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The Effective Teacher

The PROFESSIONAL TEACHER is a licensed professional who possess dignity and reputation with
high moral values as well as technical and professional competence. Teachers adhere to observe
and practice a set of ethical and moral principle, standards, and values.

The teacher is someone who causes other to learn. He is a person who exerts a considerable
influence in the life of other people specifically the learners under his care.

Professional Attributes of a Teacher:

1. Control of the knowledge of teaching and learning and uses this knowledge to guide the
science and art of his teaching practice.
2. Repertoire of the best teaching practice and use these to instruct learners in the classrooms
and to work with adults in the tertiary setting.
3. Dispositions and skills to approach all aspects of his work in a reflective, collegial, and
problem-solving manner.
4. View of learning as a lifelong process and dispositions and skills.

Attributes of an Effective Teacher:

There are five key behaviors which are considered essential for effective teaching (Borich, 2010;
Scheuerman, 2013). These are:

1. Lesson Clarity

According to Borich (2010), lesson clarity refers to how clear and precise a teacher’s
presentation is to the class. There are multiple indicators which teachers can harness in
order to be clear in their presentation. Being clear consists of several factors of creating a
sound lesson plan as well as understanding the audience whom the lesson will be presented
to. An effective teacher will inform the learners of the lesson objectives and give directives
slowly and distinctly. Additionally, effecting teachers will provide students with advance
organizers, examples, illustrations, and demonstration to explain or clarify. Much time and
effort can go into creating a lesson with various learning materials to help further learning.
The time and effort may be for nothing if the teacher does not understand their students.
Effective teachers will check for task-relevant prior learning, and will know the ability levels
of the students and will teach at or slightly above these levels. Finally, teachers that are
effective in providing lesson clarity will incorporate a review or summary at the end of each
lesson. All these are indicators for lesson clarity and are used by effective teachers.

2. Instructional Variety

The teacher uses attention gaining device such as beginning the lesson with challenging
question, visual or examples that are related but different from previous lesson or activity,
showing enthusiasm (through eye contact voice, and gesture), varying model of presentation,
using variety of reward and punishment, incorporate student’s idea participation in some
aspects of instruction, and varied type of questions (e.g., match questions to behavior and
complexity of the lesson objective). The complexity of lesson objectives is also varied in
accord with the unit plan.

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3. Teacher Tasks Orientation

Teacher task orientation is a behavior that refers to the classroom time a teacher devotes to
teaching an academic subject. Borich (2010) states, “the more time allocated to teaching a
specific topic, the greater the opportunity students have to learn.” Effective teachers will
demonstrate many skills for teacher task orientation. Several simple aspects which are not
necessarily easy to achieve are how a teacher handles administrative and clerical
interruptions and how a teacher stops or prevents misbehaviors with minimum class
disruption. Teachers should have some sort of rule and consequences established in regards
with misbehaviors. Additionally, effective teachers will develop a lesson plan that reflects the
most relevant features of the curriculum. From this, teachers can elect the most appropriate
instructional model for the objectives being taught. Finally, an effective teacher builds the
unit outcomes with clearly definable events such as weekly or monthly review, feedback, or
testing. This can be done by establishing a schedule where the classroom activities are
beginning and ending with events that are clearly visible and know to the student. Overall, it
is very important to allow students adequate time on specific topics, stay focused on the key
points of the lesson, and to reduce any sort of distractions that may arise.

4. Engagement in the Learning Process

Student engagement is key behavior that refers to the following indicators: elicit the behavior
immediately after the instructional stimuli, provides opportunity for feedback in a non-
evaluative atmosphere, using individual and group activities, using meaningful verbal praise
to get and keep students actively participating in the learning process, and monitoring
seatwork and check frequently the progress during independent practice.

5. Opportunities for Success

Success rate may indicate teachers who established unit and lesson content that (1) reflects
prior learning, (2) plans transition to new material in easy to grasp steps, (3) divides
instructional stimuli into small chuck, and (4) varies the pace at which stimuli are presented.
Other helping behaviors include using student’s ideas and contribution, structuring (what
have been done and what will come), questioning (to attract students’ direct involvement in
the materials taught), probing (teacher statement that encourage students to elaborate the
argument or answer) and teacher affect (good face expression, gesture, voice intonation, and
general movement of teacher in teaching).

Personal Attributes of a Teacher:

Personality is the sum total of one’s personal characteristics. It is one’s identity. Teachers, more
than any other professional, are momentarily subjected to scrutiny to the minutest detail and
observation by those they associate with. Teachers are judged more strictly than other
professionals. The personality they project determines the impressions they make upon students
and colleagues. Their poise, bearing, manner of dressing and facial expression has an impact on
their interaction with the learners.

1. PASSION for Teaching - It is a compelling force that emerges from teachers’ love for
learners. “They will live and die as a teacher.”

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2. HUMOR - Teacher’s humor connects them with their learners like a magnet. They help
merging the worlds of youth and maturity. “When they laugh together, they enjoy as a
group, thus promote a spirit of togetherness.”

3. VALUES & ATTITUDES

Open-mindedness
- is basic in promoting respect and trust
- opens avenues for unrestricted search for information and evidence
- problems and issues are resolved in a democratic way
- students are encouraged to consider one another’s findings and explanations

Fairness & Impartiality


- it eliminates discrimination in treating learners
- teachers must be unbiased and objective in judging their work and performance
- avoid preferential considerations that result to negative response and indifference
- objective evaluations are easily accepted and gratefully acknowledged
- fairness inculcates self-confidence and trust among learners

Sincerity & Honesty


- values exhibited in words and actions
- teachers must show their real self, devoid of pretenses and half-truths
- sincerity dictates that they stick to the truth, to the extent of accepting what they do not
know about the lesson
- students will realize that it is better to tell the truth than feign a falsehood
- sincerity and honesty are taken as openness in dealing w/ others

Professionalism
- it is highly treasured in the teaching profession
- teachers are adjudged professional if they are knowledgeable, skilled and value-laden
- teachers must have internalized the edicts of the profession, thus exhibit ethical and moral
conduct
- they earn respect and high esteem from students and colleagues
- they catch learners’ attention and keep them focused on the topic, to soothe their feelings

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