Effective Teaching: It is the knowledge, strategies, processes, and behavior that lead to good student outcomes.
Effective Teaching Behaviours
- Key Behaviour
- Helping Behaviour
5 Key Behaviors of Effective Teaching
Lesson Clarity: The lesson should be conveyed in a clear step-by-step order; it should be uncomplicated and with minimal distraction.
Instructional Variety: Use of variety of teaching tools (technology, materials, activities, etc.) Use of variation in voice and gesture.
Teacher task orientation: To maximize the time spent on teaching, prevent distraction behavior, and organize lessons well.
Engagement in the Learning Process: Keep a daily schedule to minimize confusion among students and give independent work that is interesting.
Student Success Rate: For a better success rate the content should reflect prior learning with easy-to-grasp steps for the new material.
5 Helpful Behaviors
Using Student Ideas and Contributions: Teachers should acknowledge student responses.
Structuring: The Teacher shold give an organized lesson of what is to come and summarize what has been taught.
Questioning: Use a variety of questions that require more thinking and problem solving.
Teacher Affects: Develop the teacher-learner relationship by the use of enthusiasm and empathy.
Probing: Getting students to elaborate on their ideas.
