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Abstract
Through personal experience and professional relationships, I have identified ten basic characteristics of effective teachers: good prior academic performance, communication skills, creativity, professionalism, pedagogical knowledge, thorough and appropriate student evaluation and assessment, self-development or lifelong learning, personality, talent or content area knowledge, and the ability to model concepts in their content area. Colwell further offered this set of research-based, more effective assumptions: professional development should be perpetual if it is to be effective; school change is the result of external and internal organization and personal development; teachers learn in a cycle of demonstration, practice, and feedback; and development should be integrated into the job.
