possibly boost the immune system. But one really good reason for a teacher to smile is that it is contagious and conveys a message of personal bonding and encouragement. This facilitates just the right learning environment for most people. This is why Great Teachers smile.

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At the end of the day Teachers are Parents to their students because the time spend in school is longer than the time they spent at home. Being said that, our teachers is our guiding star towards achieving our dreams and aspirations in life we should also return the good heart they share to us by respecting them and allowing them to be our parents while we are at the school aiming for our goals and making friends with our classmates along the way. 

By: Catherine C. Orizar | Teacher I