Not exact matches
«What I've discovered to be the single most
important characteristic [in a
teacher] would be their compassion for children, as that is the essence of the profession,» said Paul McCarty, vice principal at Martins» Achievement School in Sacramento.
In addition, research showing that value - added measures outperform other
teacher characteristics at predicting a
teacher's impact on student growth in future years — and that they also capture information on
teachers» impacts on longer - term life outcomes like teen pregnancy, college going, and adult earnings — served as an
important justification for differentiating
teacher effectiveness.
The value of reflection is the most
important characteristic of a strongly professional and self - sustaining
teacher.
Coaching also proved an
important characteristic of the most accomplished
teachers in the present study.
Important characteristics of school culture include a caring atmosphere, significant family volunteering, and a supportive environment for
teachers «work.158 Widespread trust among participants promotes collaboration within schools and communities.159 Parental involvement benefits students, particularly; it also seems to benefit families, enhancing their attitudes about themselves, their children «s schools, and school staff members.160
We find it
important to note that researchers, who often represent opposing views about the
characteristics that define effective teaching, do agree on the dangers of using the VAM student growth model to measure
teacher effectiveness.
It is
important to be aware of
teacher beliefs about student
characteristics (race, culture, ethnicity, language, social class), beliefs about external factors that influence student learning, and beliefs about appropriate responses to diversity.
As we learn more about what blended learning is and how it works best, it is
important to set a bar — an adjustable bar — that identifies the
characteristics of excellent blended learning
teachers and supports their ongoing professional development.
A new study finds that the usefulness of
teacher evaluation feedback and the credibility of the evaluator are
important characteristics in how
teachers perceive and respond to evaluations.
After removing bias, the next step is to ensure that
teacher recommendations are picking up student
characteristics not captured by other measures but are
important to student learning.
Coulter (2014) stressed that all these
teacher characteristics are equally
important as
teacher geospatial «capacity factors» (p. 289).
While those are certainly helpful and
important characteristics, and I would hope every new
teacher, from whatever background, has them in abundance, they are not the quintessential elements of effective teaching.
My Assumptions I set out, assuming that five factors are most
important in determining student achievement.They are: 1) whether or not a student attends a choice school, 2) students» demographic
characteristics, 3) students» motivation, 4) a student's parental
characteristics, and 5) a students
teacher characteristics.
How would the
characteristics of a performance of understanding help
teachers become savvier about selecting ways to help their students learn
important content and skills during a lesson?