“Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” Oscar Wilde

W HAT IS A T EACHER ? The mediocre teacher tells The good teacher explains The superior teacher demonstrates The great teacher inspires William Arthur Ward

T HE F OUNDATION INTEGRITY Students will assume you have it But it must be demonstrated “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson EXPERTISE You have years of education And 2 or 3 degrees And a title

T HE S KILLS Preparation & Organization Structure Have rules But not too many Have reasons for the rules It does not matter if the students agree with your rules It does matter that you explain your reasons for the rules And that you apply them consistently and fairly Post grades Promptly

T HE I NTANGIBLES STORYTELLER Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” Pericles “Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” Hannah Arendt

ARTIST “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” John Steinbeck “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” Anatole France

TRUSTED MENTOR “Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” Max Forman

TRUSTED MENTOR “Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” Max Forman

MYSTIC "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited." Plutarch “I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.”Robert Frost