A Good Teacher

A good teacher...
is a person who can effectively teach and guide the students to a greater understanding of the curriculum. The word guide is important because a good teacher should not always pour information into the students' minds. Sometimes they need to discover their learning on their own.
A good teacher...
is a person who wants her students to succeed in the class, in school and in life, meaning that the curriculum is not the only thing that the students leave the class knowing.

A good teacher...

will make a curriculum that takes the students into consideration and will also make the students active participants in creating lessons, to an extent. 
A good teacher...
is one who provides a consistent moral and ethical model for her class. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the teacher should be a good role model for her students.
A good teacher...
should encourage interactions among students so that everyone can help each other grow through mutual enhancement. 
A good teacher...
should value the students ideas and opinions as a valuable part of the learning process. Each student should be given opportunities to explain, examine and expand on what they think about the subject material. 
A good teacher...
should encourage the students to present these ideas to her and to their classmates in order to build up their confidence in their own voice. This can increase the students interest and want them to further their education in the subject and in other fields if they feel confident in their own abilities.


Revised T2P
If a student is to succeed in the classroom, then they will need to be need to be encouraged to express their ideas and opinions externally. This way, the student is able to get feedback from peers and the teacher about how to improve and also, the student's ideas could help others improve their own learning. If the environment of the classroom is created in an open fashion, the students will not be forced to participate, but they will begin to feel more comfortable contributing once they receive positive reinforcement. 


If a class or a student is to reach their whole-person optimal learning, then it falls to the teacher to help the students believe that their voice is valuable and can be used to influence the learning environment because if students can use their voice critically in school, then they will be able to take this out into the world and have the confidence to speak up when needed or desired. Having the students engaged in the learning environment will also allow them to think about what they are interested in and develop stronger ideas as they explore these interests more. Being able to affect change  in the lessons will increase their overall confidence in themselves to have their needs and interests met throughout their lives.