What Makes a Quality Teacher? Exploring the Qualifications of Becoming an Effective Teacher

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Pedagogy - The Teacher, Educational Leadership, grade: 2, Philippine Normal University, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the fight for quality education, teachers' qualifications and how to measure a teacher's effectiveness. The quality of an education system depends on the quality of their teachers, and the quality teachers depend on the quality of teacher policies. Teacher policies are the regulations and principles of action of the school and education system that shape the teaching force and what teachers do. The education system provides various strategies to equip the teachers to be more capable in their work environment. For more than a decade in the Department of Education, I have seen distinct stories and struggles of teachers to reach the learner's attention and capture their hearts. Teachers provide many opportunities to the learners as well as many experiences that the learners may need in the future. Thus, the teacher opts for various ways to become more effective for their learners. The measurement for the effectiveness of a teacher is by student achievement, and achievement increases as standardized test scores of students also increase. The effective teacher touches the heart of their learners; they can make a deep difference in the lives of their learners.