The qualities that a teacher should have

I think that some of the most important qualities a teacher needs to have are sense of humour, self- confidence, sensitivity to learners as people, ability to build rapport, ability to be methodical. I believe that the most lovely one is the one that makes reference to sensitivity to learners as people, we should never forget that our students before being students are human beings, people, who have feelings and emotions.
It would be also interesting to take into account two more qualities, first the capacity to teach values to our students since we are educators who teach English. And the second one, I don’t know if it is a capacity or not, but anyway, I think we “teachers” should have the capacity to trust our students, to be always there, next to them walking along this path of learning, because if we do not trust them, how can we make them believe in themselves!

How do you feel when observing other teachers?

After having observed a couple of times, I think I feel confident enough to keep on doing it and learning from it! I strongly believe that through observations it is possible to learn a lot from others! It’s like wearing eye-glasses, what I see through them is not the same as what you may see wearing the same pair, since we all have different ‘views’ and so action focus. As regards the title I think that it describes very well the role that observers and the observed T have (being a kind of mirror that reflects or help you to see the action that takes place in the classroom more clearly). To me is interesting to see how other teachers behave in certain situations, and then think how I would have behaved if that problem would have taken place in my class.