What qualities make a 'good' teacher?

[Earlybird]

And what sort of teacher do you want for your child?

An intelligent, kind and fair person.

Someone inspirational.

charismatic, a teacher that without raising its voice captures attention of children (even the unruly ones)and who can get a child engrossed and eager in subjects

DD's current teacher is lovely with a positive attitude - but her teaching seems to get side-tracked by unruly children (at least according to dd's accounts).

Would love her to have a teacher with the qualities you've all listed, but ability to control distractions has become important to me/her this year.

Yes have to agree with earlybird. When ds started in reception i just wanted a nice, kind, loving teacher and thought his teacher was overly strict and a bit hard. Now i think she is great, the kids love her, ds loves going to school, but they know they cannot misbehave - even a bit - without a consequence.

Someone kind, fair, empathic. My children have had some amazing teachers. We have only ever had one that did not have all of these qualities.