O'Shea, Every-day Problems in Teaching; Betts, How to Teach Religion; Brumbaugh, The Making of a Teacher; Palmer, The Ideal Teacher; Slattery, Living Teachers; Weigle, Talks to Sunday School Teachers.
CHAPTER V
PERSONALITY
Outline—Chapter V
The six major qualities:—a. Sympathy.—b. Sincerity.—c. Optimism.—d. Scholarly attitude.—e. Vitality.—f. Spirituality.
To set about to cultivate separate qualities would be rather a discouraging undertaking. As a matter of fact, many of the characteristics named really overlap, while others are secondary in importance. For practical purposes let us enlarge upon five or six qualities which everyone will agree are fundamental to teaching success.
The class in Teacher Training, at the Brigham Young University, in the summer of 1920, named these six as the most fundamental:
- 1. Sympathy.
- 2. Sincerity.
- 3. Optimism.
- 4. Scholarly attitude.
- 5. Vitality.
- 6. Spirituality.