Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) by Elizabeth Green

Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)



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Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) Elizabeth Green ebook
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Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780393081596
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Mar 8, 2010 - Elizabeth Green's excellent "Building a Better Teacher" addresses the three (or four-legged) stool required for improving instruction. Oct 24, 2013 - Riggs noted that teachers tend to bow out because of poor salaries as well as “overall job dissatisfaction,” caused by factors such as a lack of administrative support and/or conditions necessary to teach effectively. Indeed, everyone gets what he or she gets—there is no viable alternative. May 5, 2014 - Elevating the status of the teaching profession by raising quality and admissions standards would attract better teachers, Crotty argues. But some parents seem to have a problem with teachers. Sep 1, 2013 - Many parents are friendly, supportive, and eager to work with teachers to make sure their children get the best possible education. 4 days ago - The new, proposed senate pay scale is built to soothe middle-career teachers. What if we have it backwards that it really is up to the teachers to build real relationships with students, to understand where they come from (vs where the teacher comes from) before many kids will step it up. One teacher organizes single-sex conversations among scientists and students, so that relationships are build on interest in science, as well as gender identity. It is designed to work them through twenty years of service and then quietly encourage them to leave teaching by keeping their salaries flat. Mar 21, 2014 - At another discussion, teachers buzzed with agreement when a panel of physicists called for greater visibility of female scientist role models to inspire more girls to pursue science. Green recounts Given the excellence that already exists in many systems for teaching classroom management, Why do we need a third (or fourth) leg for improving instruction? May 18, 2012 - Narrator: To prepare new teachers for work in challenging urban environments, Bank Street partners with schools like PS65, an under-resourced elementary school in the Bronx, that's now thriving with Bank Street graduate Tashon McKeithen at the . 2 days ago - Instructional coaching expert Jim Knight offers some great tools to help teachers improve, but in this era of accountability our focus on bad ideas may prevent us from seeing the good ones like Jim offers. It takes everyone working together to have a good educational outcome for kids. I'm glad that so many women among this year's winners are modeling our passion for STEM for the young girls we teach. If we want reflective educators, teachers who think, we must make sure that teachers are free to make meaningful decisions about what and how they teach." It's important that everyone on the team, and I mean everyone, steps outside of their comfort zone. Just watching this video makes me want to go check out this school or even teach there for a year to gain more knowledge and to become a better teacher.

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