"Building a Better Teacher"

The article I had read was called “Building a Better Teacher” by Elizabeth Green. This article tells us that we need to make sure that teachers are strengthen there ways of teacher to achieve the students goals. In school systems there is a saying that says “No Child Left Behide” which they use standardized testing as the solution. Doug Lemov would go from school to school and see each child’s weaknesses, and strengths. Some students are very well at taking tests and doing homework, but when it comes to listening in actual class many kids seem to wonder.

Within time people had believed that if you improve the quality of the teaching crops by firing the bad teachers and hiring better ones and they called this “Creating a New Teaching Profession”. Within this article there were many different methods that could improve children’s ability in learning. Traditionally many educational schools had divided there curriculums into three certain parts which were, regular academic subjects which was used to make sure that the teachers had known the basics of what they had been assigned to teach; The nest one is Foundations that had given them a sense of history and philosophy of education; and the last one is Methods course which are really supposed to offer ideas on how to teach particular subjects.

It had been showed in a study that a 2006 report had found that 12 percent of educational school faculty members never had taught in elementary schools or even secondary school themselves. It is also known that only nearly 80 percent of teachers earn there bachelor’s degree in education according to “U.S Department of Education”.

Another question that had been raised in the air was is a good classroom management enough ensures a good instruction? Well to find this out they had spoken to a women by the name of Heather Hill who had showed them a video of a certain teacher that was called by pseudonym Wilma. She was a great teacher and had great charisma but things had seemed to fall apart when it had come to math time. Hill had been a member of group educators who like “Lemov” are also studying great teachers. Rather than focusing on universal teachings techniques that can be applied across subjects and grade levels, Hill and her colleagues had asked what good teachers should know about the specific subjects that they teach.

Another researcher was by the name of Deborah Liebenberg Ball, she had been an assistant professor who also taught math part-time at an East Lansing elementary school and her classroom had been a model for teachers in training. In 1990 Ball had filmed her third-grade math class at the Spartan Village Elementary School, and those videos had become the foundation for a great deal of teaching training research.

These days Lemov had been single-mindedly focused on the mechanics of teaching and the secret steps behide getting and holding the floor weather you’re teaching fractions or the American Revolution. Lemov for his part finds hope in what he has already accomplished.