A Profile of the Effective Teacher: Greek Secondary Education Teachers' Perceptions

Autor/in	Koutrouba, Konstantina
Titel	A Profile of the Effective Teacher: Greek Secondary Education Teachers' Perceptions
Quelle	In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (2012) 3, S.359-374 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-9768
DOI	10.1080/02619768.2011.654332
Schlagwörter	Educational Strategies; Personality Traits; Teacher Effectiveness; Secondary School Teachers; Factor Analysis; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Education; Questionnaires; Humor; Teacher Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Curriculum; Profiles; Foreign Countries; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrstrategie; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Faktorenanalyse; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Fragebogen; Humoristische Darstellung; Schulleistung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Ausland; Griechenland
Abstract	This paper examines the perceptions of Greek secondary education teachers on effectiveness in teaching. Through a structured questionnaire, 340 teachers reported their views on the tactics which are considered to contribute to effective teaching and on the behaviour and personal traits attributed to effective teachers. Descriptive and factor analysis showed that teacher flexibility in knowledge dissemination and sociability in communication, the display of friendliness, open-mindedness, tactfulness, supportiveness, respect and humour, are considered, among others, to be outstanding attributes of an effective teacher. However, the inflexibility of Greek curricula and their obsession with academic performance objectives discourage teachers from implementing effective instructional strategies, from establishing real human relationships with their students and from displaying behaviour and developing personal traits attributed to effective teachers. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10