Effective Teacher
An effective teacher is one who runs an
effective classroom, and touches the
lives of children. An efficient teacher
is one who knows what they are doing and
does the right thing consistently.
To be and effective and efficient teacher you
must have three very important
characteristics for student success. Positive
expectations, extremely good
classroom management skills, and know how to design
lessons for student
mastery. Positive expectations are essential to student
success. When the
teacher has high expectations, not high standards, the
students will perform
to your expectations. If you believe that all students are
above average and
that they all are capable learners, these expectations will
transmit to the
student, and the student will succeed. If these expectations are
apparent
toward all students it will benefit both the teacher and the
students.
Good classroom management is important for student success. For
this to happen,
the teacher has to be very organized, and consistent in
everything. The teacher
must maintain control so that instruction and
learning can occur. Much of the
control that a teacher has over a class is
effected by what the teacher does on
the first day of school. If you can
maintain control during the first week, that
is an accurate indicator for how
well the students will do for the rest of the
year. Designing lessons for
student mastery is also very important for student
success. To teach for
mastery, an effective teacher must do two things, know how
to design lessons
in which the student can learn, and know how to evaluate the
learning to see
if the student has mastered the concept. You can learn to be an
effective
teacher by learning from your mistakes as well as from your mentors
and
fellow teachers. Every one of us is both a student and a teacher. We are
at
our best when we teach ourselves what we need to learn.