Requirements for Good Teaching
Good teaching requires some basics that a teacher should follow to achieve the main goal
of teaching. Scientists of education have mentioned different methods for good teaching.
In this article, we are going to mention good teaching requirements that were specified by
Professor Richard Leblanc ,from University of York , who was awarded the Seymous
Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence:
1. Good teaching doesn’t mean only encouraging students to learn but teaching them
how to learn. Each student must know the methods of teaching and how to search for
the information.
2. Good teaching is achieved when considering students as knowledge consumers.
Students must receive the information and get the most benefit from it at the same
time. Therefore, teachers should have great knowledge in different fields by searching
new sources of information either inside or outside their area of expertise and try to
use the teaching theories in the class.
3. Good teaching is achieved by having good relations with the students. Keeping in
mind the individual differences between the students . Encourage quiet students and
try to exploit the energy of active students. Teachers should push students to excel in
many fields. At the same time, teachers should respect students and be human and
professional with them.
4. Good teaching doesn’t mean that the teacher follows a specific plan but to be flexible
and have the confidence to deal with any sudden circumstances in the class. Good
teaching means to create new methods better than the existing ones. It means
creativity. A good teacher should have the ability to cooperate with the students’
circumstances and at the same time achieve the goals of teaching.
5. Good teaching means that the teacher should be the leader of the orchestra and each
student is a member in the orchestra and plays a different instrument and in a special
skill. The teacher leads the students and the class. A good teacher interacts with the
students and listens to all the different point of views.
6. Teachers should have a sense of humor. The teacher should be flexible. He should not
be strict all the time . The lesson may include some funny or strange ideas that may
attract the students’ attention; so that they won’t be bored.
7. Good teaching means caring and developing talents and ideas. Teachers should have
a specific time to listen to the students and discuss their ideas. Moreover, a good
teacher should be able to design new syllabuses that suit the students’ levels.
8. Good teaching requires good leadership with clear vision that includes plans for
everything that follows this leadership as personnel, faculties and funds.
9. Good teaching is about supervising all the faculties and trying to organize the work
between them and concentrate on the strategy of team work. Moreover, the
management should reward effective teaching and try to improve poor teaching by
preparing special training courses.
10. Good teaching is achieved by a teacher who chose this career because he enjoys
teaching not because of financial reasons or because he couldn’t find the alternative.
A good teacher sees himself only as a teacher and not anything else.