2. What Makes an Effective Teacher?10
What Makes an Effective Teacher?

3. What Makes an Effective Teacher?
Being comfortable in numerous roles
Exhibiting professionalism
Working well within the school
Displaying knowledge and teaching skill
Communicating effectively
Dealing with conflicts

4. What qualities do you possess that will help make you an effective teacher?
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5. Describe the major roles that teachers perform.
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6. Teaching Roles Information provider Facilitator Planner
Learning evaluator
Role model
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7. Teachers Provide Information
Know the content well
Knowledge base should be appropriate for the teaching level
Choose and evaluate accuracy of information
Present the information in a variety of interesting ways

8. Teachers Facilitate Learning
As facilitators, teachers guide students’ learning
Requires students to do the work of learning
Promotes creativity and self-motivation
Different from directive learning
Facilitation is a learned skill

9. Teachers Plan for Learning
What information will be learned
How it will be presented
What the outcomes should be
How to adapt to the unexpected
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10. Teachers Evaluate Learning
May result in a grade (letter or number)
Grading policies should be clear to students
Assessment determines how much a student is learning

11. Teachers Are Role Models
Teachers’ behavior can have a positive or negative effect on students
Effective teachers act as examples of
honesty
respect
responsibility

12. How have your teachers acted as role models for you?
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13. Identify teachers’ professional qualities that have had an impact on your life.
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14. Developing Professional Qualities
Professionalism includes a high degree of
skill
competence
ethics

15. Be Dependable Dependability includes being on time prepared to teach
loyal
reliable

16. Be Responsible Being responsible includes
being committed to obligations, relationships, and actions
accepting blame for mistakes
doing your best on a team
carrying a task through to the end

17. Be Committed to Students
Help each student learn by understanding their abilities, skills, interests, strengths, and relationships
Teachers also help foster a student’s
self-esteem
motivation to learn

18. Show Respect
Teachers must show regard for each person’s needs, feelings, and potential
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19. Show Respect Also must show respect to everyone on staff
Includes being courteous to support staff
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20. Be a Team Player
Effective interpersonal skills help you be a good team player
Almost all jobs require collaboration
Teachers are required to work well with students, other teachers, staff, administrators, and school board members

21. See the Big Picture
Avoid getting bogged down in day-to-day tasks and problems
Stay focused on the real goals
Do not overlook the details

22. Develop a Positive Attitude
Get satisfaction from the job
Have optimism and energy
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23. Develop a Positive Attitude
Benefits include energizing others
To improve your attitude,
think about what you like best about the job
focus on strides students are making
change whatever is within your power to improve

24. What can be the result if a teacher has a poor attitude
What can be the result if a teacher has a poor attitude? How can this affect the students?
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25. Compare your school’s written information on organizational culture to your observations.
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26. Working Effectively Within a School
A school’s organizational culture includes
things you can see, such as the way people dress
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27. Working Effectively Within a School
A school’s organizational culture includes
people’s assumptions, values, and reasons for behaviors and actions
school policies and procedures, such as the mission statement
the chain of command
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28. Working Effectively Within a School
Ask questions
Pay attention to conversations
Find out
how people negotiate issues
how things get done
who really has the most influence

29. What might happen if a teacher does not understand the school’s organizational culture?
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30. Explain the importance of subject-matter knowledge to teachers and how they can stay updated.
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31. Subject Knowledge and Teaching Skills
Teachers need a broad understanding of their subject matter, including
how it relates to basic academic skills
how it relates to students’ future careers
Must be lifelong learners
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32. Subject Knowledge and Teaching Skills
Take advantage of opportunities for professional development, such as
professional organizations
seminars and conferences
advanced degrees
Must be able to teach subject matter in addition to knowing it

33. Demonstrate your ability to produce clear, professional, written communication.
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34. Communicating Effectively
Every aspect of teaching is based on communication
People communicate without realizing they are doing so
To avoid mixed messages, verbal and nonverbal messages should match

35. Creating Positive Relationships
Take ownership in the relationship—take responsibility for your feelings and behaviors
Be an active listener—ask questions, restate ideas, focus on the other person
Use assertive communication—express thoughts freely and allow others to as well
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36. Creating Positive Relationships
To be an assertive communicator, avoid being
an aggressive communicator, who is hurtful and disrespectful
a passive communicator, who avoids conflict by not communicating

37. Do you see yourself as an assertive, aggressive, or passive communicator?
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38. Improving Communication Skills
Skills include
speaking
writing
nonverbal communication
electronic communication

39. Speaking Teachers must speak with thought and purpose
Use time effectively
Consider your audience’s
needs
interests
motivation
understanding
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40. Speaking Remember that teachers are almost never off duty continued
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41. Speaking Never speak badly about coworkers or students
Never reveal personal or confidential information
ALWAYS think before you speak

42. Writing
Avoid trying to impress people with complicated words and long sentences
Organize your writing effectively
Check grammar and language
Realize that anything you write may be permanent

43. Do you always use appropriate writing skills
Do you always use appropriate writing skills? In what circumstances might you NOT write appropriately?
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44. Nonverbal Communication
Become more aware of nonverbal cues, such as
facial expressions
body posture
movements
tone of voice
appearance
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45. Electronic Communication
Once an electronic message is sent, you have no control over what happens to it
Electronic communication allows teachers to stay in touch with students and parents
Use , text messages, and website posts carefully, thoughtfully, and cautiously

46. Identify the steps in constructive conflict resolution and describe the goal of mediation.
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47. Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is inevitable, as people have different ideas, beliefs, and priorities
Conflicts can be positive and enriching
Keep others’ feelings about conflict in mind
Teachers must routinely deal with conflicts

48. Constructive Conflict Resolution
A step-by-step method of coming to a solution
A process that moves from decision making to problem solving to crisis resolution
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49. Constructive Conflict Resolution
Step 1: Clarify the issue
Make sure parties identify the same problem
Step 2: Find out what each person wants
Step 3: Identify various alternatives
Both parties should brainstorm creative solutions
Step 4: Decide how to negotiate
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50. Constructive Conflict Resolution
Step 5: Choose the best alternative
What alternative can both parties accept?
Step 6: Solidify the agreement
Agree to implement the accepted choice
Step 7: Review and renegotiate
The problem may not always be solved if the parties do not follow through

51. Mediation
Disagreements that are not easily solved may require a mediator
During mediation, a neutral third party tries to help reach a peaceful settlement
Teachers frequently act as mediators

52. Based on your experience, what makes a teacher an effective mediator?
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53. Teachers play a variety of roles
Success requires an understanding of the organizational culture
Teachers also need knowledge of their subject area, skills to motivate students, lifelong learning, communication skills, and conflict management skills

54. What is involved in assessment?
determining how much a student or class has learned or is currently learning
____ include conduct based on moral principles.
Ethics
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55. What is the chain of command?
the official organizational structure that tells who reports to whom
Why is being lifelong learners important for teachers?
so they stay up-to-date in their knowledge and skills