When we reflected upon the teachers we have had, we appreciated these qualities in the teachers we considered to be the best ones we had. These qualities now serve as examples for us in being most effective in our teaching.
- Motivated students to accept and apply new truths
- Honesty
- Humor
- Personal interest in students
- Making students feel special
- Knew subject well
- Challenge to go beyond normal effort
- Created desire to do one’s best
- Protected self-respect of students
- Approachable, if one had a problem
- Encouraging to students at all times
- Used simple pictures and stories to illustrate subject
- Loved the students
- Took time to listen
- Spent time with students outside of class
- Dedicated and totally committed to teaching
- Thoroughly prepared
- Clear purpose
- Led student’s mind through problems
- Required participation
- Willing to ask students for forgiveness when wrong
- Plenty of review
- Commanded respect
- Personal experience in subject
- Taught with authority and boldness
- His word penetrated spirit man
- Deeply loved what he was teaching
- Gave homework that caused us to search the Scriptures for ourselves
- Patient
- Tailored teaching to students’ strength and weaknesses
- Gentle but strong
- Without words, drew extra effort from students
- Creative in using methods
- Love in actions
- Gave revelation knowledge that changed my life
