For a great teacher, never mediocrity be the stamp of his teaching. Students learn best when his teacher is authentic enough to teaching basic things in learning which would make his students learn by doing. Nary a teaching is effective if there is no clear-cut plan, sane strategies, and valid assessments after a unit or what.

Yes, confidence in teaching is vital to ensure effective learning. Sans the mastery of the lesson taught, of course, students will not get the skills, knowledge, values and the like that would contribute to their success towards self-actualization. Instead, they would just be wasting time and never be experiencing a meaningful learning encounter with the teacher who would rather be a good worker but teaching.

Well, not all teachers have this skills in imparting knowledge, more so, if they were lacking the passion and all to teaching. Yes, there is a need for a kind of inner strength that whatever happen along the way still he persists doing his job-- and doing it well as he can.

Mediocrity in teaching can be seen through the attitude of students toward his teaching. Instead of being motivated learners they learn to reject his style of teaching and never become learners with passion. Yes, we could not give what we did not have. We can only teach what we know and feel confident about. That is why, there is a must to ensuring mastery of the needed skills, knowledge and all before letting one to teach. With the help of experts around, a not- so- confident teacher must let himself be given all sorts of help and accept the fact that he needs other people to learning teaching effectively through sane strategies for his students' welfare.

The future of the students' learning lies in the hands of the teachers and should be given the needed support-- both not- so- confident teachers and not-so- competent students--for them to enjoy their quest to teaching and learning. Yes, confidence in teaching can be had only if you have the mastery of your subject taught, and competence by students can be had only through giving them a confident teacher.

Ensuring teachers' confidence can be had through learning and getting the needed support from experts around who would never waste time giving them the needed support. Mentors are just around; they would be more than willing to extend help. Why not let them be of help and making your students benefit from your collaborations and all?

Today's teaching calls for open-mindedness to accepting others' support than merely ignoring the solution to problems making students learning not-so-pleasant an experience. Teachers can change the scenario by changing attitudes, gaining more expertise in teaching and accepting the fact that collaboration can make wonders to effective, efficient teaching.

Achievement test results are gauged of teachers' effectiveness. Whatever the results, teachers must start from there and do the needed effort to augment or maintain the results, er surpass expectations for each teacher is accountable enough to exert effort making a difference to students' learning quest.

Yes, once we are aware of the situation we know how to deal with it, with grace and confidence.

The author is a mentor of teachers in elementary grades in the Philippines. Aside from being a grade school teacher, he is also contributing articles to magazines just to make good use of his spare time. He has joined writing contest in the past, but until now, he is dreaming of bagging an award! This is why, he is now trying his luck in this endeavor--blogging-- to find his niche and somewhere, somehow find a way of publishing a book.