Effective Teacher Qualities

A new study, based on responses from more than 2,500 colleges and universities, of online education in the U.S. finds that more students than ever are taking distance learning courses —a 17 percent jump from 2007 to 2008. While distance education is getting much popular in the area nowadays, effectual educators are still the key factor that influences and shapes students` life and success. The researchers clearly show that a critical link between effective teaching and students` academic and personal success. Effective teachers, whose abilities help to students learn high level, and grow into a better individual, have three foremost qualities that are emerged as central: subject matter content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and communication skills.
The first and significant quality of effective teachers is subject matter content knowledge which basically means what the teachers know or what to teach. Educators with mastery of subject matter knowledge would be particularly effective in assigning it to students. It is essential that the instructors need understand the subject matter strongly and intensely to teach all students successfully according today`s standards. In general, teachers with rich subject knowledge tend to emphasize different aspect of their subject in order to teach scope of children in a variety way of teaching and connecting with other subject.; less knowledgeable teachers stick closely to teachers` plan or textbook, sometimes miss focusing on important ideas and connection to other ideas. Knowing science, for example, entails knowing something about rules for evidence and how scientific knowledge is established and how the rules can be used in everyday life.
Second important excellence is pedagogical content knowledge which means how to teach. In his book Shulman cites that, “Pedagogical content knowledge identifies the distinctive bodies of knowledge for teaching. It represents the blending of content and pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems or issues are organized, represented, and adapted to the diverse interests and abilities of learners, and presented for instruction.”(Shulman, 1986, P-4). Teachers who have pedagogical skills, abilities and collaborative instructional strategies with variety of teaching techniques apply into learning process such as teaming, mutual learning groups, discussion groups and hands-on activities, out of class activities or projects in order to connect the subject content to real world to encourage the students to be successful person.
Lastly, effective teachers are also good communicators. The successful teachers who are also effective communicator are able to communicate with students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and community members using a variety of formats and media to support their teaching .Teachers influence best by collaborating with other stuff members to share their ideas and assist other teachers with difficulties, working with parents to learn more about their children and looking closely at students and their intelligence and emotions. The effective educators are professional in their written and spoken communications, and do not engage in unfounded information or let down private information about students, their families, or other professionals.
To sum up, whereas online education is spreading all around the world, effectual teachers still carry on their momentous role in the education. Teachers differ greatly in their efficiency, but teachers, knowledgeable about the content of the subjects they teach; have the skills and dispositions to teach those subjects effectively, and good communicator with their environments provide the best learning opportunities for all students .
References:
• February 23, 2010 ,” Online Education Facts & Statistics : Latest Online Learning News “ (visited 3 March 2010)

• Shulman, L. (1987) “Knowledge and teaching: Foundations of the new reform. Harvard Educational Review, “ (visited 3 March 2010)

• Stronge,James H. “Qualities of Effective Teachers: Teachers as a person”
(visited 3 March 2010)

CAN WE CHANGE hUMAN NATURE?

It would appear that the speaker is correct. I absolutely agree that technology cannot change human`s nature. However, in my view, technology only can improve ways to live.
It is obvious that first mistakes had made by first human being is still doing by their sons after thousand years later. By the rime, technology has been improved; the way of killing people is changed, but not stopped. While, Son of Adam called Cain, first murder in the world, used stone for killing his brother, today`s murders are using gun ,bomb, or other weapon to kill people, instead of rock. I do not think so, technology helped people to change their violence. Maybe it is helping to change the way of doing it.
Second, millions of children and people are still hunger in the planet, Earth. Technology provided the voyage to the Moon, not to the Africa. People found the way how to preserve food, how to raise crop in a short time and in effective way. However, technology could not stop starvation. Giving food to hunger is related to the humanitarian, not related to the machines.
Lastly, peoples are driving luxury car, train or plane for traveling, living in skydivers or huge community building, and using computers or laptop to communicate over the sea, and so forth. In contrast, millions of people are still needy, poor, so technology could not stop poverty because peoples do not need any technological innovations to share their property. They just need feeling.
In sum, that technology had a chance to change humans ‘environments, not to change human`s temperaments. . All the circumstances in the life are completely related with the natural dispositions, feelings, and emotions. Do you think, one day, someone would discover a special machine to put emotion in to the people?

Effective Teacher Qualities

A new study, based on responses from more than 2,500 colleges and universities, of online education in the U.S. finds that more students than ever are taking distance learning courses —a 17 percent jump from 2007 to 2008. These findings are specific to college-level learning as the researchers found that not enough studies exist at the K-12 level. While distance education is getting much popular in the area, effectual teachers are still the key factor that influences and shapes students` life and success. Effective teachers, whose abilities help to students learn high level, and grow into a better individual, have three foremost qualities that are emerged as central: content knowledge, pedagogical skills and communication skills.
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To sum up, whereas online education is spreading all around world, effectual teachers still carry on their significant role in the education. Teachers differ greatly in their effectiveness, but teachers with three key characteristics such as subject knowledge, tutorial capabilities and good communication aptitudes are always successful.
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