3-Attention Teachers!!! : 101 Qualities Worth Acquiring!!!

The teaching- learning process has the potential to serve as a powerful instrument of social, economic and cultural transformation of society. But…  both ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’  are complex processes. However teacher training institutions are  tirelessly engaged in  pruning effective teachers for tomorrow. How should the new teacher be? What qualities should the teacher of  tomorrow possess?

The author  based on his decade old  experience as a teacher educator , attempts to list down for would-be teachers, 101 Qualities worth acquiring !!!

1. Ability to assign appropriate tasks for the really bright learners
2. Ability to chalk out plans for underachievers
3. Ability to evoke  attention  while teaching
4. Ability to motivate learners
5. Ability to organize classrooms that nourish and reflect the teaching programme
6. Ability to  assign  purposeful individual  learning activities
7. Ability to organize teaching and learning  space
8. Ability to set  relevant  and challenging teaching and learning objectives
9. Ability to use ICT effectively for teaching
10. Ability to design coherent instruction
11. Ability to establish a culture for learning
12. Ability to give constructive feed back to learners
13. Ability to  make learning meaningful
14. Ability to  properly monitor  learning
15. Ability to plan opportunities  to learn in out of institution contexts
16. Adaptable
17. Adept at classroom management during group work
18. Adept at devising appropriate teaching strategies
19. Adept at handling mixed-ability classes
20. Adept at improvising  cost effective aids  for teaching
21. Adept at managing lesson procedures
22. Adept at relating to others
23. Adept at speaking at public functions
24. Adept at time management
25. Adept at  providing suitable anecdotes
26. Adept at giving due praise for learner achievement
27. Approachable for discussing personal and learning difficulties
28. Awareness of ones own short comings and striving  to overcome it
29. Clear framework for classroom discipline
30. Connoisseur  at clarifying values
31. Consideration for the learners’ ethnic background.
32. Consideration for the learners’ linguistic background
33. Concern for disadvantaged learners
34. Consideration for  the  learner’s development
35. Creative
36. Culture specialist
37. Deep consciousness of the sanctity  of the image of  the teaching profession
38. Demonstrating  values worth emulating
39. Dependable
40. Developer of learning materials
41. Drive for  self-evaluation
42. Effective writing skills
43. Efficient organizer of seminars and conferences
44. Expert at providing a range of strategies to promote good behaviour
45. Expert evaluator
46. Familiar with group dynamics
47. Familiar with learning styles
48. Felicitator of learning
49. Flexible
50. Friend and philosopher  for learners
51. Good Communication skills 
52. Good researcher
53. Has  good hobbies
54. High expectations for learner behaviour
55. Histrionic skills
56. Humanist
57. Human relations expert
58. Impartial to learners
59. Information seeking initiative
60. Informed  art critic
61. Knowledgeable
62. Leadership skills
63. Life Skills expert
64. Mastery of basic teaching skills
65. Mission driven and passionate about ones calling as a teacher
66. Mobile Human Resource development agent
67. Not  feeling let down by  frustrating  factors in the society
68. Perpetually identifying and preparing  appropriate teaching resources
69. Perseverance to simplify complex learning tasks
70. Performance booster
71. Practical
72. Providing appropriate counselling  for learners in need.
73. Recognizing and responding effectively to equal opportunities issues as they arise
74. Regard for honesty and integrity
75. Respects  learner’s social background.
76. Respects learner’s cultural background
77. Responsive to learners  and colleagues
78. Responsive to the changing needs of ones profession
79. Skilled at  analytical and conceptual thinking
80. Skilled at drawing smiles through  refined jokes
81. Skilled at fine tuning the learners’ affective domain
82. Skilled at interviewing
83. Skilled at tutoring
84. Skilled Curriculum evaluator
85. Sociable
86. Striving for  professional development 
87. Striving to make learning an interesting experience
88. Supplier of useful and essential learning materials to  needy learners
89. Treating  learners with due respect for their disabilities if any
90. Trustworthy
91. Unaffected by learners’ religious background
92. Undying source of inspiration for learners
93. Urge to attend conferences  and seminars to  draw novel ideas and views
94. Very high Emotional Quotient
95. Willing to contribute to corporate life of ones institution
96. Willing to shoulder responsibilities of  ones institution
97. Willing to support those who are in need of  help in learning
98. Willing to take concrete steps  for the elimination of social evils
99.  Willing to work collaboratively with specialist teachers

100.Willing  to share and receive expertise of  other colleagues

101.Willingness to keep in touch with former students