Or more importantly, what makes a teacher good or bad? Is it the fact that they shower daily and don't smell of sweat and bad deodorant? Or is there more to a good teacher than the cosmetic issues that plague our daily life.
In class we were asked to discuss in groups what we think made good or bad teachers, and why and the list was never ending. In both columns.
A good teacher should be: friendly, enthusiastic, helpful, innovation, creative, energetic, compassionate and know their subject.
A bad teacher is: bossy, uninformative, unfriendly, rude, discriminatory, unknowledgeable and lazy.
But teachers don’t walk into the classroom saying “I’m going to be rude and lazy today.” It’s not the pedagogy that seems to matter when the bad teachers walk in, it’s their practice, their attitude and their way of handling situations that seems to get in the way of good teaching.
It is not surprising that when asked what type of teacher I would like to be I reply with everything from column A and nothing from column B. We don’t go into teaching wanting to be bad teachers. It isn’t until we have that year 8 class on Friday afternoon that we realise whether our pedagogy and our planning will make it through.
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