Skills & Qualifications of an effective teacher:

• Verbal ability
• coursework in pedagogy
• knowledge of special needs students
• teacher certification
• content knowledge of specific subjects taught

Personal Traits of an effective teacher:

• Positive and caring attitude
• Fairness and respect for students
• Enthusiasm
• Dedication and reflective teaching

Skills of an effective teacher:

• Classroom management skills
• Instructional planning
• Allocating time for academics
• Keeping students engaged
• Using appropriate instructional strategies
• Correctly sequencing instruction
• Questioning strategies
• Monitoring learning and differentiating learning for individual students

Below are web links of interest to school administrators:

• US Students score high on international study: The Progress in Reading Literacy
• Need help in helping new teachers? The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory website offers information to administrators on guiding new teachers.
• National Association of Elementary School Principals
• National Middle School Association
• National Association of Secondary School Principals
• The School Improvement KnowlegeBase - A web site with resources to help districts and schools meet NCLB requirements.
• The Special Education and Medicaid KnowledgeBase - A must site for special education directors, principals, and superintendents.
• Education on the Web - a self-contained searchable database of human indexed Education related web sites.
• The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) offers information-gathering tools -- ranging from checklists to surveys, both online and forms -- to help educators collect data about their classrooms, school district, and much more. The tools can be used to help gather data to make decisions impacting your school, teachers, and school district.
• No More Flying Blind - Using Data Driven Decision-Making to Guide Student Learning
• The Smart Library to Closing the Achievement Gaps
• Parent Involvement - Principals share their ideas
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Community Engagement and Volunteerism Resources for K-12

For salary reports and other data, check out the Reports section of the web site.

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