This month "Winning Big: Producing great students doesn't have to be a 'roll of the dice' " posits that the best teachers find ways to help all their students to "rise above the obstacles that their colleagues teaching in classrooms just 15 feet away have dubbed too insurmountable for high levels of learning."
In addition, the article suggests that it's a teacher's "mindset and behaviors" rather than a "guaranteed system" which ensures [ that is really the word which was used] "high levels and academic improvement for all".
Right now, there are "education experts" who are traveling on the taxpayer's dime, visiting high performing schools looking at systems NOT teachers' mindsets and behaviors, hoping to be able to take these "best practices" to the staffs at lower performing schools in order to promote greater academic achievement.
Will someone please make up their mind?
Is it the teacher's manner or is it the "system" of instruction they use which increases their student scores, (because in the end, it's the scores that matter[to the "powers that be"] not more in depth "humanistic" evidence of student learning)?
Please tell me teachers are not going to be asked to change their personalities in order to affect change in students in the name of "higher test scores".
