Hallmarks of Quality
Teaching
Dr.Timothy L. Heaton
Associate Professor of Education
Cedarville University
[email protected]
Research on Quality
Teaching
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Enthusiasm: Nonverbal behavior to get student’s attention
Clarity: Concepts/Principles are explained in student’s language
Interaction: techniques to foster student’s class participation
Organization: ways of structuring class to do most time on task
Pacing: rate of information presented/efficient use of time
Disclosure: grading criteria/ tell what needs to be learned
Speech: control, delivery, effectiveness
Rapport: quality of interpersonal relations with teacher/students
Relevance: bridges made between course content and the world
Learning Centered: focuses on student learning and mastery
Flexibility: open to change; diverse ways to do things
Leadership: models good behavior, intellectual rigor and respect
for differences.
Setting the Stage for
Teaching
1. Establish a Quiet Signal/ Wait for 100%
participation
2. Assign to Groups by Color Cards ( 4-6 people
per group)
3. Give Directions and Roles to Play (
Policeman/Time Keeper/Gofor/Discussion
Leader/ Recorder/etc.
4. Have a time limit to do task and a concrete
task to complete which you can evaluate.
Getting to Know You
• Build a relationship with your students.
• Use bulletin boards about you and then
about them.
• Schedule lunches with students
• Look at files/check for health/learning
problems.
• Use Note cards( fill out info)
• Use Inside/Outside Circle
Inside/Outside Circle
• In this activity share information
about yourself, as well as some
interesting fact about yourself.
• You will be asked to share about
some of the people you meet when
we return to class.
• In your group share how to use this
activity in the academic setting.
Personal Hallmarks that
Indicate Character
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Passionate about your Mission:
What’s the mission of your school?
Why are you a teacher there?
What are your goals for each child?
What is meant by covering material
vs. uncovering it?
Personal Hallmarks that
Indicate Character
• Are you every
child’s advocate?
• How do you help
your children be
successful in their
learning/social
development?
• What is the
difference
between schooling
and educating?
• How can you keep
the excitement of
teaching alive?
Personal Hallmarks that
indicate character
• Respectful, Caring,
Empathetic, Fair,
Positive and
Authentic
• Use the personal
question.
• Go the extra mile
with home visits and
going to games and
special activities.
• A teacher-leader
• Knows their weaknesses
and strengths and uses
them to assist parents
and students.
• Make positive phone calls.
• Blame shifting instead of
asking Why.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that get results
• Establish a Quiet
Signal
• A day or week at a
glance
• Post all assignments
• 3-5 rules or
courtesies
• Establish routines for
everything.
• (vary only slightly
throughout the year)
• Establish a discipline
plan
• With positive
reinforcement.
Catch them being
good!
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Results
• Engage Students in
the learning
process by
establishing
curiosity and
finding answers.
• Set your
expectations for
learning and don’t
back down…just
find different
ways to approach
getting the result.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Results
• Be consistent and
model everything for
the students.
• If you do not
consistently begin
your class on time,
then your students
will not begin on work
immediately either.
• Sell your product so
they will buy it.
• Use their
environment and
things they are
interested in as much
as possible when and
where appropriate.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Result
• Style: Find your own teaching style…but
make sure you include humor, creativity,
novelty, and that there is substance in
your teaching.
• Two extremes in teaching which are
ineffective: All content/no personality
and All personality/no content.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Results
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No down time!
Use the glare!
Proximity
Variation in Voice
( Be a teacher not
a screecher)
• No tunnel vision
• Discipline privately
• Principal is the last
resort
• Document,
Document,
Document.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Results
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Desk at back of room
Soft-soled shoes
Read upside down and sideways
Circulate, Circulate, Circulate.
One at the desk at a time.
Self-control of emotions
When you discipline a student have them
contact parent before they go home and talk
to that parent….don’t wait until the parent
calls you.
Hallmarks of Teaching
that Get Results
• Expect the Best of your Students in
Behavior and Academic Achievement
and tell them this!
• Use Bonus Bucks as a way of escape
(Token Economy)
• Using Alternative Assessment/Extra
Credit to motivate.
Instructional
Effectiveness
• Quality Teachers
must have excellent
communication skills
as well as essential
teaching skills.
• Establish the
following for each
lesson:
• 1. What’s important?
• 2. Why is it
important?
• 3. Which method is
the best?
• 4. How can I best
evaluate?
Instructional
Effectiveness
• Research shows: Use an anticipatory set,
use direct teaching methods, and then give
closure.
• As an old preacher once said:” I give 3
point sermons:
• I tell them what I am going to tell them.
• Then I tell them.
• Then I tell them what I told them.”
Hallmarks of Intellectual
Development
Do you read and what
do you read?
Professional journals?
Do students remember
you reading to them
or seeing you read?
• Do you read about
how children learn?
• Are you competent
enough to teach
without a textbook?
• Can you find the
essential
skills/knowledge
needed and cover it
in two weeks instead
of a semester?
Hallmarks of Intellectual
Development
• Reading to Learn and Listening to Learn.
• Current Events, Teen magazines, movies,
TV shows, Music, Music, Music!
• What’s a mirl? What’s a Foam party?
What’s special about Special K? Is Reliant
K a car?
Hallmarks of Intellectual
Development
• Metacognition:
Understanding how
you think and
becoming an active
problem solver and
self-directed learner.
• Strategic:
• Use higher order
thinking skills:
Bloom’s Taxonomy:
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Synthesis
Reflective and Responsive
Teachers are hallmarks of
Quality Teachers
• What went wrong
with my lesson and
how can I do it
better next time?
• Communicate to
others about your
beliefs and passions
about education
• Adapt to change
quickly.
• Stay ahead of the
learning curve.
• Be optimistic
• Have a teachable
spirit.
• Desire to be
stretched.
The End
• This is only the end of this seminar, but it is the
beginning for you to change a life, to impact a
future, to make a difference in the world. Are
you willing to take up this challenge or will you let
the status quo reign? Martin Luther King
challenged the status quo and made a difference.
Mother Teresa modeled love and compassion and
made a difference, Harriett Tubman lived out her
life as a model for others to follow, and Clara
Barton showed the world how to break the mold
and make an impact. Being a Quality teacher can
make all the difference in the world.
The Teacher
• He never taught a lesson in a classroom…He had no
tools to work with, such as blackboards, maps or
charts… He used no subject outlines, kept no
records, gave no grades, and His only text was
ancient and well-worn… His students were the poor,
the lame, the deaf, the blind, the outcast-and His
method was the same with all who came to hear and
learn… He opened eyes with faith… He opened ears
with simple truth…and opened hearts with love, a
love born of forgiveness…A gentle man, a humble
man, He asked and won no honors, no gold awards of
tribute to His expertise or wisdom… And yet this
quiet teacher from the hills of Galilee has fed the
needs, fulfilled the hopes, and changed the lives of
many millions… For what He taught brought
• heaven to earth and revealed God’s heart to
mankind.