Describing good teachers: How should good English teachers be?
1. Introduction
When a person thinks about an English teacher, the image of a neat person in front of a classroom talking with an interesting accent and with a marker in her hand comes to most of our minds. There are many types of teachers that people have to deal with during our school life. Students tend to categorize them as good or bad teachers. Some students think that good teachers are the ones who create a good environment in the classroom, prepare interesting lessons, search for the appropriate materials for them; besides, they are funny, knowledgeable, flexible and comprehensible. So, this paper will discuss factors that determine teaching performance and the characteristics of good teachers.
Key words: teacher’s performance, teachers’ skills, being a good English teacher.
2. Teacher performance and skills
Being good teachers is not an easy task, because they need to integrate many factors to induce students in a successful learning process. Scrivener (2005:15-22) states that “a teacher is for helping learning to happen by using appropriate methodology, materials, activities in order to reach a goal”. Harmer (2001:64)
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Being in front of a group of people implies a lot of preparation to deal with different kinds of learners, being flexible, adapting activities according to students’ needs, designing different materials, planning a meaningful and pleasant lesson in order for learning to occur. Good teachers have to perform different roles such as model, monitor, guide, controller, assessor or tutor, during the lesson according to the situation. As a result, good teachers need to objectively control, motivate, evaluate, guide, respect, give acceptable information, to the students and make them know they are important in the learning process so that lead students to correctly communicate in English, not only in the classroom but outside of