The salient features of empirical knowledge will be distinguished, one of the two most widespread forms of knowledge, together with scientific knowledge.

Based on experience

This is the key element of empirical knowledge and what differentiates it from scientific knowledge. For a very long time, humanity only had access to empirical knowledge.

1. He is willing to learn
2. Do not neglect your own training
3. Transmits your passion for learning
4. He has the gift of the word
5. It has good reserves of patience
6. He is enthusiastic and delivered
7. It has integrity and authority
8. He is humble
9. Value and stimulate creativity
10. He is intuitive and observant

He is willing to learn

The first trait of a good teacher might seem paradoxical to the naked eye, but as stated by Venezuelan educator and politician. It cannot be an educator who has lost the ability to learn.” The teaching is far from being a unique and rigid method to which all without distinction must adapt since the understanding is given through varied and divergent methods. A good teacher must understand this profound truth and be willing to rethink their schemes, vary their methodologies and above all learn from their own teaching experience.

Do not neglect your own training

Just as knowledge is updated, a good teacher must consider growth challenges that prevent him from becoming stagnant in his methods and in his approach to what he teaches. You should exercise the investigation as well as spend a good time preparing your lessons because nothing is more discouraging than a teacher who is not very interested or instructed in his subject.

Transmits your passion for learning through High Q

The Irish poet William Butler Yeats said that education was not to fill a bucket, but to light a fire. By this, I mean that a teacher has to be a propagator, a stimulus, that inspires his learners in the ways of learning, and not a simple repeater of information. A well-educated student will be one who leaves the classroom with the desire and the tools to understand more about the subject studied.

He has the gift of the word

More than anything in the world, a teacher’s tool is what it says. Therefore, it must have verbal facilities that allow it to express itself not only correctly, but in different ways, in case it needs to vary its approach to the subject in question. You will not always have the same kind of listeners, after all.

It has good reserves of patience

Comprehension is key when building a communicative bridge between a teacher and his students. Not everyone will learn in the same way, nor will they have the same abilities, the same talents, or the same family conditions. A good teacher must be generous with his attention and with the time his students require to understand him.

He is enthusiastic and delivered

Teaching is a profession that pays off late. That should not discourage you. On the contrary, the teacher must possess an innate confidence in the sense of transcendence of his work, because only with time education becomes evident; but when it does, above many things, it becomes noticeable.

It has integrity and authority

This does not mean that he must be a punishing father or a kind of dictator in the classroom. On the contrary, he must know how to earn the respect of his students by becoming a positive link and a role model. Especially with a difficult audience such as the adolescent or people in situations of risk, this may eventually imply imposing, granting a place of authority in the classroom. There are smart ways to do it.

Is humble

To boast of the titles obtained or to protect oneself in the position that is occupied is a poor method to acquire the respect and a bad way of proposing a teaching link. The students are not there to satisfy the teacher’s ego; in any case to learn to deal with their own. A good teacher must be accessible and friendly, it is not necessary to always be on a pedestal.

Values and stimulates creativity

Not always a written exam will be the best way to measure learning. Not always what the book says will be the most useful teaching of a session. A good teacher does not forget that to acquire information there are books and libraries: the class is going to incorporate a dynamic of thought, which has to contemplate creativity, creativity, originality and the capacity for reflection, over and above the memorization of hard data.

He is intuitive and observant

The details, as the proverb says, are everything. A good teacher knows when to approach a distant student, when to demand greater results from a weak one and how to evaluate a group of people with very different potential. It is about appreciating individual learning processes without losing the notion of whole and natural competition. An ideal teacher should know much more about his students than his record of grades.

It must provide the elements so that the teacher is able to issue a personalized value judgment about the student, describing in detail their achievements and the aspects on which they must still work in order to improve. Thus, the evaluation operates as a referent of an individual starting situation and not as a fixed and universal “filter”.

It is flexible: it is carried out throughout the course (= longitudinal) and not as a single instance. It offers several alternatives (examination, research papers, monographs, workshops). It can be developed in the classroom, at home, in the library, online.

Its purpose is to review the design of the course, in addition to determining the degree of progress of the students. However, the requirement they raise and the evaluation method proposed to confirm that this type of education has more benefits than barriers not only for students but also for the institutions and teachers involved.

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