An effective teacher must master the professional skills necessary to deliver a high-quality 21st-century education to their students. In this blog post, I will discuss the importance of effective learning for the 21st-century. At the heart of education for the 21st-century is effective learning. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, learning is defined as “the knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study.” Students usually acquire knowledge and skills in school

An effective teacher must master the professional skills necessary to deliver a high-quality 21st-century education to their students. In this blog post, I will discuss the importance of caring, trust, and empathy as necessary components for effective teaching. Caring for students can be seen in teachers' attitudes, values, and beliefs about students expressed both verbally and nonverbally. In other words, caring is a "point of convergence" between what the teacher believes a

An effective teacher must master the professional skills necessary to deliver a high-quality 21st-century education to their students. In this blog post, I will discuss the importance of knowing the students we teach. One of the cardinal rules of effective teaching is to "know your students." This is because a deep understanding of the individuals we teach is essential to forming positive relationships. According to William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell in their book, How to

An effective teacher must master the professional skills necessary to deliver a high-quality 21st-century education to their students. In this blog post, I will discuss the importance of teachers' content pedagogical knowledge. Besides having solid content knowledge and general pedagogical knowledge, educational psychologist Lee Shulman (1986) postulates that content pedagogical knowledge, or CPK, is the third major component of teaching expertise. CPK is the intersection of