You’re not a teacher if you don’t know or do these teaching basics.

Who is a teacher? Every teacher teaches, but not all teaching is from a teacher. A teacher is a builder of a nation, a member of the profession which gives service to society in the closest, clearest and extreme way, and the most important factor of the educational system.

Informally, everyone is a teacher and the role of a teacher can be taken by anyone as long as one helps another to learn. Formally, a teacher is a person who is vetted and employed to instruct or help one or more students to acquire knowledge in literacy and numeracy, craftsmanship or vocational training, the arts, religion, civics, community roles, life skills, etc.

This article is intended to be short and to address the basic meaning of a teacher and what makes one a teacher. Though a teacher and a tutor have slight differences, we will be using the terms here as the same thing to mean a person who instructs, guides, or helps one or more students to learn, acquire knowledge, or competence.

Who is a teacher?

Referring to the second paragraph of this article, a teacher is not necessarily one that teaches in school only and this is why teaching is one of the highest demanded jobs across the world. To us at passbuttons, an online community that enables tutors, educational institutions, students, and their host communities to connect and share knowledge; a teacher is;

1. A person who helps students to acquire knowledge
2. A person who motivates encourages and inspires students to learn.
3. A person who shows a way
4. A person who leads and listens to his students
5. A person who instructs and guides his students on a subject or skill
6. A manager of instruction
7. A caring person
8. An expert learner
9. A cultural and civic person
10. A facilitator
11. A leader

If you are any of these, then you are a teacher. Meanwhile, every teacher requires competence in

1. Working with others
2. Working with knowledge, technology, and information, and
3. Working in and with society.

Teachers are great in society and that is why passbuttons connects tutors to nearby learners, educational institutions, and private lessons to teach any subject or skill. It also trains tutors on tutoring methodologies, practices, and principles, and supports and connects tutors to opportunities and jobs.

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Characteristics of a good tutor

A good tutor is not someone who provides classroom entertainment and gives very little or loads of homework. A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops. Therefore, his mission is to grow well his seeds to harvest better crops; so he has to help his students grow despite his challenges. A good tutor is someone who

1. Loves learning and imparting knowledge
2. Respect his students
3. Warm, accessible, enthusiastic, and caring motivates, inspires, encourages, and sets high expectations for all students
4. Is skilled in leadership
5. Is flexible
6. understand and can be understood
7. Questions and answers questions where and when necessary
8. Is Collaborative

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