Quality of a good teacher

Being a teacher is challenging. There are many different roles that I need to play well. E.g. To be a good role model, to be able to have content mastery, to be a good mentor, to be a good public speaker and to be able to pronunciate all words properly plus the ability to reflect and rethink about our own train of thoughts to be a professional practitioner so as to improve on the processes of teaching and our own heuristics of teaching.

Therefore, to sum up, being a teacher encompasses many different roles and requires us to have good skill sets to be able to succeed in this line.

Purpose of Teaching: I just want to remind myself that God has called me into teaching because he this is my calling. This is the place that God want to give me to open a door to influence young minds and to allow them to be Christ like.
My own fears of teaching:

Firstly, I think i do not warm up to people that easily, so the first few classes i might need it to warm up to the class. Generally, i hope that my sincerity and my desire to teach the students the processes of thinking and the desire to infuse knowledge and values would put me on my best foot forward.

Secondly, Public speaking is still not my forte, and i might get cold feet from time to time. This is link to the first factor i realize. If i perceived the environment to be hostile, generally i can feel adrenaline running high. However, if i think that it is a friendly environment, it is easy to be myself and deliver the contents. I realized that in my weakness, i should look at God for Strength. For when i come into teaching, i have already known my weakness. But i am convinced by the words in the bible.

In 1 Cor1:26: Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God choose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of the world and the despised things and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are. So that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is , our righteousness holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is writer: “Let him who boasts boast in the lord.

Indeed, I have known my own weakness and constraint even before going into teaching, but God lead me in the faith. Yes, i want to be a good teacher and i am willing to be taught by the holy spirit and to have faith to be a good teacher.