What Makes a Good Teacher

The article I read was “What Makes a Great Teacher” by Dan Brown.  I have to agree with Dan Brown that new teachers need to be transitioned into a full time class, coworkers and leadership should be supportive, and a great teacher has to be dedicated and willing to continuously improve their craft. I think teachers should also possess great communication skills, if you cannot reach your students and relate at their level than how can you expect to impart anything on to them. A teenager does not want to be told what to do, or how to do things, especially by an adult. If you want to teach a teenager, you have to relate to them and give them the tools necessary to educate them, while in contrast teaching a elementary age student requires patience and an understanding of where they are, and what they know. Of course college is basically an whole new animal, it is the students responsibility to educate themselves with the tools they have learned from K-12. College students are already adults (mostly) and should already possess the skills required to manage their own education, the teacher becomes more of an influence than an instructor. By influence I mean that they give you the required material, maybe impart you with something to think about, than allow you produce your  own work within the perimeters of their expectations.