This is a perfect list of teacher expectations. If
anything, I think you may be going too easy on us. I would add that a teacher should be
expected to provide you timely feedback on your assignments, and a teacher should be
frequently assessing your skills in that classroom and making you aware of
them.
I also think that you, as a student, can help a
teacher to reach those expectations. For example, you ask for the teacher to "teach in a
way we [students] can understand." Well, as a teacher, we have the skills to determine
the best way to execute this if you, as students, help us to understand what ways you
learn best -- Do you learn by listening? Doing? Watching? Talking? Etc. Give us
feedback, and we can make it work.
Trust, communication,
and sense of humor are key factors in any type of human interaction, thus exponentially
more important in a student/teacher relationship. I feel that oftentimes teachers who
lack these qualities are not confident in their own skills, which is not something you,
as a student, should be concerned about, but instead be aware of. We are always more
sensitive about things we are unsure of.
Overall, these are
fantastic expectations, and I would hold my students to these same expectations...and of
course, doing your homework! ;-)
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