Effective Teaching Essay

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What is teaching ? IN education, teachers facilitate student learning, often in a school or academy or perhaps in another environment such as outdoors. A teacher who teaches on an individual basis may be described as a tutor. EFFECTIVE TEACHING MEANS ACADEMIC GROWTH Checker is right that defining effective teaching is the easy part. Hopefully we can all agree that effective teaching means helping students learn what they’re supposed to learn—a teacher’s most important responsibility. So, student academic growth should be the predominant factor in determining effectiveness (although not the only one). WHAT IS EFFECTIVE TEACHING Effective teaching involves the ability to apply research finding to classroom practice. Effective teaching also combines human relations skills, judgment, intuition, knowledge of subject matter, and understanding of learning into one unified act, resulting in improved learning for students. CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHERS 1. Fairness Effective teachers know how to be fair and just and try their very best not to have “pets,” or students that are given unfair advantages over other students. 2. Positive Attitude Good teachers are happy to be teaching. They share their positive attitude by praising and recognizing effort and success in their students. This “positive” influence is contagious. 3. Preparedness Some teachers still don't realize, students can tell when the teacher is not prepared and is just trying to “wing it.” Great teachers are always prepared. 4. Personal Touch Students have fond memories of teachers who connected with them in a personal way. Some teachers do this just by asking students individually, how they are doing. Others intertwine personal stories and experiences with the day's lesson. 5. Sense of Humor It is nice when a teacher can effectively deliver one-liners that give
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