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Methods of TeachingHandout #1, Unit 1

Summary of Conclusions from Teacher E ectiveness Research

Early in the 1 !" s, educational researchers interested inim$roving teachers $erformance and students learning inschool %egan studying the relationshi$ %et&een teachersactions in the classroom and students scores on school tests'These researchers identi(ed certain teacher actions that havea $ositive e ect on students school test scores' This researchis called )teacher e ectiveness research

More recently, researchers have identi(ed teachers actionsthat not only result in satisfactory test scores %ut also have a

$ositive e ect on school attendance, $romotion to the ne*tgrade on time, graduation on time, coo$erative %ehavior inschool, and students %eliefs that they can learn in school'

+hile the )teacher e ectiveness research doesn t tell us all&e need to no& a%out e ective teachers and satisfactorylearning for all students in school ,it does direct our attentionto teacher actions that are associated &ith students testscores that are satisfactory' Conclusions from the manystudies of teachers actions in the classroom can %esummari-ed in di erent &ays' T&o summaries are $rovided

here'

.da$ted from /oe, 0', ell, C', 2 0ittle, 3' 45""67' .$$roachesto evaluating teacher e ectiveness8 . research synthesis'9ational Com$rehensive Center for Teacher :uality'+ashington, ;C'

Efective teachers %elieve their students are ca$a%le oflearning and they canteach them successfully' <f students do not learn from alesson, these teachers teach it again using a di erent methodand, $erha$s, di erent materials'

Efective teachers organi-e life in the classroom so that time isused for learning and students are not sitting at their des s&ith nothing to do or roaming around the classroom'

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Efective teachers move through the curriculum at a $ace thatchallenges students to ee$ u$ %ut in relatively small ste$s tominimi-e frustration and allo& continuous $rogress'

Efective teachers are active teachers in that they demonstrate

s ills, e*$lain conce$ts, design $ro%lems for students to solveand revie& regularly' They em$hasi-e understanding anda$$lication of no&ledge' They $rovide am$le

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o$$ortunity for $ractice' They encourage students to ta e$ersonal res$onsi%ility for learning' They move around theclassroom continuously to maintain contact &ith students'

.da$ted from /ood, T' 0', 2 ro$hy, >' E' 45""67' 0oo ing inClassrooms 41" th Ed'7' oston8 ?earson

Efective teachers res$ect young $eo$les minds and have highe*$ectations for all students'

Efective teachers use many methods and instructionalresources to $lan and structure engaging learningo$$ortunities@ monitor student $rogress continuously@ ada$tinstruction %ased on assessment data@ and evaluate learning

using multi$le sources of evidence'Efective teachers contri%ute to the develo$ment of students&ho value diversity and civility in interactions &ith other$eo$le'

Efective teachers colla%orate &ith $arents, other teachers,$rinci$als, and educational $rofessionals to $romote studentlearning'

.lso ada$ted from /ood and ro$hy 45""67

Efective teachers

set goals for instruction that are at a Aust managea%le level ofdiBculty for students

%uild learning in small ste$s

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connect ne& conce$ts to no&ledge students have alreadyac uired

monitor student &or and $rovide feed%ac

as good uestions

achieve a$$ro$riate $acing for instruction

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ou no& have three lists of teachers actions in classes &herestudents earn high scores on school tests and graduate fromsecondary school' Read the lists again and create one list that

includes all of the actions %ut does not re$eat any action'Using the form given to you %y your teacher, create a chec listthat you can use &hen you o%serve a teacher in a classroom'

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There are two important limitations to this research from yourperspective. First, it was conducted in schools in western, non Islamiccountries. There is a reason to share it with you, though. Most of theconclusions are consistent with contemporary

research on learning that are believed to be universal to all humanlearning.

Second, all of this research uses statistics the produce correlations. You will learn, if you don’t already now that correlations simply tell usthat two events occur together. The statistic doesn’t tell us that oneevent is causing the other to occur.So, we now that students in classrooms where teachers engage inthese actions earn higher test scores than do students in classroomswhere teachers do not engage in these actions. !e do not nowwhich, if any, of these actions cause higher test scores.

"s indicated earlier, #ndings from this research are consistent withevidence about some universal principles of learning. If youunderstand that the teacher actions summari$ed here are not causalfacts, you can use the research with con#dence, modifying it, asindicated for %a istan.

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