High Teacher Expectations and Motivated Learners Students who succeed have teachers who expect them to succeed. At every level in every classroom, the teachers who participated in this study said they focused on students' strengths and weaknesses with appropriate instruction. Teaching and assessing a variety of skills and capabilities also emerged as important characteristics of effective instruction, so that success or failure does not depend upon a few things that only a few students do well. At the same time, teachers and administrators must work in concert to ensure that the necessary resources are available. When students are interested in what they do, when they understand why a task is worthy of effort, they are capable of significant accomplishments.
Students tend to be motivated by and rise to the highest expectations.
Teachers must have the freedom to modify the curriculum when it is appropriate to do so. They are able to see each lesson from their students' point of view. The teacher's job is much more than delivering the curriculum. Through appropriate assessment, the teacher monitors learning, making adjustments along the way to facilitate learning or motivate students. Teachers who know the goals of the program, and understand the reading process and the purpose of the materials they use, are more likely to organize instruction effectively.