THE TEACHER AND

THE LEARNER
PRESENTED BY:
JENALYN PEREZ
RUDY PRESADO JR.
WHAT IS TEACHER?

• A teacher is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge,

competence or virtue.
• A teacher not only teaches, but inspires and encourages students
to be their best. School is not only a place of academic learning,
but of social learning as well, and will have an effect on how
students interact with others in the future.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE
AND EFFICIENT TEACHER:

1. An effective teacher likes and enjoys teaching.

This means that the teacher is proud of her profession and that
she loves and enjoys her job
 2. She has the mastery of the subject matter.
A teacher cannot teach well if she has not mastered the lessons
she is teaching. This is based on the principle that a teacher cannot
give what she doesn’t have.
3. She has the necessary self-confidence and trust in what she can
do.
The teacher believes in herself, her capabilities that she can teach
well.
 4. She has the mastery of the methods and tools of teaching.
The teacher must know how to teach. She should be knowledgeable
of the different methods of teaching and how to use them
appropriately.
 5. She has the mastery of the medium of instruction and art of
communication.
The teacher should have a good command of the medium of
instruction and be able to skillfully formulate questions, explain
points of clarifications and knows how to react to student’s insights.
An effective teacher is one who motivates the children to speak
effectively.
 6. She should know how to develop her personality.
A teacher as a role model should know how to carry herself by
observing good grooming, with good taste and decency, maintain
neatness. She should possess virtues such as: patience, justness,
fairness, punctuality, broadmindedness as well as open-mindedness.
She should also have a wholesome sense of humor.
7. She should have a mastery of lesson planning and subject matter
organization.
Lesson plan serves as a guide and an integral part in the teaching
learning process. The teacher should be able to know how to
organize the activities to be undertaken by the pupils.
 8. She should be healthy.
If the teacher is healthy, she should assure effective teaching and
learning and produce mentally healthy student’s. As the saying goes
“HEALTH IS WEALTH”. Hence the teacher must be physically,
mentally, spiritually, and morally healthy.
 9. She should grow professionally.
A teacher should equip herself with knowledge through seminars,
training workshop and attend graduate studies. She should keep
herself abreast with researches and studies pertaining to her
discipline so that her pupils can get the most from her teaching.
 10. She should maintain harmonious relationship with her
colleagues, the non-teaching personnel, and administrators and
the community as a whole.
As the saying goes “NO MAN IS AN ISLAND”. A teacher cannot keep
herself in isolation because she has to work with the colleagus in all
of the activities that the school will undertake like curricular
planning, making revisions, meetings, etc..