The Importance Of Teacher Effectiveness

Most of us will consider beyond dispute the importance of teachers in achieving a strong educational background but often fail to consider the long lasting and significant impact they provide to the world. It is believed that teachers have so much power they can “influence and shape America’s future by impacting how much a student will ultimately earn, or prepare the next great mind to change the world” (Parker, Suzi 2012). During my whole life as a student I have experienced teachers of all kinds. Some of which have made the process of learning unsatisfying and unbearable, while others have influenced me to find and pursue my passions to form the person I am today. As most of us probably would have noticed, there are different kinds of teachers

Additionally, the study does not seem to have a strong argument for many of its characteristics but feels as if the findings were incomplete or largely contradictive depending on the population of teachers. This has left me wondering if other factors, such as does the previous article mentioned, also play a role in teacher effectiveness and not taking them into account would not yield accurate results. Overall, the Center for Public Education gave me a clearer picture of how researchers arrive at their conclusions and recommendations for teacher effectiveness but at the same left me thinking on how subjective it is to measure teacher effectiveness and arrive at certain characteristics or factors that influence them. Having a somewhat clearer idea of what researchers define as the quality and effectiveness of a teachers, I proceeded with my investigation focusing on how exactly teachers can affect student development and in what

Determined to find out the answer to my question, I thought it would be a good idea to next examine how students are benefited by the quality of teacher. By plugging “Teacher Quality” and “Student Achievement in School” into Google, I located an article titled “Teacher Quality” written in Education Week Magazine. In this magazine article, the editor narrates how past researched have used students’ annual rates of improvement (measured by test scores) to uncovered that effective teachers are capable of inspiring significantly greater learning gains in their students when compared to their weaker colleagues. The article also states that there are many factors that may influence student achievement, but that teacher quality is the most important factor that can be manipulated by the school system. It is believed that a teacher “is estimated to have two to three times the impact of any other school factor, including services, facilities, and even leadership”. Furthermore, this assertion is also supported by the scholarly article “Teacher quality and student achievement: Research review” found in the webpage of Center for Public Education. The webpage explains that the power of effective teachers is so great, it can enrich the daily lives of children as well as their lifelong educational and career aspirations. They not only inspire students to play with ideas, think deeply about the subject matter, and take on