Ideal qualities for teachers of not so ideal students
Patience, compassion, understanding and humour – these are the most frequently cited as the qualities of an ideal teacher in my students’ English essays. However, in the real world of less-than-ideal students, these noble qualities may prove to be speculative. One student contended that an ideal teacher must be patient enough to tolerate the misbehaviour of the mischievous student. That would not be of any benefit to the character and moral development of the student would it? In a classroom of rowdy, notorious and vulgar students, I suggest the ideal qualities a teacher must posses are totalitarianism, creativity and charisma.
"Scccold you ah!"Totalitarianism is the first must-have ideal quality for teachers to handle erroneous students. Such students today would refuse to complete their assignments, daydream during lessons and sprout vulgarities at the tiniest of all issues. In order to coerce these recalcitrant students to do their homework, a teacher should ideally be a tyrant and compel them into complete submission. This way, students would prepare their assignments, listen to or at the very least, try to pay attention during lessons and would be too terrified to sprout any nonsense. Without such a quality, the students would have the audacity to not do as told, miss parts of the required content knowledge and lack in moral character. Thus, it is essential that teachers are totalitarians to enforce the right values and attitudes in rebellious adolescents.
Secondly, teachers should have creativity to capture the attention of less-than-ideal students.
Being harsh and tyrant on students is very strenuous; nobody really enjoys terrorising students into obedience all the time. In order to enhance their learning, a teacher should ideally be creative, to invent new methods of teaching, allowing students to have greater participation and to take a proactive approach to learning in a fun and interactive manner. This would be able to captivate the interest of students ever so fond of straying to wonderland. Without being creative, a teacher would have to terrorise them into paying attention or else these students would start chatting, daydreaming, even shouting across the classroom and maybe bellowing obscenities in the presence of the teacher. Hence, a teacher should ideally be creative in presenting bromidic lessons in new fashion to captivate the interest of the students and catalyse their learning.
Finally, teachers of not-so-ideal students should have charisma. Charisma is a real useful trait especially when
less-than-ideal students are unmotivated and even reluctant to work for their academic results or future to say the least. A charismatic teacher would be able to inspire students to work hard and turn their aspirations into reality. In addition to igniting the fire and passion for learning in students, charismatic teachers help to touch hearts and mould the character of students by the nurturing role they play: correcting their misbehaviour and being a role model for students to follow. As a result, the student would become diligent in their work and nurtured into responsible adults.
Without inspiring teachers, students may remain in their state of under motivation: day dreaming all day, sleeping in class or students may deteriorate in their moral standards: lying, touching members of the same sex or becoming hooligans and liabilities to the state. As such, it is desirable for teachers of non-ideal, under motivated, recalcitrant students to have charisma, to inspire them to be the best they can be.
Irrevocably, to handle the incorrigible students, teachers should be totalitarians, to induce fear and apprehension in them to do their assignments as told and to curtail misbehaviour of the students. Taking a two-pronged approach, teachers should also be creative in presenting their lessons to enhance the learning of the students and at the same time, be charismatic to inspire and shape the hearts and minds of the students.
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