Characteristics of Effective Educator

There are 5 keys elements that I have adopted from my training and my teaching experience. It is an acronym that I have found to encapsulate my ideas about what an effective educator/teacher should embody.

 It is TEACH. The T stands for tenacious, which I think you must be as a future educator. You must be determined and persistent in your drive to be the best you can be so that your students can follow your lead in and out of the classroom.

The E stands for Excited by growth, which you must possess if are working along side students. Their growth and successes must be the energy that we feed off as teachers.

The A stands for Agile, which should be applied daily in your approach to teaching. Every day will not be as planned or work out perfectly, so we must be able to adapt quickly to an ever changing classroom of different situations and people.

The C stands for Centered on students, which is why we are in this profession in the first place. Our jobs are about the students inside our classrooms and everything we do should be for their benefit, as we are responsible for shaping and nurturing of their futures endeavors and educational successes.

The H stands for Hopeful, which is how we should approach every day, situation, lesson and student. We should remain positive and hopeful that we as teachers can have a real impact on every student we get an opportunity to be in contact with. We are put in a unique position to possibly have an impact on not just a student in a classroom but an entire school, neighborhood and nation.