To be sincere, Teaching Experience and Teacher Effectiveness was the most important prerequisite for me since I understood that teachers who are both experienced and effective are experts who know the content and students they teach, use efficient planning strategies, practice interactive decision-making, and embody effective classroom management skills. These experienced and effective teachers are efficient –they can do more in less time than novice educators. However, novice teachers can work in the same range of effectiveness if they propose themselves to their best in every class. Therefore, the number of years in front of a classroom of students may not necessarily indicate that a teacher is expert. For example, a the teacher whom I worked with in the kindergarten last semester told me that I looked as if I was an experienced teacher and she also noticed that I liked teaching English. Though experience and awareness, teachers are able to improvise. Flexibility and adaptability are sometimes better than a well-written lesson plan because classrooms are dynamic. So we teachers need to be open to changes and we need also enjoy teaching. To summarize, I considered this prerequisite as one of the most important because experienced teachers tend to know and understand their students’ learning needs, learning styles, prerequisite skills, and interest better than beginners, and the classroom of more experienced teachers are better organized around routines and plans for handling problems than those of novices.
