#11: Learn to Listen
With over thirty students in a classroom, there’s bound to be a few that mentally check out right when the instructions start. A teacher can spend ten minutes outlining what needs to be done and answering questions, only to repeat themselves seventeen more times for the sake of students who didn’t pay attention.
Even worse, there will still be students who are too shy to ask and don’t get it done. Those are the ones you have to approach and pry the questions out of to be sure they get it right. This is why lesson plans are so hard to make, and why teachers need to have a warehouse of patience at their disposal.