What makes a good teacher great? | Azul Terronez | TEDxSantoDomingo

I've been asking the question: What makes a good teacher great? for 24 years. I have collected 26,000 responses from 8 different schools and patterns have emerged.

For the last 24 years, he has repeatedly asked students the same question, "What makes a good teacher great?" Azul Terronez is the author of the best-selling book "The art of Apprenticeship" Azul has coached teachers and schools leaders around the world in Spain, Chile, Canada, India, United States and China and he is currently serves as a teacher coach at Shanghai American School.

[MsInreality]

He was my seventh grade teacher. It was such an honor to be taught by this man. I work in education today as tribute to his legacy. He still inspires me to this day.

[wanzayu]

Good teachers will be remembered by students throughout their lives.

[jordanhamilton]

Im going into my first year of school to become a teacher, and already watching these kinds of videos because I want to be great.

[henrikemil]

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

[galaeducateya]

'Great teachers make themselves humble before their students' - Perhaps my favorite line from this great talk. I truly agree with all of your points, especially this one. Thank you very much for your inspiring work.

[artesiningart]

Some of my teachers were like psychologists, counselors, philosophers, jokers, performers beyond being teachers. I really enjoyed learning and learned to love learning in general from them. I learned to love biology, social studies, geometry, the arts, and other humanities altogether.

[cocao]

Good teachers seem genuinely interested in their subject and not just treating it as their job

[plerpplerp]

For students to care about what you know, they have to know that you care. This is my motto.

[hajermohamad]

A good teacher uses their smile muscles and smile when they Enter their Classroom . Smiling is like watering a plant in the middle of a desert 🌵

[carlosvillegas]

Great talk Azul, I'm an English teacher at a private school here in Mexico. If you don´t mind, I'm going to share with you a special moment that I had with a student. She was a very shy and a very emotional student. Once they were doing some exercises in their workbook, she came to me when she finished and told me that she didn't understand at all, she had tears in her eyes, I explained her again twice and she was crying saying that she didn´t understand, so I told her a little story, There was a fisherman who went fishing to the lake, he carried his fishing sticks and his bait, he also carried two buckets to put the fish in, He sat on the river bank and throw his fish line into the lake. He had his two buckets behind him to throw the fish back when he caught them but one still had the lid on, The river was full of fish and he was just throwing all fish back to the buckets, and I asked her, where do you think the fish landed? in the bucket with the lid on or the one without the lid? she said the one with the lid off, I asked her again? do you think that any fish could land in the bucket with the lid on? and she said no, then I said, that´s exactly what happens when you say that you can´t, that you don´t understand, that it´s hard, she went back to her chair, came back later and she did it right, I told her "I told you you could" and she said with tears in her eyes and smiling, "I know teacher, thank you for this lesson" She became a very self-sufficient student and made me feel very proud of her.

[claytonvancouver]

I think teachers showing vulnerability can have a huge, positive impact on students and encourage their own risk taking and creativity. The more we teachers "lift the veil" on our own learning, struggle and progress, the more connection we can establish with students. Excellent talk Azul. Thank you for doing this work.

[ChauHa]

I came back here to listen to this talk whenever I struggled with my teaching career. Thank you for such an inspiring talk

[JF]

This is a man who genuinely loves his students, and loves to teach.

[nicholehowell]

As a current student teacher, I got to spend time in a 2nd grade classroom. Being humble and continuing to learn was something that I always strived to show those students. When I made mistakes, they started telling me "It's ok!" because I would tell them the same thing! Kids love to learn when you show them love of learning, and that making mistakes is what learning is!

[asmahappy]

I'm a teacher, still watching videos like this and reading more about teaching and students just to be a Great teacher

[kimchungluong]

This is great. I wish I could send huge thanks to this man, I feel really inspired.
I often tell my students: "I may be wrong, I am expected to be wrong. You are expected to be better than me, because you are the next generation. If the next generation were not better than the last, how could mankind develop?"
When students notice a teacher's mistake, they very rarely point them out in class. They tend to either keep it to themselves or tell other students behind the teacher's back; and those mistakes would worsen the teacher's image. I'm still trying to figure out a way so that they can consider me a learning-pal instead of an educator.

[alecastrotv]

I am left with this phrase: "Kids want to be inspired by this idea that learning is important."

[englishwithmuzammal]

I still remember one teacher asking the same question when teaching the first class, and now I know why he did that; he wanted to know what teaching style the learners want, and it helped him be a great teacher of the year for his very first year of teaching. Isn't great? Such an amazing way of teaching!

[tahirshahPashtoon-bjeo]

As an English instructor at an English language centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, I am struggling to be a great and lovely teacher...
So, I searched how to be a benevolent and great teacher, then I found your exciting video from which I learnt and picked up so much, indeed.

[paulinamaj]

I just started my first year at University and I'm going to be an English teacher. Thank to this speech, I know the most important thing: I have to listen to the students.