The purpose of this replication and extension study was to examine how teacher delivery and student progress influenced experienced teachers’ perceptions of overall teaching effectiveness. Participants (N = 60 experienced music teachers) viewed 12 private lesson excerpts that included four separate conditions: (a) high teacher delivery and more student progress, (b) high teacher delivery and le...

Effective classroom management is not simply about intervention strategies. A positive teacher-student relationship is essential for both responding to and preventing behaviour issues. This article summarizes current thinking on classroom management, provides information and research supporting the importance of the teacher-student relationship and presents a sample of effective strategies for ...

The effective teacher is a reflective teacher who seeks to learn from a range of sources (literature, formal theory, evidence) in order to continually improve student learning. This project seeks to capture the impact on practice inherent in the collegial development of a theoretically informed framework which enables lecturers to monitor and analyse what they do to create an effective online t...

5 In a political environment in which student achievement gains are increasingly demanded, policymakers focus more than ever on teacher turnover and its potential negative effects on student learning. Nationwide, approximately 17% of teachers leave their schools every year (Planty, 2008), and the attrition rate is even higher in urban districts and schools that serve large populations of low-pe...