Effective Teacher Essay, Research Paper

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.