Improvement of the students’ achievement Sample Clauses

Improvement of the students’ achievement. The teacher has a primary role in the learning process (education). In order to perform this role, the teacher should be effective. According to the Polish pedagogue Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, an efficient teacher is a person who:  is a specialist in the field s/he teaches and can not only transmit the knowledge, but also awaken the students‟ interests, encourage them to self-learning and educate to independent thinking;  can take advantage of the facilities given by the technological progress;  is a kind educator of the young people and a kind adviser of the parents;  inspires educational and cultural activities of the youth and the society;  has interesting personal features and is a positive role model;  is open-minded towards the world, people, new ideas and views and wants to experiment and innovate. It is the school‟s role to help the teacher be efficient. In this handbook it is suggested that „Mentoring between teachers‟ is the best means to this end. More and more schools and school districts are employing mentoring or induction programs. Increasingly, research confirms that teacher and teaching quality are the most powerful predictors of student success. In short, principals ensure higher student achievement by assuring better teaching. To do this, effective administrators have a new teacher induction program available for all newly hired teachers, which then seamlessly becomes part of the lifelong, sustained professional development program for the district or school. What keeps a good teacher are structured, sustained, intensive professional development programs that allow new teachers to observe others, to be observed by others, and to be part of networks or study groups where all teachers share together, grow together, and learn to respect each other's work. It is beyond doubt that students can only benefit from a mentoring program in their school. They have teachers who: • focus on the students‟ needs rather than their own survival, • are less authoritarian and dominating and more reflective and disposed to continuous improvement. • are self-confident enough to use a wider range of instructional strategies and activities. In other words, they have better teachers. Since the mid-1980s a lot of research has been conducted on the impact of mentoring or induction programs on the mentees and their students‟ performance. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx from the University of Pennsylvania and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx from the University of California, Santa Xxxx, examined 1...