What makes a good teacher?

If you are training to be a teacher, you will probably constantly be looking for ways to be the best teacher you can be. Teachers need a certain set of skills to be able to effectively teach pupils and gain their trust and respect. Often you need a quite different approach to teaching primary school children to that of secondary school. Reception teachers often teach very differently to those that teach year 6 but their training has been the same.
As a reception teacher, you may need to have more compassion and understanding. You will need to be very approachable and be able to explain things in simpler terms. Often it requires a lot of patience and understanding. You will need to be able to quickly change your method of teaching to fit in with the child you are talking too as children often start school with very varying degrees of ability when it comes to reading and writing. One child may be able to recognise letters and confidently count up to 20 where as another child may have no idea about numbers or letter. Being able to plan work to suit all abilities requires a bit more time.