Qualities of a Good Teacher In "The Sandbox Experiment", Peter Sacks says "[I]t really didn't seem to matter what I knew about my field when it came to teaching" Sacks 311. I disagree with him. I believe that knowledge, among many other things, is essential to being a good teacher. A good teacher is someone who is always willing to learn something new and expand their knowledge to help their students achieve success. For example, I had a teacher once who, after a few years of teaching high school, went back to school to earn her doctorate degree. She wanted...
subject by presenting facts and materials in ways that turns that lack of enthusiasm around. My high school math teacher was the best at making complicated trigonometric equations seem as easy as if it were basic algebra. She broke down the equations and explained to us each step in a way that all of her students were able to understand.

Good teachers need to be encouraging, they need time, they need respect, they need to be lifelong learners, and most of all they need knowledge to create a good class. Without these traits a good teacher would not exist.