What Does a Good Teacher Do Now?

Abstract

Five graduate students reflect on their experiences in multiple roles to address the question, What does a good teacher do now?—during a pandemic, in a moment of reckoning with white supremacy, in the face of uncounted griefs and challenges. We contend that good teachers craft communities of care for students, colleagues, and themselves. We advance trauma, accessibility, surveillance, and labor as particular sites for that project.

Assessment of Teacher Motivation, Psychometric Properties of the Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers (WTMST) in Spanish Teachers

“…On the other hand, motivational processes need not be uniform and may vary according to the tasks to be performed. Good teachers are expected, among other functions, to be effective in the teaching-learning process, to maintain students' interest, to avoid frustration and failure, to develop positive attitudes, to create a good classroom climate, to mediate between the student and the contents of the subject, and to be up to date in the scientific and pedagogical field [23][24][25][26].…”