Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness."

Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by Tichy on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @04:55PM (#391848)

I must admit the part about those people criticizing the videos really doesn't sit well with me. Do they assume there is one perfect way to teach? Are they working towards establishing the "fascist" school of perfect teaching, that all future teachers will have to rigidly adhere to?

Maybe pulling out the letter V would have distracted too much from the letter C, or whatever. I am afraid such people are just parasites to society, somehow they managed to tap into tax payer money and get paid for just sitting on their ass all day talking bullshit. Probably standing in front of a class directly they would be miserable failures. Sorry for sounding so harsh, but my spouse is a teacher, so I guess I am a little too emotionally involved...

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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by pchristensen on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:05AM (#393050)

They're trying to systematically determine what works and what doesn't. They've got to review a lot of different teachers in the same and different situations. A teacher who wants to do better would greatly benefit from specific, actionable recommendations. Creating tools that can be used for deliberate practice is useful work, especially if the results can be widely distributed.

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Re:Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one rese... by Tichy on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:58PM (#393535)

In theory yes, but it just seems too easy to criticize in that way. But I admit I don't know enough about their work to give a fair judgement...

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