What makes a good teacher?

A couple thoughts on what it takes to be a good teacher:

Determination

Persistence

Flexibility

Creativity

Content Knowledge

Stamina

Head-Strongness

Fairness

Positive

Patience

Organized

I think of all these I need some patience. I feel like I will expect my future students to be as well versed and as quick to grasp concepts as when I teach them and I will need to be able to be patient and know that this is their first time going over the material.

Secondly, I feel like I need to have the determination to get through an entire school year. It is a long time to be dealing with the same students for 9 months and I know there will be some mornings that I will dread having to get out of bed at 6am to get off to class. I know that I want to do this, I want to make this happen, I want to teach. I just want to get out there and do it.