Thursday, February 11, 2010
What makes a GREAT Teacher
Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
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Well, now I have a list of 4 things to strive for!
ReplyDeleteI think you are all ready there James along with the other teachers in our Academy. Not that we all should stop striving to be better teachers but Layne I see a lot of things from that list in our teachers, don't you think?
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