Students will create a list of characteristics which describe an effective teacher. The teacher understands how learning occurs and can apply this understanding to design and implement effective instruction. The teacher uses a variety of instructional strategies and roles to facilitate learning and to help students become independent thinkers and problem solvers who use higher-order thinking in the classroom and the real world.
Teachers have little impact on learning.
The study looked only at school averages and not at individual teachers. The study only showed correlations between variables and not cause-effect relationships. This research approach reduced effective teaching to a list of behaviors. If a teacher mechanically performed these behaviors in class, then supposedly the students would learn. In class we examined the Student-Teacher Evaluation Form used at the University of Texas at Austin.