Ingredients for great school teachers

SATURDAY, JANUARY 07, 2012
Ingredients for great school teachers

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

 

An effective, dynamic classroom teacher should be a student for life, dedicated to excellence and always willing to learn, unlearn and relearn how not what to think. What characteristics make an especially inspiring role model?
Be passionate/compassionate; be creative/innovative; be flexible/open to change; be positive/fair-minded; be enthusiastic/encouraging.
“Classroom teachers are the only real agents of school reform.” – Donna M Marriott
Charles Frederickson
Bangkok