Teacher EffectivenessGroup Members:

J.P. Espinoza, Kim Hackworth, Erik Hollis, Isaiah Locke, Jacob Moeller

“9 Essential Instructional Strategies”

1. Identifying similarities and differences

2. Summarizing and note taking

3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition

“9 Essential Instructional Strategies”

4. Homework and practice

5. Nonlinguistic representations

6. Cooperative learning

“9 Essential Instructional Strategies”

7. Setting objectives and providing feedback

8. Generating and testing hypotheses

9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers.

Teachers

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Average of # of Teachers

Strategies

One * * * * 4/7

Two * * * * 4/7

Three * * 2/7

Four * * * * * * * 7/7

Five * * * * * 5/7

Six * 1/7

Seven * * * * * * 6/7

Eight * * * * * * 6/7

Nine * * 2/7

Ideas for ChangeThrough our research, my colleagues and I have

determined that something must be done about the lack of quality teachers. Many administrators may say that classes and workshops are the way to go, but we beg to differ. Simply remembering that at the end of the day, we are all humans, may be enough. Connect with students on a personal level in order to connect on a higher educational level. We wish to send a message to all teachers: You were children once too, incorporate that fact into your teaching. You don't have to be our best friends, just understand that we are learning not only about Columbus and Pre Calculus, but about ourselves as people too.