Teaching Primary School kids is challenging and needs special skills. Teachers often have to instil in them good values and make them grasp the academic content in a way that is fun and understandable. Teachers that possess the below-mentioned qualities are more capable of handling kids and teaching them in an effective manner.
So what are those qualities parents should look for or check during their child’s admission to Primary School. Here we’ve put together a list of some of the qualities that make a primary teacher the best.
Best qualities of a good primary school teacher.
Patience
While handling young children patience is the most important tool or requirement. Handling a lot of students under one roof, making them calm, asking them to carry on their activities without disturbing others and encouraging them to obey all rules can be a little more to expect from them. Handling all their tantrums, mess, tears, etc., requires teachers to be extremely patient and be able to take all of this in their stride.
Caring
Primary school kids look for teachers as their caretakers, trust them completely, and consider them important people after their parents. So it is important for teachers to be extremely kind and caring as it can make a child build trust in the teacher and the school system.
A teacher’s caring nature helps children to open up and connect to them easily.
It can make the teacher’s job easy as children will listen to them and take interest in learning.
Confidence Building
Primary kids are just learning to understand the school system, academics, and extracurricular or other activities of the school. They usually have low or no confidence, so it becomes the teacher’s responsibility to help them gain confidence.
Teachers of Tokyo School help children to know their potential, strength and weakness helping them improve in all areas. Good teachers should help children to believe in themselves and should teach them to stick at things (even if they are initially difficult) until they find success in them.
Passionate
Kids are natural enthusiasts, curious to learn new exciting things and it is the teacher’s way of teaching that excites children and makes them engaged.
Therefore, teachers should be passionate about their teaching profession (adopting new styles, experimenting with different things to keep it interesting). IIt will definitely improve the child’s learning rate.
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Sense of Humour
Handling Primary School kids requires teachers to have a good sense of humour as they will be able to control children’s moods better. Teacher’s mood also influences children, so happy go lucky, cheerful teachers will help children to be cheerful and active. Teachers who become friends, and make them laugh makes it easier for children to warm up to the environment.
Organised
Handling a lot of young children is not a cakewalk. Teachers with good organisation skills are able to handle things better. They are able to plan out the day better through learning lessons, activities, playtime, etc.
Know Your Pupils
A good teacher should know each student personally, they should know their student’s potential, their learning needs, interests, hobbies, etc. Knowing what they like and dislike will help to provide customised lessons. Interaction with all the children personally is necessary to make them feel connected.
Knowing when to use Summative and Formative Assessments
Summative assessment refers to an assessment that is taken at the end of the term or a year to understand the overall learnings of the students. Formative assessments are conducted daily to check students’ understanding of a certain topic.
These assessments help teachers to guide and adapt strategies to improve children’s learning and meet their needs.
Other Qualities of Tokyo School Teachers
- Effective classroom management
- Providing children with the opportunity to research and report, in short, inculcating enquiry based learning
- Positive Growth Mindset
4 Things Primary School Teachers Must Do
Resource
Teachers are the resource specialists, they need to answer students’ different queries, provide them with the right source of information and have to guide them on how to use that information. So the teacher must be ready to answer instantly and provide solutions to students’ problems.
Support
Children need support while learning new skills, so teachers must provide full support. They should encourage, motivate, guide them or be their coach, cheerleader or counsellor.
Mentor
One of the biggest roles a teacher has to play is that of the mentor. Students look up to them and learn a lot of things. So good teachers should model the right behaviours, lay good examples, follow good work ethics and should showcase a great personality.
Learner
One thing teachers should never forget is that they should upgrade their knowledge and learning regularly as there are always new trending things that keep coming and there is always something new to learn. A good teacher is the one that grows in life and will inspire students to do the same
In Conclusion
Tokyo School teachers are the driving force of the education system. They play many roles; they are the ones who interact with students and deal with the parents.
The relationship between teacher and student is a vital element of the learning experience. So while taking admission to any school, make sure to check if teachers possess these qualities as they can help your child in overall development.