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Study Papers | Arts Education | India | Volume 12 Issue 8, August 2023 | Rating: 4.9 / 10
Teacher Effectiveness and Factors Promoting Teacher Effectiveness
Ashaq Ahmad Ganai
Abstract: The usefulness and effectiveness of the education system largely depend upon active, resourceful, competent, and effective teachers. Teachers? competence, capability, and effectiveness make a school good or bad, flourishing or deteriorating. So the quality of teaching depends upon the efficiency of the teacher. One can say that teacher effectiveness is the capability of teachers to teach in such a manner that he/she is successful in bringing the desirable change in the student?s behavior. It is assessed not only from the academic pursuits and classroom teaching of the teacher but from the sum total influences exerted by the teacher upon the students. It is well known that effective teaching results in positive outcomes. It has been recognized that the better personality of the teacher and a healthy attitude towards his work contributes to effective and efficient teaching. The effectiveness of a teacher lies not only in the presentation of his subject matter in an effective way but to make the whole environment of the classroom conducive for learning ensuring all round development of a child. Teachers shape the child which ultimately leads to the development of a nation for that purpose teachers should not only teach but their teaching should be effective. Teachers not only teach the students but they are the role models of their students so they should be effective teachers in all respects. This paper sheds light on teacher effectiveness and factors promoting teacher effectiveness. It further gives some suggestions through which teacher effectiveness could be increased.
Keywords: Teacher effectiveness, content knowledge, instructional delivery, pedagogies, learning outcome, resourceful
Edition: Volume 12 Issue 8, August 2023,
Pages: 1389 - 1392