The Characteristics of a good and an Effective Teacher

Abstract

t No one can deny that teachers play a fundamental role in the lives of their students. Nothing can be compared with their influence on the students‟ academic performance by providing them with both knowledge and skills. Therefore, this research work attempted to examine some of the teachers‟ personal and professional traits, their processes, and instructional strategies that they use and follow to lead teaching effectiveness and students‟ success, in addition to their positive impact on students‟ achievements. The central objectives of this research are to get significant answers to the questions of our study; accordingly, this research used a methodology that allowed gathering information using the mixed method approach. The data resulted from this study is related to what researchers pointed out and demonstrated and how students actually think of those educators. To answer the mentioned questions, a useful organized questionnaire was developed to explore master 1 English student‟s expectations on the subject matter. We deduced that students have different perceptions regarding the field of teaching efficacy. Nevertheless, the majority of them agreed with the importance of the effectiveness of teachers in the classroom and demonstrated that a lot of intelligent educators can make them brilliant just by following the right dimensions of competence. Ultimately, based on the findings of the present study and the reviewed literature, many recommendations and suggestions were made