What makes a teacher great?
A great teacher goes above and beyond basic teaching. A teacher needs to have a passion for what they teach and that way you’ll become interested in the subject and want to learn about it and to please them. A teacher needs to keep students updated on things in a timely manner. School districts now use portals to post grades and also post upcoming assignments. This can be a great thing…….. Or not! Unfortunately over the past few years I’ve noticed it sometimes takes teachers weeks to place grades for assignments in the portal so you don’t have an accurate overall grade either. I believe teachers still need to contact parents if a child’s grades are not up to snuff or they are not doing assignments like they used to. Now everything goes in the portal and there’s less teacher/parent involvement. Teachers need to have compassion. Some students are shy and will not ask a teacher for help if they don’t understand an assignment or a subject in general. Teachers can see a pattern in the students work and need to offer help to this student outside of class time, like during an empty class time, before or after school or during a teacher’s lunch time. Teachers have a powerful impact on students and are remembered for years to come for how they acted so good or bad, caring and compassionate or not. Teachers let your voice be heard!

5 replies on “Daily Prompt 30 June Sunday”
Very well, said, I completely agree. Great teachers are mentors and motivators that lead by example and their passion for what they’re teaching.
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Thank you. I know there are many great teachers out there and I don’t mean just school teachers and I’m so appreciative of them.
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I am too cause I’ve had the other kind the megalomaniac kind and those are the worst. Because they have more knowledge than us they believe that we are inferior to them and it’s so not true.
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I’ve had/met that kind too, unfortunately!
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Amen, Deanne. There is nothing I could add. My children were blessed with quite a few teachers like this and I hope there is a special place in heaven for them!
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