My image of a good teacher has been influenced by my favorite teachers from Kindergarten through high school and my experiences as an elementary education major at Appalachian State. I would be happy to develop or have just half of these characteristics in myself.
My “good teacher” would be:
-involved in the school outside of the classroom and/or involved in the community.
-strict but caring
-uses lots of relevant hands-on activities
-not afraid to act or look silly/funny at times
-the teacher that students will describe as “She’s tough, but she’s good.”
-not afraid to get messy or let the kids get messy
-gets the students involved in the community, or even the global community
The images in the Phillips and Carr book are difficult to see and read the labels for each part, but I can agree with what I can read. A teacher should be passionate, organized, and a good listener to start off. Most of the pictures had some type of art (music notes, art palette, etc) in their pictures. I think that goes along with my hands-on activities and getting messy at times. I especially liked the picture of the split person, showing that teachers can be men or women. A lot of the time, when someone talks about a teacher in general, they use the female pronoun.
As I was thinking about a “good teacher”, I am surprised to discover that I did not consider class action research at all in my definition. I did not include any words that conveyed the idea of investigating and making the classroom better. I just did not think of those ideas when making my list. I would add research to the list of characteristics that I have above.
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