“Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” Oscar Wilde

WHAT IS A TEACHER?The mediocre teacher tells

The good teacher explains

The superior teacher demonstrates

The great teacher inspires

William Arthur Ward

THE FOUNDATION INTEGRITY Students will assume you have it But it must be demonstrated “Integrity without knowledge is weak and

useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson

EXPERTISE You have years of education And 2 or 3 degrees And a title

THE SKILLSPreparation & OrganizationStructure Have rules But not too many Have reasons for the rules It does not matter if the students agree with

your rules It does matter that you explain your reasons for

the rules And that you apply them consistently and fairly

Post grades Promptly

THE INTANGIBLESSTORYTELLER Having knowledge but lacking the power to

express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” Pericles

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” Hannah Arendt

ARTIST “I have come to believe that a great teacher

is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” John Steinbeck

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” Anatole France

TRUSTED MENTOR “Teachers are people

who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” Max Forman

TRUSTED MENTOR “Teachers are people

who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” Max Forman

MYSTIC"The mind is not a vessel to be filled,

but a fire to be ignited." Plutarch“I'm not a teacher, but an

awakener.”Robert Frost