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Open the Classroom Doors!
The US must do something that has never been done: look at TEACHING instead of TEACHERS. American Educator, Spring 2004 ![]()
Several decades of analysis and discussion of "good teachers" has not had any impact in the classroom. Even though a few excellent teachers have been publicized in the hope that their teaching styles will be copied, teaching as an art has not been visible and teaching methods have not improved in the average American classroom because the doors to the classroom are closed.
American Educator's Spring 2004 issue suggests that "To achieve small and continuing improvements in the average classroom requires a major shift in educators' thinking- from TEACHERS to TEACHING. rather than focusing only on evaluating the quality of teachers, the educational community must begin examining the quality of teaching...opening the classroom door." Source: "Opening the Classroom Doors: Heroes for the Good of the Profession" by James Hiebert, Ronald Gallimore, and James Stigler, AMERICAN EDUCATOR, Spring 2004 |