Providing Effective Feedback to Learners

Description
Providing feedback to learners is a key to building and maintaining learner motivation. The right feedback can propel learners forward while improper feedback can slow progress.

Components
Providing encouragement to improve performance and maintain motivation, and dealing with positive and negative aspects of performance.

Classroom Management

Description
Establishing and maintaining a classroom climate conducive to learning is essential. This is a continuous challenge that changes yearly and is subject to the “luck of the draw.” Without this skill, teachers often become frustrated and dissatisfied with the profession.

Components
Setting up classroom rules, dealing with minor infractions, and responding to persistent behavior problems.

Tailoring Classroom Instruction to Fit Learner Needs

Description
Adapting how you teach to meet the needs of each learner is very important to effective teaching. It is also very challenging and if done properly can result in greater achievement gains.

Components
Analyzing learning problems/styles to enhance learning outcomes, use of tests and testing as a performance support tool, and dealing with low performing learners.

Fostering Learning-to-Learn Skills and Abilities

Description
Providing insights and skills to students regarding how they learn is a continuous process. Fostering this capability produces students that are better able to regulate their own learning process and who are readily able to become life-long learners.

Components
Enhancing skills and abilities related to managing the learning environment, taking tests, and understanding and remembering important information.

Facilitating Group Learning Processes

Description
Above-average achievement gains can result from group learning activities. However, these activities are difficult to plan and may require an extended period of time to implement with a particular group.

Components
Setting up groups, encouraging positive group interaction, and promoting cooperation/cohesion within a group setting.