Effects of curriculum in Teacher's Effectiveness.

Curriculum affecting teachers´ effectiveness The aim of this work is to present a brief review on how curriculum might have an impact on teachers’ effectiveness. The first part of the paper defines teachers’ effectiveness. it also presents the different definitions that curriculum in an ELT context might have. The second part of the paper provides some studies that have been carried out in some parts of the world about the effects of curriculum on teachers’ effectiveness. Teachers’ Effectiveness Effectiveness in language teaching is a very complex term to define. Some authors have attempted to provide a definition of it. Werbinska, cited by Yesilyurt (2015) describes the effectiveness of the contemporary language teacher as “an educational facilitator of learning who enables the student to learn or acquire the content by creating the best conditions for it.” There is a need to understand the characteristics of an effective teacher as (Demiroz & Ye...