In this article, we have extracted the most important and the most essential skills required to be a competent teacher from the most famous theories on teaching skills.
A teacher is a person who helps you to become a successful person in your life by making you acquire knowledge.
“ Teachers act as a candle that passes their light to their students”
Effective Teaching skills a Teacher Must Have
Communication Skills
“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh Click To Tweet
As a teacher, you must have excellent communication skills. We have listed some factors which amazing communicators have:
- Good sense of humour so that the lecture does not gets boring.
- Sound pitch
- Pause during a conversation.
- Command on verbal language (good vocabulary).
Along with it, try to overcome all the barrier’s in the communication so that a child
must have a better understanding of the lectures.
Communication barriers include:
- Psychological barrier
- Language barrier
- Technology barrier
- Physical barrier
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” Anthony Robbins Click To Tweet
Command On Subject
The most effective skill one must have as a teacher is to have an excellent grip on his subject and subject matter expertise. i.e. the concepts should be made clear cut to the students while teaching them leaving no mark of confusion. Very use full method is the question-answer method in the class right after you have completed your lecture so you can have an idea of whether the students were able to understand the subject or not.
Explaining Skills
A teacher must have good explaining skills. He must use examples from daily life to make the topic interesting and clear to the students. Also keeping in view the attention span of the students. The teacher must take short breaks in the lecture so that the students must absorb what they have heard and can grasp good understanding. The use of reinforcement in class can increase in the attention span of the students which will directly be an advantage for the teacher. Hence using these methods teachers should make the lecture simple and interesting.
Competence
To be a teacher you must be competent in your field you must know how to do teamwork because you are not to only interact with students but with a group of teachers and staff members at the school. You should be reliable for your words, polite, and must have a strong attitude towards teaching. And must be able to adapt to any such environments and must be highly devoted to your work.
Tolerance
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. -George Eliot Click To Tweet
A teacher must be able to tolerate with students and the staff members. Because when you go to a teaching environment you are interacting with all sorts of groups of beliefs cultures and attitudes hence you have to be tolerant in the field.
Leadership Skills
A teacher must have leadership skills as he has to guide the students who are going to the server for the next generation. Leadership is not for specific people it is available to each one of us. According to Robin Sharma:
Leadership is a philosophy. It’s a mentality. It’s a state of mind it's a way of operating -Robin Sharma. Click To Tweet
Teachers are the models for their students. Students intimate the behaviour of their teachers, their style of speaking, walking, explaining gestures hence everything of a teacher is influential for the students. If the teacher has powerful personality and leadership skills he would be able to transfer them easily to his students.
Planning Skills
One of the most important teaching skill is planning your lecture. You must write down the flow of the lecture. Even you can make bullets, which will help you in delivering the lecture. You must be well prepared for the lecture before going to class. A teacher must have a good observation in order to see if his lectures are being understood or whether they are boring or students are taking interest in them or not.
Technology Skills
Being a teacher you must have a good amount of information about the technology. Using audio-visual aids in order to make the lecture more interesting. Hence it will make the class more interesting and will increase the engagement of the students in the class.
These were the 8 effective teaching skills.
Comment down below if you have these skills. Also, tell us which skill you are going to learn from now on.
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