Instructor Skills Analysis

While there are many ways to be an outstanding teacher, every high-quality teacher should, in my opinion, have these skills and dispositions:

I believe in order to be considered an outstanding teacher, you need to have diverse set of skills and abilities. An outstanding teacher needs to have many different qualities, because a teacher not only teaches, but serves as a role-model, mentor, and supporter. Teachers instill the love of learning in their students. Teachers need to be enthusiastic, patient, understanding, and organized. An outstanding teacher also needs to be able to work well with other, such as co-workers and administrators. Outstanding teachers need to be able to self-reflect in order to continue developing. They need to consistently develop new teaching strategies and techniques. They need to keep students engaged and enthusiastic about the subject they are teaching.

To be an outstanding educator you need to possess many important qualities. The qualities I believe are the most important are flexibility, creativity, and passion. The teachers I remember and relate to the most have those qualities. They are the areas that I believe I have strength in and the areas that will benefit my future students.

1. I consider myself an enthusiastic instructor; effective at providing quality instruction and fostering a positive and colorful learning environment for all students. I am mature and professional; who adapts to new situations and technologies with ease. Adept at lesson planning and classroom management, able to create fun learning stations for hands on learning. I have a huge passion for the arts, and enjoy spending a great deal of time on arts and crafts, teaching the students through coloring, and painting. Music is also a large part of my teaching; I love to teach my class using rhymes and songs to help grasp a concept or lesson.

Competencies and continuing education are requirements for nurses in every health care setting; however, the requirements vary per unit and setting (Wright, 2010). Competence is the as the ability to do something successfully or efficiently (Merriam-Webster.com, 2015). Nursing educators are limited in their time at the bedside; therefore requiring competencies for clinical instructors will increase the quality of education instructors are providing by measuring their clinical performance (Klein, 2006; Kring, Ramseur, & Parnell, 2013). Currently, no standards exist for identifying strengths and learning needs of clinical instructors and faculty (Davidson & Rourke, 2012). Without documented competencies, there is no way to determine which instructors are high performers compared with those who are not. Clinical instructors with subpar skills and antiquated techniques provide inadequate experiences for students.

In this self-assessment I will be writing an analyses of my skills during my in class mini interview evaluation. I will be focusing on the following: relationship, inform consent, micro-skills, and overall impression.

I demonstrated several skills from chapter three in the book Interviewing for Solution. The skills I demonstrated were summarizing, composing questions, the use of silence, natural empathy, complimenting, and getting details. While doing this process recording, I was not paying attention to the skills I was using. After watching the process recording, I was amazed that I had used so many skills. Additionally, most of skills came naturally.

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” There are so many different quality traits that separate a mediocre teacher from a great teacher. So who’s to decide what those specific traits are? Every student is different when it comes to learning. One may love a certain teacher, and another may not. All teachers have different teaching styles. Looking back at my favorite teachers from high school, I noticed that they all had similar characteristics that made them my favorites. However, they also had their own unique qualities that made them stand out as well. These teachers have not only taught me the required criteria for the class, but in fact made me a better individual. The three teachers, in which have made the biggest impact on my life are: Cassie Applegate, Jason Aker, and Eric Padget.

There are three distinct qualities that I believe all excellent teachers should possess these are, passion, collaboration, and adaptability.

What makes your instructor an ideal candidate for Teacher Fellows? Please describe the training, skills, attitude, effort or systems that make this person an effective educator and leader.

Share details in a lively way about your class instructor(s) and her/his experience by offering a human interest story of each instructor’s journey.

Characteristics of the learner that influence the skill acquisition consist of five different aspects of the learner. Examples are, the Personality traits such as the willingness to learn and take on constructive criticism. The Hereditary factors, such as your height and different body types, the confidences levels, which can strongly affect the rate of how the learner develops a new skill. Prior experience, if the learner has prior experience with help with the development of the new skill, having positive experiences with learning new skills, and then using that positive experience to develop more skills similar really helps for the rate of the development of the skill to go faster, aswell as someone who has natural ability to have certain aspects of developing a new skill such as, good hand eye co-ordination.

What is the best quality for any teacher to have? First of all, there are multiple qualities that can construct a teacher, but there are three main important characteristics such as the content the teacher teaches, how he or she makes learning easy and fun, and if you can connect with them easily. My current teacher, Mrs. Shanahan, fits all of these qualities. To begin, she taught history, and throughout nearly all of my life I disliked history, but still had a small spark of interest. Once I had met Mrs. Shanahan she turned that spark into a sky full of stars. She intrigued and fascinated me with all she was teaching. Rather, it was the start of America or the Progressive era, she had left an effect on me that helped me realize the importance

Class discussions were interesting because many of my peers discuss what their teachers did in high school and how we can make education better for our future students. On the first day of class, we discuss what makes a good teacher and what makes a bad teacher. Many characteristics we considered a good teacher are knowledgeable, caring, enthusiastic, insightful, and flexible. Characteristics that make a teacher bad are disrespectful, unorganized, unwilling, and lazy. Professor Walter provided numerous amount of insight in this course. She provided helpful tips about interviews and situations she had to go through herself as a teacher. Teachers have more

Teaching is a difficult occupation. Teachers play an important part in training children, teenagers… So, a good teacher must have some special qualities. They are: knowledge, creation, confidence, empathy, sense of humor and passion.