Skills

Skill Assessment Options

The Skills Profiler includes the following teaching skill areas:


Providing Effective Feedback to Learners (detailed description)

Classroom Management (detailed description)

Tailoring Classroom Instruction to Fit Learner Needs (detailed description)

Facilitating Learning-to-Learn Skills and Abilities (detailed description)

Fostering Group Learning Processes (detailed description)

Providing Effective Feedback to Learners

Description

Providing feedback to learners is a key to building and maintaining learner motivation. The right feedback can propel learners forward while improper feedback can slow progress.

Components

Providing encouragement to improve performance and maintain motivation, and dealing with positive and negative aspects of performance.

Classroom Management

Description

Establishing and maintaining a classroom climate conducive to learning is essential. This is a continuous challenge that changes yearly and is subject to the "luck of the draw." Without this skill, teachers often become frustrated and dissatisfied with the profession.

Components

Setting up classroom rules, dealing with minor infractions, and responding to persistent behavior problems.

Tailoring Classroom Instruction to Fit Learner Needs

Description

Adapting how you teach to meet the needs of each learner is very important to effective teaching. It is also very challenging and if done properly can result in greater achievement gains.

Components

Analyzing learning problems/styles to enhance learning outcomes, use of tests and testing as a performance support tool, and dealing with low performing learners.

Facilitating Learning-to-Learn Skills and Abilities

Description

Analyzing learning problems/styles to enhance learning outcomes, use of tests and testing as a performance support tool, and dealing with low performing learners.

Components

Enhancing skills and abilities related to managing the learning environment, taking tests, and understanding and remembering important information.

Fostering Group Learning Processes

Description

Above-average achievement gains can result from group learning activities. However, these activities are difficult to plan and may require an extended period of time to implement with a particular group.

Components

Setting up groups, encouraging positive group interaction, and promoting cooperation/cohesion within a group setting.