The good teachers - what do they?

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Some teachers are really good, they get pupils to yta their best and to learn the incredible amount. What makes them to achieve this? How to teach them? What happens in the classroom? What questions they ask?

In the article What Makes a Great Teacher? include some specific tips:

Great teachers, ... constantly reevaluate what They are doing.
Superstar teachers HAD Four Other tendencies in common:
- They avidly recruited student and Their family bug against the process;
- They maintained focus, ensuring everything That They did contributed two student learning;
- They Planned exhaustively and purpose-fully for the next day or the year ahead-by working backward from the Desired outcome, and
- They worked relentlessly, refusing two surrender two combined the Menace of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.

In addition, one can find these tips:
Smart work, not hard work.
Is there better methods? Can we learn our theme of a better way?

I do - we do - you do (demo, practice, practice).
Review of teaching, practice in class, practicing alone.

Routines and expectations. Procedures are practiced in and things happen by itself. This applies for instance starting today, the start of hours, change of activity, reading, etc. In addition: the common expectations of what happens during activities or situations.

Group with specific work assignments and group leader.

Hand signal, eg own hand signal to ask to go to the bathroom.

Activities and games focusing on topics / learning.

"Exit Slip" - summary? Problem-based learning / task to sum up / concluded hour.

For more tips, read the article (3 pages) and see the video here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/good-teaching

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