A Practical Guide to Effective Post Secondary Teaching and Learning
Chapter 1 - Creating a Positive Learning Environment
Effective teaching is often based on student perfections of positive interpersonal relationships, both with their instructor and peers.
Effective teachers:
- Establish and maintain positive rapport with students
- Are attentive and responsive to their needs
- Communicate expectations clearly
- Actively engage students with diverse ways of learning
- Give appropriate feedback on student work
- Demonstrate a genuine caring for student physical and emotional well being.
In short, it is what and how students perceive they are being treated as a major motivator for their learning and opinion on the quality of instruction they have received.