The best teachers…
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Build relationships with students.
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Know when a student is successful.
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Have sufficient understanding of the student’s understanding.
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Demonstrate a willingness to explain material and help students with their
work.
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Know enough about the content to provide meaningful and challenging
experiences.
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Passion reflects the thrills as well as the frustrations of learning.
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It requires more than content knowledge, acts of skilled teaching or
engaged students to make the difference—it requires a love of the discipline
being taught.
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Provide clear learning intentions
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Provide challenging success criteria
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Use a range of teaching strategies
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Know when students are not progressing
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Provide feedback
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Visibly learn themselves.
In their everyday practices they ask:
Who did I teach well, who not so well?
What did I teach well, what not so well?
Where are the gaps/strengths or achieved/to be
achieved?
Expert teachers don’t rely on what has been done before,
but question, interrogate, challenge and seek improvement.
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