Skills for a Good Teacher

Foreign language skills:

• Openness to new cultural contacts;
• Usefulness;
• Pleasure of learning;
• Communication means.

Skills in creating a learning environment:

• Decreasing of social distance;
• Rooms, lights, furniture;
• Availability and purpose of teaching aids;
• Favourable cooperation in a group.

A holistic perception of learning:

• Ability to analyse;
• Ability to generalise;
• Creativity;
• Ability to learn;
• Knowledge.

Skills in perceiving what is essential:

• Assertiveness;
• Ability to analyse;
• Ability to synthesise;
• Broadness of outlook;
• Ability to observe.

Skills in defining aims and choosing means:

• Perceiving learning as a whole;
• Mastering a subject;
• Adequate perception;
• Proper means of expression;
• Ability to learn;
• Creativity.

Skills in assessment and evaluation:

• Planning;
• Creating connections, comparisons;
• Feedback;
• Analysing information.

Skills in using technology:

• Don’t be afraid of machines;
• Learn.

Skills in adequate perception:

• Tolerance;
• Empathy;
• Social and communicative skills;
• Reflection;
• Ability to analyse.

Skills in leading group processes:

• Proper methods;
• Communication skills;
• Reflective skills;
• Expressive skills;
• Ability to analyse and synthesise.

Motivation skills:

• Praising skills;
• Ability to use theory;
• Attractiveness;
• Models;
• Skills in setting targets;
• Humanity.

Expressive skills:

• Vocabulary;
• Style;
• Flair for acting;
• Nice, legible handwriting;
• Creative writing;
• Developing orthography;
• Rhetorical skills.

Self-regulatory skills:

• Physical, intellectual, mental;
• Self-control;
• Cooperation, partnership.