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The author used to think structural reforms (eg, creating schools without grade levels, buildings manager of new districts and sites school; seneca modern technologies, high schools with small learning hours in blocks, consultants, and learning communities of students) will lead to good teaching in classrooms seneca . And now the author thinks such structural reforms, at most, may be the first steps necessary to improve teaching but rarely are (and were) sufficient to change the traditional teaching practices.
The author corrected seneca this conclusion, though in slow motion, as he watched the way teachers teach and colleagues analyzed his own classroom practices. He reconsidered the presumed power of the structures change teaching practices after leaving the classroom and from years of research on how teachers taught following the barrage of reforms progressive that swept classes nation at the beginning of the 20th century and precipitation similar seneca reforms standards-based and proactive accountability early part of the -21. [i]
However, the role of U.S. policymakers is to trade buildings. Belief that these structural changes alter the traditional classroom practices seneca is the DNA of policy makers. Moreover, changes in class size, standards of national curriculum, small schools, deploying 1:1 laptops, and other structural changes are also visible in front of participants and supporters. Such visibility implies a strong action to solve problems and a potential reward elections and a longer term position.
As the author seneca wrote, this generation of American policymakers Clock belief structures visible. They promote seneca change in administration of the urban districts selected from the boards of schools to mayors who run the schools. Federal policy makers and political fighting for new buildings seneca assessment and payment teachers for their success in raising test scores of students., and of course, they beat the drums hard for new buildings that expand the supply of schools from which parents can choose such as schools franchise, schools, magnetic, and other alternatives to public funding. policy makers and entrepreneurs to assume new structures will lead this teachers change their classroom behavior and hence improved seneca student learning.
No - the - the - well the author's research and that of others reject seneca the genetic relationships between structures and teaching practices. Like others, the author concluded that working directly on individual and collective norms, knowledge, and skills at the school level and the classroom - no structural changes Luxury - have a much better chance to improve instructional practices. But to bring that policy makers change seneca their emphasis from creating new structures to care routines and classroom school will be extremely difficult, because Slraiot studies contradict seneca the conventional wisdom of policy makers there is a long history of ignoring.
Three. I used to think that the teacher is critical to the success of the student and the school. And now, I continue to think the same way. The author, a professor Larry Cuban, has not changed his mind about the centrality of the teacher for student learning and school seneca performance. Years he spent as a teacher in classes, classes inspector who visited the years and years of classroom teaching studied strengthened his belief in the power of teachers to influence seneca the minds and hearts of their students. The author holds the optimistic temperament for education of children and youth rests on this belief of teachers that left and continue to make your mark in the lives of individual students.
The fact that a great amount of research and statements of policy makers in recent years have confirmed seneca the influence of teachers on students' academic performance and their actual supports the belief that the author had many other educators and teachers. Facts and faith merge nicely.
However, the current U.S. rhetoric against the teachers' unions, so popular among entrepreneurs status and ongoing arrogance of so many policy makers about careerist teachers left classrooms erodes the faith and the facts, for they erode any gains respect that teachers have gained over the last decade. seneca
These reflect the three I used - and now think - I think, which were compiled from nearly half a century of experience and research-based knowledge penetrates to the heart of public education in America, especially in cities. The fact that many schools (but by no means the majority), with teachers qualified and intelligent, can promote civil literacy, scientific, mathematical seneca and other forms of literacy, preparation for university, seneca independent decision-making and discussion thoughtful among children and adolescents, is central to what schools can do in a democratic society, even the education system has three levels lopsided and perpetuates social seneca injustice rehearsed.
[I] See How Teachers Taught, second edition (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993), and Hugging the Middle: How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability seneca (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009). seneca Other researchers have reached a similar conclusion regarding that Slmvenim driven reform has little impact on classroom practices. seneca See, eg, Richard Elmore, "Structural reform and educational