Authenticity

To be authentic is to be genuine, and as a teacher, it's important to be authentic. Authenticity is on a spectrum, and you dont want to be on either extremes. If you are too authentic, you come off as cheesy, and i dont think the students will take you seriously. If you aren't authentic enough, then it seems like you don't care about the class, and then neither will the students. A student can tell if a teacher isn't authentic if the teacher doesn't have a good attitude about being at work or if they are too cheesy or boring in their teaching. There is a big change in ramification when the teacher is seen as fake. The students attitude reflects off of the teacher's attitude, so if the students know that the teacher doesn't really care about the subject, then the students don't see any reason to, therefore making their learning drop. It's important for a teacher to be right in the middle of the authenticy spectrum, not too cheesy, but not fake either.