Effective Teacher Characteristics

2.1.3 The effective teacher’s characteristic Being a trainee teacher is not easy because their behavior being force same like the real teacher in the class. In order to be able to teach the students well, teacher must have several characteristics of being an effective teacher. Thus, there are several description of being an effective teacher will be discussed below. According to Robert, Walker (2008, p.65-66), there are twelve personal and professional characteristic of effective teachers, such as:
“1. Prepared, means that the teacher is ready to teach.
2. Positive, means that teacher have positive attitude about teaching and students
3. Hold high expectations, means that teacher believed that every students can be outstanding
4. Creative,

Means that the students who are study in education field has already obtained some knowledge about how to be a real teacher, how to handle the teacher, how to make a lesson plan, how to create interesting activities. Thus, from the knowledge they have gotten in the university, they administer those knowledge into practice which is became a trainee teacher who job is teaching the students in the real classroom. In addtition, Kyriacou & Stephen, 1999 (as cited in Jusoh, Zailani) defined teaching practicum as the most stressful part for trainee teachers to show their first formal struggle on teaching. This statement means that, teaching practicum is a hard part to do since they have no teaching experience at all but they have to take teaching practicum as their first experience in teaching students in the real classroom. Atmajaya Catholic University, Faculty of Education and Language has a program for their English Departement students. English Department students must take the Teaching Practicum Program to fulfil of the requirement for their Bachelor’s Degree. Therefore, Atmajaya majoring English Department sends their students to become a trainee teacher in the primary school or secondary school. Waltham (2009) said that “student teaching is one of the most critical times for development of a future teacher.” This

His study investigated about what are the trainee teachers’ concerns and challenges during the teaching practicum stage. There were two female trainee teacher who have just completed the teaching practicum from school became his participants. He conducted his research by using interview to obtain their perspectives based on their experience. The result of his study showed that those trainee teachers face a lot of challenges during the teaching practicum, such as they got unpleasant classrom situation, when the trainee got a change in teaching the lower grade, they cannot control them because the lower grade students tend to make some noise in the class, the trainee is not allowed to speak English mix with Bahasa, and there are some students who are not respected them and those students’ attitude create a tense situation in the