The Effective Teacher Part 3 Discipline and Procedures by Harry Wong

        Effective teachers strive to motivate and engage all their students in learning rather than simply accepting that some students cannot be engaged and are destined to do poorly.

       They believe every student can achieve success at school and they do all they can to find ways of making each student successful. Effective teachers have high expectations of students in terms of both their standard of learning and their behavior, and they help their students meet those expectations. They also have high expectations of themselves and their own learning.

Effective teachers personalize the learning for their students. They understand that students develop at different rates and that in every classroom there will be a range of student abilities and attitudes. They accommodate the different needs of students in their class rather than pitch their teaching to the middle, letting some students be bored while others struggle or are unable to do the work.

Effective teachers use techniques that have each student working on tasks that engage and challenge them to achieve their personal best. They understand that students learn best when they are presented with new material in a way that enables them to connect it to what they already understand and know how to do.

Effective teachers also understand that students learn best if their culture, background and abilities are acknowledged by the teacher in the way they teach.