Teacher effectiveness: the student perspective
Manny Lopez, an Oakland teacher in his 15th year of teaching, recently shared this story with members of a local parents’ listserv. Curious about what students in his Fourth Grade (bilingual) class would say, he asked them what made an effective teacher. A ten minute brainstorm produced the following ideas:
QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER
- a patient person
- a kind person
- one who is respectful of students
- one who is smart
- multilingual