Qualities of a good Teacher

Creative and inspirational teachers motivate their students to learn by using their personal qualities, their positive experiences and their excellent communication skills. They know that knowledge is one of our main purposes in life. Qualities for a good teacher are like these: A good teacher should know their subject and make the lesson interesting. A good teacher should be a good listener too. A good teacher should give boundaries and be firm and fair. A good teacher should be able to install confidence in their class. A good teacher will be able to make his class feel ease. A good teacher will remain calm.

Point-wise, the qualities of a good teacher can be summarized as:

1. Empathy: To be a good teacher, you have the ability to bond with your students, to understand and resonate with their feelings and emotions, to communicate on their level, to be compassionate with them when they are down and to celebrate with them when they are up.
2. Positive Mental Attitude: To be a good teacher, you should be able to think more on the positive and a little less on the negative. You should be able to keep a smile on your face when things get tough, to see bright side of things, to seek to find the positives in every negative situation and to be philosophical.
3. Open to Change: To be a good teacher, you should be able to acknowledge that the only real constant in life is change. You should know there is a place for tradition but there is also a place for new ways, new ideas, new systems and new approaches. You should not put obstacles in your way by being blinkered and should be always willing to listen to others' ideas.
4. Role Model: You should be the window through which many young people will see their future. You should be fine role model.
5. Creative: You should be able to motivate your students by using creative and inspirational methods of teaching. You should be different in your approach and that makes you stand out from the crowd. This is be the reason why students enjoy your classes and seek you out for new ideas. 
6. Sense of Humor: You should know that a great sense of humor reduces barriers and lightens the atmosphere especially during heavy periods. An ability to make your students laugh will carry you far and gain you more respect. It also increases your popularity.
7. Presentation skills: You should know that your students are visual, auditory or kin aesthetic learners. You should adapt at creating presentation styles for all three. Your body language is your main communicator and you should keep it positive at all times. Like a great narrator you should be passionate when you speak. But at the same time you should also know that discussion and not lecturing stimulates greater feedback.
8. Calmness: You should know that aggression negative attitudes and behaviors that you see in some of your students have a root cause. You should know that they are really scared young people who have come through some bad experiences in life. This keeps you calm and in control of you, of them and the situation. You should be good at helping your students' distress.
9. Respectful: You should know that no one is more important in the world than anyone else. You should know that everyone has a equal place in the world. You should respect your peers and your students. Having that respect for others gets you the respect back from others.
10. Inspirational: You should know that you can change a young person's life by helping them to realize their potential, helping them to grow, helping them to find their talents skills and abilities.
11. Passion: You should be passionate about what you do. Teaching young people is your true vocation of life. Your purpose in life should be to make a difference.
12. Process oriented: You should be able to set practical, achievable and tractable goals for your students. You should value the use of structure in what you do.
13. Willing to learn: You should be willing to learn from other teachers and your students. Although knowledgeable in your subject, you should know that you never stop learning.
14. Acknowledge the best to teach and learn: You should know that students learn best when they are involved in the experience. You should know that talking with them rather than at them produce the results.