During my time as principal, this has been the most difficult change to make. I think that the teacher is the key to educational change, but teachers need self development and growth in self esteem, in order to make changes in school practice. First I studied learning disabilities. I found that really every student can learn something despite their disability, background, or location. Encouragement plays a big part in helping students to learn.
Students start to learn easy things and gradually more difficult content is added.
In this way they build confidence and become self-motivated. Teachers learned to spend more time encouraging student participation. During lessons, student activity can occupy up the two thirds of the class time. Teachers need to tell students how they are performing. This fast feedback turns abstract progress into concrete outcomes, arouses student interest and allows teachers to find existing problems among children, so they can adjust speed, improve effectiveness and avoid missing important ideas.