Effective teaching empowers student centered, active learning which enhances intellectual character. Successful pedagogy cultivates high-quality thinking and dialogue, and impels deeper knowledge. This constructivist approach connects learning to the real world, and relies on dynamic assessments to advance achievement. By building upon prior knowledge and scaffolding learning, effective teaching allows students to construct, apply and transfer meaning. A supportive and challenging learning environment fosters these outcomes of effective teaching. Collectively, these characteristics of successful constructivist pedagogy signify that the goal of education is not an end, but rather a means encouraging the life-long process of intellectual character development. Supportive, yet, challenging learning environments that enculturate quality thinking provide ideal contexts for constructivist pedagogy and the enhancement of intellectual character. Consequently, setting high intellectual expectations and encouraging mutual respect impels thinking and learning. These conditions encourage students to take intellectual risks and, therefore, master and apply new knowledge. These environmental and social conditions support good and productive thinking and characterize effective teaching because they fortify dispositions that shape intellectual character. In my classes I will have goals for each lesson and spend the first part of that lesson communicating those goals to the class in such a way that there is no ambiguity as to what I am saying. With each of the examples above you can measure whether or not your students are reaching your expectations and then provide feedback and apply a consequence if need be. I think