AN IDEAL TEACHER

An Ideal Teacher

A teacher is the person who teaches students. But, it is not an easy task to teach someone. To teach is to change someone. Actually, education is about human development. It is for the development of culture and knowledge, as well. Teaching is a job based on commitments between teachers and students. It is never a business or a market. It is, therefore, not wrong to say that every teacher is not a teacher in the true sense. For a teacher to become an ideal, it is compulsory to acquire some fundamental intrinsic values. Only those qualities can make the teachers to lead the future of their students. The teacher must possess a dynamic personality for the same purpose. A dynamic personality stands for the established set of internal characteristics and tendencies that determines the psychological behaviour of people. It includes qualities like honesty, sincerity and punctuality and an ability to lead as well as to make complex study materials a simple thing. Besides, a teacher must have the power of effective communication and display extreme simplicity. An ideal teacher has everlasting impression on the psyches of his students and dedicates his/her whole life to the cause of education. If an ideal teacher is found, students can surrender their life for their teachers. Otherwise, Students do not like a mediocre teacher. It was the ideal teachers who produced the great personality of the world in the form of Vivekananda, Arjuna and others. An ideal teacher is always like a beacon light before the students.

Mahatma Gandhi once told that the true teacher regards himself as a student of his students. Is it not difficult for an ordinary teacher? An ideal teacher knows that the whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. s/he explains the importance of experience as it is the best teacher and is more lasting. It is accurate, complete and permanent. It is the first hand knowledge which teaches the art of living. In short, an ideal teacher should have to possess a number of qualities. He/she should be well qualified and good natured. The ideal teacher must have the depth of knowledge. S/he must take all pains to make the students understand and grasp the difficult chapters of the subject. S/he should come to the class always on time and well-prepared. S/He must teach students very sincerely. S/He makes the classroom teaching very motivating. S/He should try to answer very gently and patiently to the queries of students. S/He should be a hard task master. S/He should take care of the backbenchers. S/He is a strict disciplinarian. S/He must maintain faultless control in the class.

An ideal teacher has a play-way approach of the teaching. His or her teaching is generally based on the scientific methods. S/He always writes clearly on the blackboards the main points of the lesson so that students can find it much easier in keeping notes at home. S/He takes care of each student. S/He recognizes all students by names and by face. S/He should be a kind-hearted and affectionate person. S/He has a smiling face. S/He loves students like his/her own sons or daughters and guides them properly.

When students go to the ideal teacher and seek his/her help and guidance, s/he treats them gently. S/He helps them in time of need. s/He is a social worker also. The vastness of teacher’s knowledge and qualities of character intensely impressed students. s/He is busy in the pursuit of knowledge. s/He never allows students to be idle or undisciplined. Students draw inspiration from the ideal teacher. Hence, they have all regards and respects for him/her.