Link: What Makes a Great Teacher?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-makes-a-great-teacher/7841/
Just as soldiers know best what works on the ground, perhaps our educational system will re-focus on tactics instead of strategy. The top-down approach doesn’t work, given the sheer number of entities — school boards, citizens groups, unions, legislative committees, PACs, thinktanks, textbook publishers, test administrators — who have an axe to grind. As the old saying goes, everything works in Theory, but we don’t live there.Â