What are the qualities that make the best teachers?

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The question of the day: "What is a good teaching?"

Nelson Pollet's response:

The question seems simple.However, the answer is difficult to provide because, in terms of education-instruction, should I say, so as not to mix everything-everyone has his say.The proof, I bring my strawberry too, but it's the season ...

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What I mix

Simply because everyone is said in an enlightened way: "I too went to school!"I too have suffered teachers!I too have ideas to improve teaching! ”.As if there was a cause and consequence link between all these elements.

I happened to consult a doctor and that was never a sufficient reason for me to consider myself a graduate of medicine and even less specialist in a medical field.No reason justifies that I get the right to carry out consultations or that I allow myself to teach my doctor how to do it to examine a patient.

My answer does not pretend to be final-which pretentious would I be if that was my ambition.On the other hand, it is that of a person who has already asked himself the question during his life and whose conclusions are likely to interest the readership which likes to look into the subject.

Nothing is ever acquired

Mr. Jean-Noël Robert, professor of classic retirement letters, told me during an internship in Paris: "When one is a teacher, it is necessary to approach the exercise of his functions with humility because nothingis never acquired.And we always have a lot to learn in our discipline, just like the students.Although the professor can acquire methods and know-how to evolve constantly in the interest of students, he must never forget that nothing is ever acquired.A lesson can take place without incidents and overnight everything can derail because of fatigue, a lack of attention or anything else.The same goes for the effectiveness of his pedagogy according to the students: it is not because a way of explaining has worked on a pie that it will be the same on tartemolle.

Quelles sont les qualités qui font les meilleurs profs?

Furthermore, it seems to me that to teach it is important to be deeply human.This does not mean that the mother or the papa hen with his students.They already have their parents and it is not the role of the teacher.

On the other hand, this allows us to keep in mind that a teacher works with young people under construction and that it is imperative to consider them as such to forge around them a benevolent framework - in its true sense and not in that which'National Education has used and sali.Instead of saying: "Partempion does not know how to align three sentences but since he wrote his first name we will put a few points for him not to traumatize him", it is better to let the children try, fail, start again and, in the long term,succeed in achieving the objectives initially set.

Then, it is a question of transmitting solid knowledge without taking your students for fools, whatever their initial level in the subject that we teach.Personally, I was lucky to have teachers who did not take us for idiots and who always thought that with work we would be able to give the best.My old -fashioned Greek teacher already told us about Plato, for example, when we knew nothing about philosophy.I thank him deeply since I was one of the few not to fall from my chair when the philosopher was mentioned for the first time when I found myself studying this material in terminal.

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Speech on the method

It is essential to transmit solid knowledge with methods that are just as much.It is a shame to see and/or hear people responsible for training claim that it is not the method that matters.Of course yes.Any knowledge must be acquired with method to be used effectively.The method is not a way to curb the freedom of a student.It constitutes a road to follow - I invite you to consult the etymology of the word - to discover, retain and make their own the new knowledge to acquire.

Teaching well is also making concepts, ideas or all that is very complex to understand accessible.You have to be able to simplify them - Attention not to be confused with simple and simplistic.Pierre Hadot gave me this lesson through his Plotinus book or the simplicity of the gaze.

In 240 pages, the author managed to make me understand what he wanted to transmit about the philosophy of this neoplatonism theorist, so much so that when I wanted to immerse myself in the enneae, the book is meliterally fell from the hands as I did not realize the popularization work that had been done.A great lesson in popularization in its most noble expression.

To teach well is also to have the ability to always prick curiosity, to arouse envy and to transmit your intellectual appetite to all its students.Many of my teachers have known, and I can only thank them, give myself an inexhaustible hunger on subjects which sometimes did not inspire me.

The best job in the world

To close my answer, I would like to come back to a report that had moved me a lot about a teacher who was going to retire: this gentleman is a model of what the teaching can be - not to say thisthat he must be.

To summarize, a good teaching method is that which offers all the tools necessary for a person so that they can enjoy a deep emancipation while knowing a beautiful personal and cultural development in order to become someone'enlightened, whatever his life, his profession and his passions.

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