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Harris, Victor William; Harris, Heidi – World Journal of Education, 2020
Using their cross-disciplinary review of "Ideas that Work in College Teaching," the authors explore the pedagogical commonalities of fifteen higher education instructors from SUNY Potsdam (State University of New York at Potsdam) in an attempt to reveal the secrets of teaching success across thirteen academic disciplines--math, computer…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Instruction, Teaching Models, State Universities
Sweeney, Diane; Mausbach, Ann – Educational Leadership, 2019
One of the most important relationships a principal has is with his or her instructional coach (or coaches). The strength of this partnership directly impacts student outcomes because it builds collective teacher efficacy. In this article, Student-Centered Coaching experts Diana Sweeney and Ann Mausbach share three practices to elevate the work of…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Coaching (Performance), Instructional Leadership
Meizlish, Deborah; Anderson, Olivia – Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2018
Team-taught courses have the potential to enrich experiences for both students and instructors. While the exact motivations for team teaching vary, these courses often share important goals for the students who enroll in them. For example, many team-taught courses seek to promote students' development of higher-order thinking skills by enabling…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Collaboration, Educational Planning, Teamwork
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Kinzli, Kristoph-Dietrich; Kunberger, Tanya; O'Neill, Robert; Badir, Ashraf – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Demonstration models allow students to readily grasp theory and relate difficult concepts and equations to real life. However drawbacks of using these demonstration models are that they are can be costly to purchase from vendors or take a significant amount of time to build. These two limiting factors can pose a significant obstacle for adding…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Demonstrations (Educational), Models, Teaching Models
Carlos-Guzmán, Jesús – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2016
A proposal is presented to assess teacher's performance based on the aspects that educational research has found as fundamental to achieve students' learning. The proposal is aimed mainly at teachers and people responsible for teacher's assessment programs. After criticizing the traditional way of assessing teacher's performance, it is shown a…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Thomas, Jonathan; Fisher, Molly H.; Jong, Cindy; Schack, Edna O.; Krause, Lisa R.; Kasten, Sarah – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
In the buzzing activity of the mathematics classroom, teaching in a way that effectively responds to and furthers students' thinking can be quite challenging. Given that teachers' instructional decisions will directly influence students' learning, it is extremely important to develop the sorts of practices that lead to productive in-the-moment…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Teaching Skills, Classroom Techniques
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Farrell, Thomas S. C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
Recently a dichotomy has developed in the field of TESOL between native English speaker teachers (NESTs) and non-native English speaker teachers (NNESTs) with some in each camp promoting one over the other, but this only separates rather than unifies our profession. In this article I suggest that it is not in anybody's interests to continue with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness
Hamp-Lyons, Elizabeth – English Teaching Forum, 2012
Acknowledging that an interested and enthusiastic teacher can create excitement for students and promote learning, the author discusses how teachers can improve their appearance, and, consequently, how their students perceive them. She offers concrete suggestions on how a teacher can be both a "visual aid" and an "audio aid" in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Visual Aids, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Behavior
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Scheurman, Geoffrey – Social Education, 2012
Students often report that social studies is their most boring and least favorite subject. As a child, Woodrow Wilson was bored by history, later describing his early studies as "one damn fact after another." Of course, Wilson went on to become an eminent historian, but only after he learned to reach beyond the "closed catechism" of "questions…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Concept Teaching, Social Studies, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Moore, Sarah Catherine K. – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Program Director at the Center for Applied Linguistics, outlined factors for content area teachers to consider as they design and deliver lessons for mainstream classrooms that include English learner (EL) students. This Q&A addressed the questions participants had for Dr. Moore following the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, English Language Learners, Lesson Plans, Best Practices
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Foster, Danny T. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2011
There is a great deal to learn from colleagues who have had critical and noteworthy contributions to athletic training education. Therefore, this journal periodically includes the Robert S. Behnke keynote addresses from recipients of the Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award. In this issue, the speech from Danny T. Foster, PhD, who…
Descriptors: Athletics, Recognition (Achievement), Physical Education Teachers, Conference Papers
Public Impact, 2012
In the schoolhouse, nothing matters more to students' learning than their teachers. But only about one of every four U.S. classrooms has an "excellent teacher"--one who produces enough learning progress to close achievement gaps quickly and help all students leap ahead to higher-order learning. What can schools do, now, to reach many…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Recognition
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Parsons, Seth; Williams, Baxter; Burrowbridge, Sarah; Mauk, Gary – Voices from the Middle, 2011
The authors present adaptability as an important component of reading teacher effectiveness. They demonstrate recent conceptions of teacher effectiveness that value the complexity and unpredictability of classroom instruction. Using an example from a middle grades classroom, they illustrate how effective teachers adapt their instruction to enhance…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Teachers, Media Adaptation, Literacy
Public Impact, 2012
As new evaluation systems begin to enable school and district leaders to identify their excellent teachers, states and school systems are looking ahead to the next step. Leaders ask: Now that we know who our great teachers are, how can we give them the opportunity to take on new roles and advance in their careers? How can we pay them more--ideally…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Career Development, Rewards
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
Teach For America's (TFA) shift over the past decade toward measuring and promoting its teachers' ability to boost student performance has caused the organization to reconfigure not just program directors' roles, but nearly all its other support components. It has overhauled its five-week summer training, known as "Institute," to incorporate the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Professional Development, Academic Achievement
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