Professor's performance for effective teaching (Kosovo case)

The effective teaching is one of the most important component that preoccupy educational professionals worldwide, meanwhile the professors are usually the most significant factors influencing the level of effective teaching. In Kosovo, this profession has been misunderstood, due to its political and social transition. The higher education in Kosovo faces with a lack of academic quality, whereby many professors have excellent professional skills but lack pedagogical ones. There are cases when professors do not have the adequate preparation, training and skills required for the educational reforms, which in turn affects the effective teaching.The purpose of this undertaking study is to present a clear assessment of the professor's performance within higher education in Kosovo based on empirical research.The measurable parameters for this study are: examination of the international professional's efforts for implementing reforms in Kosovo; surveys on professors and students satisfactions with the higher education system; personal communications and interviews from different structures; media monitoring - articles connected to the higher education.The research findings indicate that professors in order to become as effective as possible, have to abbey with following components: awareness for their teaching role, ability to know the student's personality, ability to control their emotional stability, readiness to create a positive relationship with students, capability to adopt teaching styles needed for particular students, to be fair and consistent, to meet institutional and legal rules and regulations and other issues.Because the process of education is highly important and complicated, the profession of teaching must only be trusted to highly professional individuals and people with the necessary teaching expertise. Aside from professional skills, in order to be successful in their profession, professors must possess a wide knowledge and background of other disciplines, such as pedagogy, psychology and methodology, features without which one cannot actually transmit the knowledge to the students. In this regard, it is crucial that professors acknowledge student's personalities, exhibit stability of character, and build healthy relationships with the students.