The first lesson in “Principle of Effective Teaching and Assessment” remind me of my previous experience at school. It has been a year or so , that I have not thought about it. I met many type of teachers, some of them are highly sympathetic. Perhaps they are the best I had ever been taught by. My Junior High School English teacher was a persistent and also thoughtful person. He had special attention to student who did not have good score at his subject. He asked them to answer all the questions in every session, he would have explained in front of class refined their mistakes over and over, even gave them additional tasks until they made it well. I was the one who got his eyes on me. Surprisingly, he knit his brows to comprehend my English. Another favorite teacher of mine is my Mathematic teacher who has cheerful and fun personality. He had a passion on teaching, it encourage students pay more attention to him.
It’s not the words that matter so much as the way you say them. Effective teacher is the one who knows his students best. He prepared everything before entering the class, the teaching material, the teaching method, the assessment, even his appearance, supported by his love and passion to educate their pupils. He does so with pleasure he delivered the subject. He also treated his student fairly, without considering who they are. It goes without saying, that nobody is perfect, but one has to work really hard to be a teacher.
I agree with you that effective teacher should know his/her students well. that's why we should develop our relationship with them, like by much interactions. we can exercise ourselves from now, like by interacting with and try to understand many people, nat..