1. Basic Understandings _the teacher
UNIT A
Basic Understandings
_the teacher
A Team Effort by L. Block, O. Turrubiates, B. Garza, K. Cavazos, G. Perez & Y. Cavazos

2. Before we start lets… Check Your Teaching Effectiveness
Teacher Quiz
Before we start lets… Check Your Teaching Effectiveness
Good Luck!

3. What You Need To Succeed On The First Day Of School
Chapter 1
What You Need To Succeed On The First Day Of School

4. The Key Idea
Your Success during the school year will be determined by what you do on the first days of school.

5. The Most Important thing to establish in the first week of school is…
CONSISTENCY!

6. “ The highest stake of all is our ability to help children realize their fullest potential”
_ Samuel J. Meisels

7. The Four Stages of Teaching
Fantasy
Survival
Mastery
Impact
Many teacher make it through the first phase and
EFFECTIVE teachers reach the fourth.

8. Fantasy
The teacher believes that to be successful that they need to relate and be a friend to the student
They rarely talk about assessments and entertain with activities.

9. Survival
In this stage the teacher has not developed instructional skills.
The teacher gives them busy work and student learning are not their goals.

10. Mastery
The teacher knows how to manage the classroom and has expectations of their students.
At this stage, they use effective practices and student achievement is their MASTERY GOAL.

11. Impact Effective teachers make an impact is student’s lives
To make an impact on your students use effective teaching practices.
When reach this stage you return to fantasy stage because you fulfill your dream of making a difference in the lives of students.

12. IMPACT Teachers universally say they go into teaching to make a difference. You more than make a difference. You ARE the difference.

13. What Is An Effective Teacher?
Chapter 2
What Is An Effective Teacher?

14. The Key Idea
The beginning teacher must become proficient in the three characteristics of an effective teacher.

15. Positive Expectations
Classroom Management
Lesson Mastery
Positive Expectations
There are 3 characteristics of an effective teacher and they apply to all teachers

16. The 3 Characteristics of an Effective Teacher
Has Positive expectations for the student success.
Is and Extremely good classroom manager.
Knows how to design lessons for student mastery.
Everyone of us is both a student and a teacher.
We are at our best when we teach ourselves what we need to learn.

17. Positive Expectations
Having Positive Expectations simply means the teacher believes in the learner and the learner can learn
It is essential that the teacher exhibit positive expectations toward ALL students

18. Classroom Management
Classroom management consists of the practices and procedures that a teacher uses to maintain an environment in which instruction and learning can occur.

19. Lesson Mastery
Mastery refers to how well a student can demonstrate that a concept has been comprehended, or perform a skill at a level of proficiency, as determined by the teacher.

20. Effective Classroom! Well-Ordered Environment +
Positive Academic Expectations =
Effective Classroom!

21. How You Can Be A Happy First-year Teacher
Chapter 3
How You Can Be A Happy First-year Teacher

22. The Key Idea
The beginning teacher must perform the full complement of skills while learning those skills.

23. Here’s the biggest secret to success:
Steal
Borrow
Beg

24. Student teaching will not have prepared you
The First Year Of Teaching Can Be Frightening
Teacher education will not have prepared you.
Student teaching will not have prepared you.
The district may not have prepared you.
Yet, you will be expected to perform immediately.

25. If you want positive results from your professional career, know that your collegiate are your best resource.
Work in collegial manner with your colleagues. Associate with and learn from positive mentors and coaches. Join a professional organization. Continue to learn through classes, workshops, conferences, professional meetings, books, journals, CDs, DVDs, the internet, advanced degrees.

26. Inside Every Great Teacher There Is An Even Better One Waiting To Come Out

27. The Effective Teacher Works cooperatively and learns from colleges.
Seeks out a colleague who serves as a role model.
Goes to professional meetings to learn.
Has a goal of striving for excellence.

28. How To Close The Student Achievement Gap
Chapter 4
How To Close The Student Achievement Gap

29. The Key Idea
The effectiveness of the teacher determines the level of student achievement.

30. There's one difference : the ineffective teacher is simply not doing what the effective teacher is doing.

31. Ineffective teachers Effective teachers Look for busy work Survivors
Whiners
Expected for others to tell them what to do
Innovative planners
Exceptional classroom managers
Adept critical thinkers
Competent problem solvers
Think, adapt, & implement
Problem solvers

32. What teachers do is a miracle
We accept all children from every imaginable situation and care for them, nurture them, and teach them.

33. The Effective Teacher
Uses effective practices focused on student achievement
Is an innovative planner and exceptional classroom manager.
Is an adept critical thinker competent problem solver.
Represent the greatest asset of a school.

34. Effective teachers steal from the best and learn from the rest

35. Why You Should Use Prove , Research-based Practices
Chapter 5
Why You Should Use Prove , Research-based Practices

36. The Key Idea
Effective teachers use proven, research based practices that are employed by thousands of other teachers.

37. It May Be Dangerous To Teach As You Were Taught.

38. Effective teachers do what the research tells us is most effective
Effective teachers do what the research tells us is most effective. Effective teachers use proven, research-based practices. Why would you do otherwise?

39. This Model of Teaching Has NO Research to Support It
Assign chapters to read.
Answer the questions at the back of the chapter or on the worksheet.
Deliver a lecture and have students take notes
Show a video or do an activity.
Construct a test based on a number of points.
Control the assignment of grades.

40. The Four Beliefs Of An Effective Teacher
It is the teacher who makes a difference in the classroom.
By far the most important factor in school learning is the ability of the teacher.
There is an extensive body of research and knowledge about teaching that must be known by the teacher.
The teacher must be a decision maker, able to translate the research and body of knowledge about teaching into increased student learning
_ After Madeline Hunter

41. Educational Research That Applies To Every Teacher
John P. Rickards discovered two things:
The most ineffective place to print questions is at the end of a textbook chapter.
It is ineffective to give a student all the questions for an assignment at one time, and then ask the student to answer all the questions and to turn them in all at one time.

42. The Successful Teacher Must Know And Practice The Three Characteristics Of An Effective Teacher.