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Content: By utilizing
ongoing information on achievement, teachers can maintain consistent and
challenging expectations for all students. Students and parents should be
informed of the students' progress toward achieving district goals and
objectives
through comments on individual work, progress reports, conferencing, report
cards, and other measures. Students should be encouraged to participate in
self-assessment as a way of motivating students to improve academic
achievement. Instructional Strategies
When
a profession deals with people, cause-and-effect relationships are never identified
as certainties, only as possibilities. Therefore, there are no certainties in
teaching. It is a situational process requiring constant decision-making which,
when properly implemented, increases the probability of learning. Research on
teacher effectiveness has been intensified in the last two decades. The results
have helped identify an instructional process that provides a solid and basic
framework for planning instruction which is helpful in guiding the
administrator in what to look for when visiting a classroom. These steps
include planning, preparing, presenting the lesson, monitoring student
progress, and conducting practice sessions. Planning the Lesson
Formulating
a well-defined objective of the lesson is a critical first step as it provides
the direction and framework for the decisions which will follow.