stern teacher effective or ineffective?
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I'm a teacher, and I can be completely stern and completely fun and laid back with the same class. I find the combination to be effective. It lets students know that class is a fun place to be, but there are times to be free, fun, and creative, and there are times to be silent and controlled. In general, teachers MUST be stern, but a "stern teacher" seems to indicate one that doesn't make an effort to relate to their students or to make education enjoyable for them, and that's not effective at all.
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Has your district instituted the HOUSSE process? If you teach 2 or more core subjects, the "highly qualified" regular ed teachers can form a committee, observe you, review your lesson plans, and confirm your "highly qualified" status. I'm surprised by the posts here that there are special ed teachers not going through the HOUSSE.\n\nOn the other hand, NCLB is horrific (minimal funding, demanding 100% of all kids reading at grade level without consideration for outside interference like low SES, disabilities, ELL, etc., and blaming all failure on the teachers and schools, such as attendance rates, discipline rates, etc.).  Blech.
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As a teacher , I would like to share my experience regarding this question.I think, teacher is not a dectator rather a person as facilitator, who never impose his/her ideas, feelings, and ideology rather he/she triggers the students' potentiality.Thus, a good teacher always triggers the students' good behavriours rather than molding student's behaviour according to his/her eyes( view).
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I don't think that your assertion is true. It depends on the quality of the instruction & the age & maturity of the student. A good instructor will reduce the chances of that happening. A mature student is less likely to become so full of himself. Unfortunately, there are plenty of poor instructors & immature students.
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An effective, efficient teacher constantly evaluates whether her students are learning, not just the "quality" of her teaching.  If a teacher is only focused on her behavior, she could be performing wonderful teaching.  However, if her students are not learning, despite her teaching, the teaching is ineffective. \n\nEffective teachers look at student assessments, see what students are and aren't learning, and then adjust instruction accordingly.  If kids didn't learn something, the effective teacher goes back and reteaches it.  If one kid didn't learn it, the teacher offers that student (and requires his participation!) extra assistance.\n\nWhen teachers refuse to let students fail, student achievement soars.
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I teach in New York which is a test-happy state.  I am sorry to say that what works best is doing lots and lots of practice tests.  It's a big waste of time but it does improve scores.
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Good teachers aren't just "good" because they know the subjects they teach.  An effective, good teacher is one who can get the material across to any student, motivate students, uplift and encourage students feeling down, diffuse conflicts between students, and above all make students feel good about themselves.\n\nTeachers who do this get their subject material across very well.  It is almost more important for teachers to be good at working with people (specifically youths).  Subject material can come AFTER that.
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The ineffective teacher sticks to the lecture method. The effective teacher does hands on activities to engage the learner.
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Did you go in and actually observe the class, or are you going on things other people or maybe the students have said? It is possible that the school doesn't place a lot of importance on the computer class, so the teacher doesn't either. The best thing to do is let it go. Is anybody permanently damaged by this? Probably not, and if you keep trying, you will just look like a troublemaker.
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Thorough knowledge is an added advantage but if a teacher is not sincere for his work or not dedicated to his proffession then he's not worthed. a teacher should always be approachable for kids.
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Try this, but remember, teachers are getting smarter about plagerizing...if you copy it word-for-word, expect an F, but if you site the sources, this should help.
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well sometimes they can distract you from getting an education.. but maybe work out a deal with your principal.. say "how about if we all work hard this week.. can we bring our mp3s for just a couple days and if we abuse our privledge then you can take them away again?" i dunno.. it might work. i always bargain with my teachers
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Is he as much effective and helpful as his score?
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No!  Take my hubby for example...last semester, he had a teacher that he absolutely hated.  If given the right to he would've evaluated this teacher horribly.  Then, the teacher "retained him".  He couldn't go ahead with the program until he re-took this teachers class and passed it (he only missed passing by about 2 pts).  Hubby hated this teacher.\n\nNow, he's re-taking the class.  He's doing great and has come to realize that this is an awesome teacher that only wants his students to know and study the material.  This teacher has become a great mentor.\n\nAll I'm saying is that if you pay based on student evaluations, where's the checks & balances system in that?  Shouldn't it be based on our work and not potentially open to personal opinions?  It seems to me that something of the sort could happen.  There's plenty of awesome teachers that are just "hard" but sometimes the teachers some students can't get along with are the best.
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I am an education major at OSu in my senior year. I believe that it depends on the student and how they can relate their previous experiences with the teacher they have now. All teaching styles (hard, strict, lenient) can reach some students but no teaching style will reach ALL the students. I personally like a teacher who is strict but not mean. I like it when I have a quiet classroom to think in and I know what the rules are up front. When I was in grade school, I really liked group work but now I don't. It all depends on the child and where they are in their life.
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Not at all. If they are a good teacher, they are a good teacher. Put it this way; do you recall being influenced by your teachers sexuality one bit? I know I ceratinly wasn't. Things like homosexuality are part of the world, hiding it away from kids is not the answer.
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yeh i do agree because teachers aren't too focused on motivating their students and standards are lower than they used to be. For physical ed, teachers dont care to teach that much, they just have the students play and assume that they know everything.