Teacher... How many feelings, emotions, thoughts in this word. Who is a teacher?! It is first and foremost a person. A person who leads him into the world of knowledge, who understands the vulnerable soul of a child.

The teaching profession is one of the most respected, honorable and responsible. And today it is also the most difficult. We can say that the teacher creates the future with his own hands, since the formation of beliefs, worldview, moral qualities of the younger generation depends on his work. The success of pedagogical activity lies in the skill of the teacher, that is, in the high and constantly improved art of education and training, accessible to every teacher who works by vocation and loves children.

In the age of modern technology, it is impossible to achieve success without the use of qualitatively new technologies, primarily a computer. “Do not wait, but act!” - this motto has become the basis of the reality of those teachers who realistically assess the task of the day, introducing the experience of computerization of the process of education of students.

I can proudly say that our school has truly knowledgeable teachers. Their life does not stand still, they are constantly in a creative search, because they have a perpetual motion machine-children. I was lucky to meet such a person.

I looked at her

She walked through the classroom in silence.

And I thought something

And the class froze all in anticipation ....

My favorite teacher…. I write these lines with bated breath. The image of a soft, kind-hearted, self-possessed woman comes to mind. When she entered the classroom, everyone froze, froze not from fear, but from respect and admiration. Short in stature, with slicked back hair and a light step. Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ilyicheva is a teacher with a capital letter. She has her own unique trait, the way of learning, character and attitude towards people. For her, work is a calling. She gave invaluable knowledge, taught us to treat everything that surrounds us in a different way.

I often see home

Comes from school in the evening

And as always, your briefcase

Carries with children's notebooks.

I often see the light in her window

When she, bending over notebooks,

Won't think about himself

And forget about the awards.

In her mathematics lessons, students enjoyed receiving valuable knowledge, did not skip classes and were not naughty. And she managed to achieve all this with the help of only one means - the word. This is not possible for everyone and not always.

I am sure that all the students who have ever studied with her love, remember and respect this wonderful and sincere person. And I can only thank fate That such a teacher met on my way.

Today I am the teacher. But she is the role model. For me, she is the hero of M. Gorky's story - Danko. giving her heart to her children. She lived their successes, failures. Helped in difficult times both in word and deed. And I would like my students to remember me with the same quivering feeling.

Teaching is one of the most sought after professions. It is necessary regardless of geographical location, type of political system, fashion trends. Once upon a time, when labor was not divided into certain professions, only the most senior and experienced members of the tribes became teachers. With the development of society, representatives of this profession began to practice special skills. Thus, the work of a teacher has become a craft.

The relevance of the teacher's work

The concept of who a teacher is appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century. In the modern world, this profession is becoming increasingly important due to scientific and technological progress. Teachers accompany each child almost from infancy. And the rhythm of life of a modern person is so high and intense that one has to study throughout one's life - not excluding the retirement age.

How did the profession originate?

About who such a teacher has been known since the time of Confucius. The philosopher in his writings wrote that teachers should pass on knowledge from generation to generation. A significant breakthrough in the development of this profession was made in the days of ancient Greece. For the first time, the first educational institutions appeared here. These were boarding houses, schools, lyceums. Often the ancient Greek philosophers themselves acted as teachers in their own schools. Since the Middle Ages, education has become mandatory for every clergyman and ruler. Then education gradually began to acquire a mass character. Almost all representatives of the upper strata of the population began to study. Education has also become available to women. Special closed institutions were created for them.

Definition

The most precise definition of this profession was given in Ozhegov's dictionary: "A teacher is a person who teaches something." Dictionary D. N. Ushakov defines the representatives of this craft as those who are "engaged in teaching a subject in a lower or secondary school." According to the small academic dictionary of the Russian language, a teacher is one who teaches a subject within the walls of a school, or one who instructs and instructs others.

What should a teacher be like?

