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Student Success Rate
- The rate at which your students understand and correctly complete exercises and assignments.
- Note that there are three levels of success:
- High success: student understands material and makes occasional errors.
- Moderate success: partial understanding but makes some substantive errors.
- Low success: little or no understanding of the subject matter.
KEY BEHAVIORS CONTRIBUTING TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING
Engagement in the Learning Process
Conclusion
- Engaged learning time is the amount of time that students devote to learning in the classroom.
- Teacher can be more effective by:
- Setting rules that let pupils attend to personal needs and work routines without teacher permission.
- Move around the room to monitor work
- Ensure independent assignments are interesting and worthwhile, and easy to do individually.
- Minimize time-consuming activities
- Make abundant use of resources and activities
- Avoid timing errors.
In order to become an effective teacher, teachers need to be aware of and incorporate these five key behaviors into their classroom!
Lesson Clarity
- Refers to how clear a teacher's presentation is to the class.
- More effective teachers:
- Make ideas clear to learners at different understanding levels.
- Explain in a way that students can logically follow along in.
- Have an oral delivery which is direct, audible to all, and free of distractions.
Instructional Variety
- Refers to one's flexibility or variety in delivering the message or lesson.
- This also includes the use of supplemental leaning materials, computer software, displays, Internet, and space in the classroom.
- Variety helps to engage students and motivate them to learn.
Teacher Task Orientation
- This is a key behavior that refers to the amount of classroom time the teacher devotes to teaching an academic subject.
- It looks at how much content is presented, learned, and assessed opposed to how much time is delegated to procedural matters. (like attendance, collecting homework, etc.)