Effective Teaching

To be an effective teacher is to invest yourself into making a difference in the lives of the students you teach. An effective teacher inspires his/her students with the importance of learning and the freedom of creativity. They provide opportunities for learning by managing information in a way that allows students to attain knowledge and to intellectually, socially, physically, emotionally and spiritually develop to their full potential (Barry and King, 1998:6). Teachers however are not superhuman, though some may think they should be. Teaching is a vocation that requires constant updating of knowledge content and teaching skills (pedagogy); constantly re-evaluating and striving for better methods to accommodate student learning.
Teaching does not predetermine learning: teacher effectiveness is therefore dependent upon the symbiotic relationship which exists between content knowledge and pedagogical ability; one can not exist in isolation of the other. A teacher can have al...