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What Makes a Great Teacher

David Cameron’s proclamation betrays the fact that he doesn’t know anything about teaching. As a teacher in various comprehensives for the past 20 years, I have seen many good teachers, and some graduate with good degrees from so-called "good universities. " But I’ve also met a great many excellent teachers who wouldn’t have passed his test. Some didn’t have degrees in their chosen subjects; others didn’t have degrees at all.
Cameron’s mistake is to think qualifications make a good teacher. They don’t. Take Lesley, a high-powered business executive. She had everything: a great degree, excellent organisational skills and good communication skills. Yet she failed in the classroom because she was so impatient with her pupils: nothing they did was good enough. Whereas her employees had tolerated her endless nit-picking (找茬), her pupils became disaffected.
David was another illustration of the shortcomings
A. a great academic degree
B. excellent organization skills
C. good communication skills
D. quality such as patience

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David Cameron’s proclamation betrays the fact that he doesn’t know anything about teaching. As a teacher in various comprehensives for the past 20 years, I have seen many good teachers, and some graduate with good degrees from so-called "good universities. " But I’ve also met a great many excellent teachers who wouldn’t have passed his test. Some didn’t have degrees in their chosen subjects; others didn’t have degrees at all.
Cameron’s mistake is to think qualifications make a good teacher. They don’t. Take Lesley, a high-powered business executive. She had everything: a great degree, excellent organisational skills and good communication skills. Yet she failed in the classroom because she was so impatient with her pupils: nothing they did was good enough. Whereas her employees had tolerated her endless nit-picking (找茬), her pupils became disaffected.
David was another illustration of the shortcomings
A. obtaining a degree from Oxford
B. getting the class began talking
C. explaining the requirement in clear English
D. making the 12-year-olds behave well

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