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Ideal Teacher

1. An ideal teacher connects to children as human beings. He/she knows each

child intimately and extends a relationship to children beyond the task of

teaching and learning even when classrooms are overcrowded. A culture of
respect, collaboration and acceptance is fostered for all children;

2. An ideal teacher is a role model and he/she subscribes to a pedagogy of care
(Nodding, 1988) because the emotional, physical and social well-being of

children a primary concern (in line with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) before
successful teaching and learning is possible;

An Ideal teacher that is needed in the school, is one

that understands that learners are human beings before they are pupils and this
means that having a teacher that acknowledges that learners, feel, have emotions

and are not detached from the dynamics that comes with being human and this
would need a teacher that is caring and is open to listening to learners emotional,

spiritual and physical health as well as what is happening in their lives. This would

help a great deal to let learners open up and feel safe at school knowing that they
have someone to talk to and get advice from, when things become difficult because

then what happens is that you find learners behaviour changing because they are

going through a bit of a stressful situation but feel like they are alone in that situation