Anyone who thought about who a teacher is could discover in practice one important pattern: in addition to a thorough knowledge of the subject being taught, a successful and effective representative of this profession must have excellent communication skills. If he does not know how to communicate with his audience - whether they are first-graders or students preparing to enter graduate school - the value of his knowledge will tend to zero. After all, he will not be able to convey them - which means that students will not be able to assimilate and apply them in practice.

In addition, a good teacher must have great patience, the ability to respect the personality of the student. Who is a teacher, if not the one who managed to find an individual approach to the student, allowing him to most effectively learn the necessary amount of knowledge? Therefore, a good teacher is not only the author of scientific works, who has all the necessary diplomas. This is also a subtle psychologist who knows how to convey knowledge to a particular student.

There are different definitions of what a teacher means. However, we can say for sure - this profession is creative, and it has both positive and negative sides. In addition to the creative element, the work of a teacher is not without routine. After all, it is he who has to constantly draw up curricula, check homework. To be a successful representative of his profession, he needs to carefully perform all this routine work. The teacher, in addition to the main element of his work - teaching - has many other responsibilities.

Who does the teacher work with?

A professional teacher must also be a strong-willed, restrained person. After all, he has to work with one of the most difficult age groups - teenagers. With regard to students in this category, not only attention is needed, but also the ability to maintain discipline. The educational process should not be disturbed due to the distraction of students to gadgets, communication, games. As for working with older students, as a rule, there are much fewer problems with them, because they are past puberty, and professional self-determination comes to the fore. However, in working with young men, the teacher must also show attentiveness, perseverance, and the ability to qualitatively organize the educational process.

Who is a teacher: description

What other things does a teacher do besides teaching? His responsibilities usually include the following:

• Drawing up a training plan.
• Preparation for lessons, preparation of lesson plans.
• Selection of the most effective teaching methods.
• Work on the preparation of various official documents: letters of recommendation, descriptions, characteristics, etc.
• Controlling student behavior.
• Self-education. Every member of this profession must learn throughout his life.

Requirements for teachers

The first thing every good teacher should have is excellent knowledge of their subject area. The teacher must be able to know a lot, and at the same time constantly develop. He must also be flexible and able to make quick decisions under stressful conditions. The teacher must also love children, find a common language not only with students, but also with their parents. The essential qualities of a good teacher are a good memory, intelligence, and attention to detail.

Profession "teacher": all the pros and cons

The benefits of this job typically include:

• Flexible work schedule. Usually, the teacher's working day ends by three o'clock in the afternoon, while office workers are forced to endure the onset of the cherished 18:00.
• Long holidays, holidays. The teacher, as a rule, goes on vacation with his students.
• An interesting job that involves various types of activity: today the teacher is preparing a seminar, tomorrow he is holding competitions among students, the day after tomorrow - a holiday. Many of the teachers say that the work of a vocation is the only thing that keeps them in the profession despite all the difficulties.
• Respect in society, the importance of the profession. Despite the fact that all professions are important for society, it is still customary to show special respect for teachers.
• Opportunity to work with tutoring.

But despite the numerous advantages of the teaching profession, it also has disadvantages:

• The need to constantly comply with educational standards and norms, to master new programs.
• Additional load in the form of work at home - checking homework, preparing for lessons.
• As a rule, work in a women's team.
• Lack of career growth prospects.
• Low salary.

A good teacher is perhaps the main feature by which we define a school. But what a good teacher should be, sometimes it is not easy to answer even to yourself. A good teacher can be different: an elderly lady with a kind heart, and a fidgety university graduate, but he must be a person in his place. Competent, mentally adequate and able to transfer knowledge to the student. "Mel" has collected 12 signs, as it seems to us, of a good teacher. Not that all of them are mandatory, but usually a good teacher knows all or almost all of this in practice.

For those who are preparing for the main school exam

1. A good teacher asks questions often and knows how to listen to answers.

This is an absolutely universal skill that highlights many aspects of teaching at once. A good teacher does not ask students stupid questions that do not need answers (“Petrov, why are you under the desk? Tear you out, or what?”). He does not ask intimidatingly difficult or formal questions that make the blood run cold (instead of such questions, he can use requests. For example: “ Prove the Riemann hypothesis". Smile).

