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!
Category: September 2017
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.
A perfect blend of qualities
Kashish Gupta
Here is a visual representation of what a student thinks makes a good teacher.
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.
The empathetic energiser
Geeta Gujral
A poem by a teacher from a student’s perspective, that talks about the importance of a teacher in a student’s life.
Teacher quality: measured on the happiness scale
Priya Mathur
One comes across several kinds of teachers in one’s life–the conventional, the experimental, the maverick, the nurturer. A good teacher has a little bit of all these different aspects.
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.
Three questions for my child’s teacher
Anjana Nayar
Parents today want their child’s teacher to be observant, open-minded and accepting and be able to prepare children to live in an uncertain future.
Learning from memory and laughter
Anuradha Venkatesh
A good teacher must be able to generate enthusiasm, respect the child, be honest, and humorous.
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.