An effective teacher would demonstrate all the skills listed in the three broad categories. However we would like
to propose another six more notable characteristics of an effective teacher: (i) loving the profession; (ii) going
beyond the lesson time; (iii) creating a suitable yet comfortable physical classroom environment; (iv) practising
the art of scaffolding (v) weaving values, leadership and thinking skills into the lesson and (vi) creating class
rules and boundaries through repetition and humour. Though these findings are based on one teacher, they are
justifiable by the rigorous data collection method used and deserve follow-up. Thus, we believe that further
research is inevitable to enable comparisons to be made, and such findings would be more conclusive in
developing a complete list of the characteristic of an effective teacher, specifically on classroom management.