Vital behaviors that separate the top performing teachers from the rest

Vital behaviors that separate the top performing teachers
from the rest

What Dr. Ethna Reid learned from her five-year study is that the following two behaviors are vital to the top performing teachers' teaching. In order to make students perform at higher levels, teachers should take these two behaviors into account.

• 1. Top performers reward positive performance far more frequently than their counterparts. Bottom performers quickly become discouraged and mutter things such as, "Didn't I just teach you that two minutes ago?" The best consistently reinforce even moderately good performance, and learning flourishes.
• 2. Another vital behavior they found is that top performers rapidly alternate between teaching and questioning or otherwise testing. Then, when required, they make immediate corrections. Poor performers drone on for a long time and then let the students struggle, often leaving students to repeat the same errors.

(cited from Influencer: The Power to Change Anything)