Education
How to make a good teacher
What matters in schools is teachers. Fortunately, teaching can be taught
FORGET smart uniforms and small classes. The
secret to stellar grades and thriving students is teachers. One American study
found that in a single year’s teaching the top 10% of teachers impart three
times as much learning to their pupils as the worst 10% do. Another suggests
that, if black pupils were taught by the best quarter of teachers, the gap
between their achievement and that of white pupils would disappear.
But efforts to ensure that every teacher can
teach are hobbled by the tenacious myth that good teachers are born, not made.
Classroom heroes like Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” or Michelle
Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds” are endowed with exceptional, innate
inspirational powers. Government policies, which often start from the same
assumption, seek to raise teaching standards by attracting high-flying graduates
to join the profession and prodding bad teachers to leave. Teachers’ unions,
meanwhile, insist that if only their members were set free from central diktat,
excellence would follow.
Link for full Article | http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21700383-what-matters-schools-teachers-fortunately-teaching-can-be-taught-how-make-good
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan
& Co
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Future Librarianship: Innovation for Excellence (NCFL 2016) on April 23,
2016. The title of the paper is “Removing
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