"Building a Better Teacher" Elizabeth Green/New York Times 3/2/10
Essential reading along with "What Makes a Great Teacher?" The Atlantic January/February 2010, on which I commented earlier. Like the Atlantic article, this one includes wonderful videos that show good teachers in the classroom and what they do. Not just theoretical, but practical.
Green quotes a professor from the school of education at Michigan State, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, who says, "Teaching depends on what other people think, not what you think." This brought to mind my recent post that connected John Medina's hypothesis of the essential quality of a good teacher--a heightened awareness of what others are thinking, or theory of mind--to All Kinds of Minds' CEO Mary-Dean Barringer suggesting training teachers "to understand, identify, and address learning variation" in Education Week.
And it also made me think about a reference Robert Brooks made at the recent Learning and the Brain Conference in San Francisco to Julius Segal and his emphasis on the importance of the "charismatic adult."
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