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A TEACHER plays a pivotal role in the process of education. Theoretically, no teacher will ever become totally ideal.

Becoming totally ideal would mean that the teacher has achieved such a level of perfection that she or he no longer requires further effort toward improvement and, consequently, growth would be checked.

Top Ten (10) Traits of an Ideal Teacher


Posted on September 11, 2008

In our first LIBR534 class, we asked the student librarians to interrogate a series of issues such as why they were taking our class, to list the most important issues facing librarianship and to describe their best learning experience. I thought it would be interesting to look at some of their top (most commonlymentioned) traits for the ideal teacher.Enjoy! Dean Ten (10) Traits of an Ideal Teacher 1. An ideal teacher is humanistic someone who cares about his/her students. 2. An ideal teacher establishes clear and transparent guidelines for assessment, and clear expectations. 3. An ideal teacher makes you feel hopeful and praises your attempts to learn. 4. An ideal teacher truly cares about your individual goals and makes a commitment to help you reach them. 5. An ideal teacher is empathic, caring and knowledgeable and has the skills to impart what is important. 6. An ideal teacher stimulates critical thinking and infuses the joy of learning a new subject with the unique climate of a specific group of students. 7. An ideal teacher is passionate about his/her subject and shares that with students. 8. An ideal teacher can organize students and their abilities to take everyone to a new place intellectually. 9. An ideal teacher listens, inspires, motivates and knows when to use humour. 10. An ideal teacher is also a learner and an observer of others.

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