A good teacher asks questions often, one might say, they are his main tool. And his questions always arouse greater or lesser interest, at least among some of the students. These can be slightly leading questions or such questions that, as it were, open up before the students a view of the further educational “road”. His questions simply cannot remain without an attempt to answer, at least mentally.

2. All students in a good teacher's class are people.

It would be superfluous to remind that a good teacher does not humiliate students with physical punishment, bullying, scolding, does not troll them, does not incite one part of the class to another. These are the basics. But a genuine such teacher also knows how to treat normally those who for some reason do not like his subject. And he knows how to give a fitting rebuff to students who are trying to fight him for power in the classroom or to mock him.

Even if the student is a real enemy whose goal is to suppress and humiliate the teacher, a good teacher will not use his methods in the fight against him. Because where, again, will such a psychopathic student learn other methods of interaction if the teacher does not give him an example?

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

3. A good teacher uses the properties of his temperament to the benefit of the case.

We know that he can be a man with nerves of steel and an icy eye. And he can be a fidgety bastard and a caustic wit. And maybe a sedate lady with a slow mind and a kind heart. Or a young blushing girl. Absent-minded autistic professor, peppy crowd entertainer ... Anyone.

One thing is important. Whatever a good teacher in his psychophysiology, he always falls into his own plate. He makes for himself such a world in which he looks appropriate and natural and where the range of his normal reactions and emotions works in a plus. In the classroom of such a teacher, students tune in to “his” atmosphere. They calm down, but do not slow down, but better absorb the material, it “wakes them up” and even makes them laugh, but they are not naughty and, again, absorb the material better. Silence? Better concentration. Violent controversy? The search for truth.

Not a very good teacher, his temperament can interfere, and he easily burns out. The character of such a teacher always “clings” a little, touches the educational process. On the contrary, the character of a good teacher is always clearly inscribed in the work, it serves as a lubricant for it, so a good teacher does not burn out so quickly. And all because he is realistic about himself and does not try to look better or remake schoolchildren.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

4. A good teacher is an honest, noble person

Well, with children and especially teenagers, there is no other way. It must be said that in the modern Russian school it is sometimes difficult to remain honest and noble. But, as practice shows, it is possible. And there are people like that in our schools. Please breathe, dear teachers!

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

5. A good teacher has some kind of life, except for school-subject

For example, he loves modern art-house cinema or teaches at the university… Or all of these at once. Of course, there are among good teachers those who live exclusively for the school. But let's look at the matter from the other side: such teachers, as a rule, arrange for themselves a varied and complex life in the school itself. Lead some kind of circle or theater. Go skiing with students. That is, a school for them is not only a school, and this is a suitable version of the same “to have a different life, except for the subject and class.”

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

6. A good teacher has a sense of humor

No, we are not about to joke and joke, to poison stories and suck up to children. Humor is a synonym for the concept of "adequacy to the state of the environment." That is, a sense of humor in a broad sense is the ability to manage a situation or adapt flexibly to it, look at it broadly, extract unexpected meanings. Sometimes, why not, these meanings are funny.

Dancing is known to be the best prevention of insanity, as the dance requires a lot of urgent little movements in order to adjust to the partner. The brain works very intensively as a result. The work of a good teacher in the classroom is also such a dance, only he has a couple of dozen or more partners.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

7. A good teacher is an adult

Whatever, but an adult, already mature. A good teacher is not equal to his students, even if their age difference is several years. He is qualitatively older. This is manifested in his ability to take responsibility for the momentary situation in the classroom, and in the case of elementary school - for the long-term atmosphere in it.

He may get angry, even break loose, may not hold back laughter or other "inappropriate" manifestations. But what definitely never happens is situations of his impotence. He chooses his reactions, and not the students provoke him to them. In the presence of a good teacher, there are no informal class leaders, there is only one leader - himself.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

8. A good teacher knows how to transfer knowledge along with emotions.

It is assumed that he has this knowledge and these emotions, that is, a good teacher knows and loves his subject. The information itself has no special value and is not remembered. Physics will have to fall in love first, and only then learn. To be able to convey emotions, you need to have empathy, to be able to give out this information “in the language” of the listener.

