Identifying Good Teaching

1. Identifying Good Teaching What Research Tells Us By Carl Stedman

2. Effective teachers should: • Know background information about students and related instructional planning (development, diversity, abuse) • Communicate goals, objectives, and learning expectations clearly to students

3. Effective teachers should: • Relate instructional plans and learning expectations to learner characteristics and future content through careful selection of teaching methods, learning activities, and available technology, with consideration of the motivational needs of students

4. Effective teachers should: • Match learning carefully against established goals or expectations and monitor student progress through a variety of means, giving timely feedback to students

5. Effective teachers should: • Evaluate and interpret student progress with understandable evaluation methods, using appropriate data, interpreting data with professional expertise, and communicating results to students and parents

6. Effective teachers should: • Encourage students to think by designing appropriate instruction, create a climate of fairness in the classroom, as well as review and use research findings in instruction and self-examination