Examples of Effective Teaching.

Explicit teaching of the basic techniques of writing

At some point, all students can benefit in their development, to receive direct teaching on the basic techniques of writing as calligraphy, spelling. For many students with problems of Scripture, the difficulties in these techniques represent a major barrier to write. These students need to devote extra time to the explicit teaching and practice basic techniques.

Calligraphy 

The basic objective of the teaching of calligraphy is to help students develop a writing that is legible and fluid that is relatively fast and not cause effort. As in the reading, the fluency is important. When the students are not fluent to write and have to pay attention to the calligraphy, this interferes with other aspects of the write process. Both the italics as the printing can be effective. The teaching should include how to give shape to the letters correctly and how to hold the pencil and paper. The daily classes, short, ten to fifteen minutes, followed by application of scripture to meaningful tasks are the most effective. The fluidity in calligraphy is promoted to write with frequency and develops over time. Teaching in the primary grades, children with difficulties to write by hand, you can help prevent write problems later. In addition to this type of instruction, teachers and parents must take into account the use of word processors or other computer tools, as a means to compensate for the problems of calligraphy. 

 Spelling 

The techniques of spelling and decoding are strongly interconnected. Both require knowledge and techniques and knowledge of the phonetic spelling patterns and familiarity with words of high frequency. Therefore, the spelling is part of the teaching of reading and writing. Students with problems for read and write usually need explicit teaching and intensive decoding and spelling, which emphasize the relations and patterns between sound and symbol. When writing, the practice of "spelling inventiveness" in the primary grades, help students develop their perception and phonetic knowledge. Instructional methods that emphasize the patterns of spelling to group words with a similar pattern are effective. In addition to education, students need opportunities to practice how to spell words from the list and in the context of drafting.

EXAMPLE 2

The reason why these students reach higher programming that their peers are found mainly in the educational practices developed by their teachers in the work of their managers and in the effort of the school community. Discovering and describing such practices was the central focus of the study

The main areas of interest in the study were the pedagogical practices of classroom (communication between the teacher and the students, teaching resources they use, use of time, teaching-learning techniques, etc.); dynamics of institutional management (how decisions are taken, priorities of the school, planning and evaluation of educational work, support given to teachers and pupils, etc.); management of discipline and school life; expectations and visions of the members of the school community; relationship with families; history of the school and work with the programs for the improvement of the educational reform