What is effective teaching?

Effective teaching is the action of teachers getting a comprehensive and lasting development of each student, more than would be expected, given their previous performance and the social, economic and cultural situation of their families.

This concept responds to a complex multidimensional view of the student, the teacher, the classroom, the school and the environment as an all interrelated pursued one goal: achieving maximum and complete development of all students

 Thus, it has as basic elements:

1. Improved development of the student. Stressing how important is the socio-emotional development as cognitive or psychomotor. If the goal of education is the full development of the individual, the goal is to get effective teaching

2. Equity. A teaching will be effective if it promotes the development of each and every student.
3. Durability of the effects. What is effective teaching to the extent that its beneficial effects go beyond this course or that stage. Last a lifetime.

4. Value added. Effective teaching is not measured by learning, measured by the amount of learning that has been provided by the work of teachers in the classroom. The raw data, nothing indicates