STACK THE DECK IN FAVOR OF YOUR

STUDENT BY USING THE FOUR ACE

OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING

NAME
: SITI AISHAH BINTI AZMI (2013434436)
GROUP
: ED2474B
PREPARED FOR: EN. MUHAMAD FURKAN MAT SALLEH
EN. MOHAMAD HISYAM ISMAIL

The Author
Sean M. Bulger (Associate professor, University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Derek J. Mohr (Prof at Appalaichian State University)
Richard T. Walls (Prof Educational Psychology, West
Virgina University)
Journal published in 2002

About this article?

To describe the four aces of effective teaching, as a guidance
for teacher to improve their instructional methods in teaching.
Give further explanation of teaching strategy based on
Literature research on Teacher Effectiveness.
Rosenshine & Furst (1973) wrote the major research,
conclude 5 major teacher effectiveness variable are
Clarity, Variability, Enthusiasm, Task-oriented, and Learn
criterion material

Outcome / Objective
Benefit to student?
Student will more focus on learning goals
Give direction to student
Benefit to teacher?
Used to assess student understanding
Evaluate their own instructional effectiveness

Clarity
Teacher need to be good in deliver the content of
knowledge.
Teacher need to have clear communicate information
to student (Grice & Skinner, 2010)
HOW???

Provide good example

Illustration
Used simple word
Have discussion time with student

Engagement
Teacher need to engage with student in ENTIRE
LESSON (introduction, body, closure of lesson)
Limit lecture session less than 30 minutes, and make
some activity (Walls & Cather, 1987).
Why need engagement?
Focus and engage with lesson
Increase their motivation
Avoid student to being bored and ignored

Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm = strong feeling of active, interest on
something.
If teacher are very excited or enjoy in teaching,
student will excited to learn
Teacher genuinely shows their care towards student,
tend to gain student cooperation (Jones & Jones,
2010)

Comment
Agree with author point teacher not only good / expert in
knowledge subject matter, but need to be good in instructional
skill.
Relate with our course subject (Curriculum and Instruction)
we can applied these four aces in our microteaching task.
To fulfill need of PPPM (Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan
Malaysia) teacher need to improve teaching skill as to
produce product (student) with high qualities.

CONCLUSION
In order to create effective learning
environment, teacher need to improve
their instructional skill, thus Malaysian
education will produce student with
complete aspect of intellectual, spiritual,
emotional and physical in future.