Learning Styles

Journal 3 Why Students Matter

The effective teachers are perceived to be fully equipped naturally and professionally to lead their students to success in competitive standardized tests, as well as inculcate in them, values that would make them exhibit behaviors that are generally desirable and acceptable.
On the other hand, the ineffective teachers do not care about the success of their students in examinations and in some cases students who pass through such teachers, especially in terms of emulating their life styles, tend to exhibit behaviors that are detestable by the society Teacher effectiveness influences students’ academic performance. It is not however, very easy to investigate the area of effectiveness in teaching because many hold the view that the concept has.
Even, from among those who hold the views that teacher quality should be assessed by student outcomes however, arguments could be made for an emphasis on different types of student outcomes.

Teacher quality can be gauged by short- term outcomes such as students’ performance on state standardized tests at the end of the period prescribed for a given academic programs.
Long-term outcomes may be much more difficult to measure but some might argue that the best teachers are those who somehow improve students’ educational trajectories in some important ways. In other words, teacher quality is multi-dimensional and complex in nature and can be measured. Perkins (1974) said that, there is little or no agreement on the criteria that should be used for judging effectiveness in teaching or on how the effectiveness of teaching can be measured. He however, agreed that it is only when the various approaches used to define and measure teaching effectiveness are examined that one would be able to gain a clearer understanding of the concept. Advocating the various ways to measure