What makes the difference between teaching that works and teaching that fails? The factor that contributes the most is the quality of the teacher-student relationship. It’s more important than what the teacher is teaching or who the teacher is trying to teach.
Teacher Effectiveness Training (T.E.T.) offers teachers the essential communication and conflict resolution skills they need to have high quality relationships with their students so there will be less conflict and more teaching-learning time. This model has worked for hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world.
Dr. Thomas Gordon (1918-2002) was an American clinical psychologist, best known for his Gordon Method, primarily a method to improve relationships between parents and children that was later developed into a general communication method to improve all relationships: parents-children, teachers-pupils, employers-workers, and also relationships between teenagers.
Dr. Thomas Gordon was the founder of Gordon Training International Foundation and the model “Gordon” is used successfully world-wide. He has written nine books, published in 28 languages in total print of over six million copies.
Dr. Gordon has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1999 he was awarded with the Gold Medal Award of the American Psychological Foundation for enduring contribution to the field of psychology. He was also the recipient of the 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award of the California Psychological Association.
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