In general, this point is probably the most important. This is the essence of what a good teacher does in the classroom: fall in love with his subject. Of course, not everyone, although it also happens that, as a result, the whole class is rushing to enter the biological faculty and medical science. The contrast between the enthusiasm of one teacher and the boring serving of a lesson from others is too great. And in any case, even those who “do not like biology”, if the biologist is a good teacher, listen to him with pleasure, which means they will learn at least something.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

9. A good teacher is a survivalist in the school environment.

School is a place where everything is done slowly and wrong. The efficiency of teaching and learning at school is low, the teacher is littered with a pile of papers, the kids, colleagues and bosses get it, the pay is low - it seems like it’s not up to ideals. Our mythical hero knows how to maneuver between all these pitfalls, achieving some kind of effectiveness of his lessons. He does not despair and does not believe that he can do nothing. He does not merge borders, uses diplomacy, saves his space and time. He knows from experience: even from such rubbish as a modern school, something good can grow. And grow as best he can.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

10. A good teacher is not burned out

Everyone has the danger of burnout, but the main character of this text has an instinct for self-preservation, which, with all the devotion to the profession, will not allow him to wear out to zero. It happens that a good teacher for some time enters the first and even the second stage of burnout (fatigue, apathy, emptiness), but always finds a way to replenish his strength and not reach the terrible irreversible stage number three, at which all students will forever seem like idiots, bastards and enemies. And point five helps a good teacher to replenish his strength - about a different life outside of school. Well, the ninth point is the ability to maneuver and give yourself a break. Otherwise, he will not survive.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

11. A good teacher is smart in a way

It is important that in some sense. He doesn't have to be an intellectual. He may even be intellectually inferior to his students. Probably, it is important not to be limited, that is, to understand with any amount of mind that there is still a lot, very much, beyond the understanding of the teacher. And it is desirable to want to go there with your students. Or at least not prevent them from doing this path themselves.

There are good teachers of very modest abilities who absolutely lack the stars from the sky and are well aware of this. Stars grab their students.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

12. A good teacher does not think only in terms of school categories.

A good teacher will not assume that three years of a teenager's life should be completely devoted to preparing for the exam. He is calm about formalities, which are so many in school life. He understands that there can be many reasons for not wanting to learn. And not all of them are subject to immediate eradication. Accepts that not all students must necessarily love the school, his subject and him personally.

He distinguishes malicious mess from the working mess, disturbing noise from the working rumble. In general, he slows down a lot, otherwise he will not hold out and not focus on the main thing. He does not pull the children over trifles and does not pull on them himself.

Frame from the film "Teacher", 2013

We live in an amazing time: the world around us is changing very quickly almost beyond recognition. Therefore, a teacher working with the younger generation must be prepared to:

• Change. This is the most difficult, but necessary condition for the existence of a full-fledged personality.
• Admit your mistakes. Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes. The teacher is definitely not one of them.
• Develop. If earlier the picture of the world did not change over the course of several generations, now everything is developing so rapidly that, as the Black Queen said in Alice Through the Looking-Glass, in order to stay in place, you need to “run as fast as you can”.

The teacher must also understand how modern students live. You can not love Face or Ivangai, but not knowing who these people are means falling behind life.

In addition, the teacher should remember that modern children are different. They live in, they do not have a cult of an adult. These are the qualities that a modern teacher should have in order to be useful and enjoy the results of his work.

1. Respect for children

Usually they say: "A teacher must love children." But such a formulation is too abstract and inevitably becomes an occasion for speculation. Love is very multifaceted. This is both connivance, and, conversely, drill (“Beats - it means loves”). Unclear. But with respect, everything is much easier.

Respecting a student means seeing him as a subject, not a blank slate.

