A competent teacher uses their background, personality traits and knowledge to enhance their students' academic performance. The qualities that effective teachers have for students include high confidence, regression, academic skills and excellent access to the subject, as well as student guidance. A teacher should be endowed with qualities such as patience, understanding and judgment, thoughtfulness of students, eloquence and effective expression.
When a teacher establishes discipline with sincerity, dedication, empathy, compassion and a spirit of correction, his personality becomes even sharper. It is important for teachers to have confidence in themselves and their students, which is why they are confident that their students will learn. Teachers should be confident in their own abilities, they should explain the most complex concepts to their students in such a way that they can easily understand. A deeper understanding of the educational material and access to the subjects facilitates the work of the teachers and they succeed in benefiting the students in an imperceptible way.
Environment and dialogue
The most important way to test any student in our education system is exams. But the problem is that usually the goal of the students is to pass the exam instead of acquiring knowledge. Exams can be passed by memorising, but a competent teacher knows that understanding the concept of educational content is actually learning. Teachers need to create an environment where students can easily understand all the concepts that are being taught.
It should be an environment in which students are motivated to acquire knowledge and engage in the various tasks assigned to them. Teachers must have the ability to understand the concepts according to the mental level of the students. The most important role in teaching and learning is the interaction between the teacher and the student. It is through dialogue that teachers have the opportunity to learn about students and the classroom. With the help of this, they adopt a teaching method that is best and most effective for the students.
Purposeful planning
Teacher planning is an effective technique that helps students to be successful. The best teachers have the ability to teach their students through a brainstorming plan. Provide a better experience. The first is the curriculum, which must be completed on time, making it valuable for students' success.
Teachers must understand the importance of effective planning. As far as students are concerned, they should set their goals from the point of view of curriculum learning and not just to get good marks in exams. Effective planning helps students learn more efficiently, but in all of this, lack of time is the biggest obstacle. Effective pre-planning helps teachers make it easier for their students to acquire knowledge, as well as outlines the steps they can take to achieve their goals.
Engage in learning and teaching
Engaging students is just as important as teaching them. Whenever a competent teacher explains the concepts to the students, his focus is on the goal and the students also try to put the concepts into practice. There are several strategies for engaging students and teachers in learning and teaching. The teacher should introduce any lesson in such a way that the students become interested in it.
Many tools are used today in all educational institutions to engage students, such as projectors, slideshows, and documentaries. Learning and teaching strategies can be divided into four stages: content, process, products, and environment. What is the content to be taught? How to teach the process? The products themselves are the teachers who guide and help the students while the environment makes it easy to do all three.
Communication skills
A competent teacher uses communication skills to teach better. Specific teaching strategies, skills and attitudes have a profound effect on the learning environment. A competent teacher helps students set goals because of these skills. This is how a healthy and productive classroom emerges. The teacher develops a good relationship with his students because of his communication skills.
The author is an education, human development, and finance enthusiast currently working in Kigali.