Month: September 2017

The perfect recipe for an ideal teacher

Kriti Mehra

1/2 litre of creativity, 3/4 cup of patience, 2 cups of tolerance, 5 cups of open-mindedness, 3 tablespoons of skill, a dash of motivation and a dollop of inspiration. Mix all of these and you get a perfect teacher!

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Bring them out of the box

Sakshi Mathuria

Being able to connect with students, humility and a willingness to listen and understand students– these are what students look for in an ideal teacher.

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What makes a learner?

Sumana Kasturi

There is a lot of responsibility that we place on our teachers today and a lot of things that we expect them to be and do. So perhaps a simpler way of answering the question–what makes a teacher?–is to answer the question–what makes a learner? Here is a list of qualities a mother identifies for her children and students everywhere to have in order to be good learners.

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Let’s cook up the perfect teacher!

Sudharani Uppala

Flexibility, communication, humour, compassion, imagination– a good teacher should possess all these qualities and should work with both her head and her heart in order to teacher the “whole” child.

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On being a teacher

Alok Mathur

What makes a teacher depends largely on the relationship that a teacher builds with his students. A relationship that leads the teacher to observe his students, identify their needs, understand them and work with them to help them emerge as good human beings; a relationship that is reciprocal in which a teacher gains as much as he gives.

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