Principles of Effective Teaching<br /> <br />Mazin Hadi Kzar<br />Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, 51001 Hillah, Babil, Iraq<br />[email protected]<br />There are many techniqules, skills, and practices that can make a teacher effective. In my opinion, being an effective teacher means allowing an environment that enables students to learn in the classroom to their best abilities. When effective teaching is practiced, students develop a love for learning and gain new knowledge about what they are studying. Effective teaching can stem from many different practices and ideas such as attitude toward subject matter, implementing different learning styles into lessons, and being passionate about the subject being taught. All of these ideas can help a teacher become more effective in the classroom. It is true that effective teaching also allows students to better understand new material and difficult content.Effective teaching takes time and effort. <br />Being a teacher means making several decisions concerning planning for instruction, developing teaching strategies, and evaluating outcomes of lesson plans. After a lesson is taught, it is crucial to make note if any changes are necessary for next time. If the lesson was successful, the teacher will know to keep using that strategy in the future. <br />An effective way to help students in the learning process is to make the content meaningful. For this to take place “the teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline he or she teachers and creates learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students” (INTASC Principles). I believe that teaching the content in a way that students can relate to or in some way apply it into their own life will help them to understand it. <br />Keywords: principles,effect,teaching