2. Tolerance

All people are different. Sometimes a person irritates us just because he is different: he put on his cap in the wrong way, looks the wrong way. But is it worth paying attention to this if he behaves naturally and does not violate the norms of morality? The same can be said about the right of a person to his own opinion.

If we are talking about questions that cannot be given the only correct answer, then one should not immediately dismiss original and unexpected proposals. They may be more suitable than the standard ones. Children are not as spoiled as adults and can think freely.

Recognize the student's right to be different. And maybe you will raise a new Einstein.

3. Understanding that the teacher is providing a service

For some reason, this point is most outraged by teachers and many parents. Maybe it's about authority. The teacher - it sounds proudly, and the services are provided by hairdressers and movers. It's undignified!

4. Willingness to gain credibility with real things

It's useless to scare. Today's children do not experience fear of what people who survived the "scoop" are afraid of.

5. Sense of Boundary

This applies to both psychological boundaries (“do not climb into the soul”), and one’s own knowledge. After all, children are more competent than teachers in some areas.

6. Understanding your mission

The teacher should only give useful knowledge that cannot be simply googled (and if you can, then the teacher is most likely wasting time).

7. Self-criticism

If the teacher analyzes his activity and thinks about how to make it better, he will achieve a lot. Everyone is wrong. Including cool adult uncles and aunts. And the sooner children realize this, the better.

8. Self-irony

The ability to be frivolous and make jokes about yourself is a necessary component of what is called stress tolerance. And just excellent quality for life in .

Self-irony allows you to defuse the situation, get distracted and move on to solving complex issues.

Of course, all this is difficult to achieve in conditions where pennies are allocated for education. Unfortunately, schools often have no choice, and they are forced to take whoever they have to. Nevertheless, one should strive for the ideal.

What do you think? What should be a modern teacher? Write in the comments.

The profession of a teacher is a special one. This profession is chosen, rather, at the call of the heart.

After all, a teacher is not just a specialist in teaching a scientific discipline, he is also a leader, mentor and educator.

How to become a teacher and what you should be prepared for.

How to become a teacher

If you decide to become a teacher, then there are several ways to realize your dream:

1. It is enough for a primary school teacher to graduate from a pedagogical lyceum or college. To teach in middle and high school, you need to graduate from a pedagogical institute.

2. Graduate from a university in one of the disciplines. In Russia, any university graduate has the right to teach at school.

3. Graduate from a pedagogical college, start working as an elementary school teacher, while simultaneously studying at the correspondence department of the university. After receiving higher education, you can go to work in high school.

Become a teacher of senior or junior classes? There is no clear answer here. The choice is up to you. The same applies to the choice of discipline: it is impossible to become a good teacher if you teach a subject that you are not interested in.

Work as a teacher at school: features of the profession

The most stringent requirements are always imposed on the teacher. Still would! After all, the object of pedagogical activity is a child, a Personality! And it depends on the teachers how good a Person and Personality this child will become.

You can endlessly list the character traits that a teacher should have: morality, kindness, humanism and endless faith in people, no matter how utopian it may sound. We have already mentioned endurance and patience. I would also like to add about creativity, and about the ability to work in a team and with a team.

But with a career is more difficult. In general, the phrase "teacher's career" is not quite familiar to the Russian language. The whole career today so far consists in improving one's skills, participation and victories in competitions, the Olympics. Becoming a school principal or head teacher is a completely different song. These positions involve administrative activities, so you will have to forget about pedagogy.

Another step is the transition from a regular school to a private one. After all, a career involves not only personal growth, but also wage growth. In a private school they pay more, but the requirements for applicants are much higher.

Profession teacher: pros and cons

Pros:

• Creative work, giving the opportunity to realize their creative potential.
• Part-time work and a guaranteed two-month vacation in the summer.
• Working with children is energizing.
• Opportunity to work as a tutor.

Minuses:

The repetition of the same thing year after year is boring, unless you nurture your skills and look for new methods and techniques.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that, with all its negative aspects, a teacher is a multifaceted, respected and highly demanded profession.