EFFECTIVE TEACHERS

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EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
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Characteristics

• Has Good Classroom Management Skills
• Teaches for Mastery
• Has Positive Expectations for Student Success

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Management Skills

• High level of student involvement with work
• Clear student expectations
• Relatively little wasted time, confusion, or
  disruption
• Work-oriented but relaxed and pleasant climate
• Assigns seating on the first day of school

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Involvement

• Students are working
• Teacher is monitoring

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Expectations

• Students know that assignments are based on
  objectives
• Students know that tests are based on objectives

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Time

• Discipline plan
• Starts class immediately
• Assignments posted
• Be consistent

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Discipline

• Introduce rules procedures, and routines on the
  very first day of school
• Students need to have a clear idea of what is
  expected
• Post and give the students a copy of the
  rules/procedures
• Always deal with the behavior, not the person
• The number one problem in the classroom is not
  discipline it is the lack of procedures and
  routines

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Climate

• Procedures become routines
• Knows how to bring class to attention
• Knows how to praise and encourage

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Climate Contd.

• Have an inviting personality but be firm
• Create an inviting classroom environment
• Be at the door when the students enter
• Address students by name

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Mastery

• Place to gain knowledge
• Place to become successful
• Maximize academic learning time
• Have students earn their own achievement
• Teach

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Knowledge

• Know your subject and be prepared
• Students are here to gain knowledge
• Each child is living the only life he/she has
  the only one he/she will ever have. The least we
  can do is not diminish it.

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Success

• Provide for students long-term development into
  a self-responsible, independent learner
• Ability to be responsible for ones own learning
• Ability to work with others
• Ability to use complex thinking and problem
  solving skills
• Ability to recognize and produce quality work

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Maximize Learning Time

• Keep students on task
• Monitor, monitor, and monitor
• Do not stop instruction when giving out
  consequences for discipline
• Give out the penalty quietly as you continue with
  the lesson or classwork

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Achievement

• Pride in success
• Students assume responsible for their learning
• Promote a community of learners who share with
  and learn from each other
• Nurture their desire to learn and achieve

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Teach

• Have the room ready
• Have the work ready
• Have yourselves ready
• Right or wrong, your reputation will precede you

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Expectations

• One correlation with success is ATTITUDE
• Positive expectations
• Students learn as little or as much as their
  teachers expect
• Students need to be actively engaged

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Teachers

• Help people improve the quality of their life
• Create an environment for all students to succeed
• Are role models for their students

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Profession of Helping People Enhance the Quality
of Their Lives

• Not in private practice
• An employee of a school district
• Must teach the curriculum
• Works cooperatively and learns from colleagues

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WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN