- How do we stop a deadly disease that is spread by mosquitoes?
- How do you make a teacher great?
Take a moment to watch the following video and engage with Gates as he elaborates on:
- Where are great teachers being made?
- What schools send the majority of children to four year colleges?
- What classrooms truly engage their students?
- What tools and data do teachers need to further their professional development and pedagogy skills?
If you are interested in learning more about TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), click here. This is by far one of the most educational websites/initiatives I’ve run across in a long time!
Cheers,
Anna
P.S. Given that it is already the first of March, summer is right around the corner! As you make plans for May, June, and July, many of you may be interested in submitting early literacy curricula to Curriki‘s Summer of Content initiative. Select teachers will receive a stipend for submitting curricula and will have the opportunity to share and have their work promoted to teachers and institutions across the globe. To learn more and apply, click here.
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Thanks for the Gates tip. It’s an interesting question to ponder.
Oh come on the Gates Video is rubbish! teaching is NOT a franchisable set of behaviours. Teaching, especially great teaching, is primarily about engagement motivation and relationships.
You don’t simply do what someone else has done and get the same results. Teaching is NOT programming or software design. There is NOT a prescribed set of behavioural patterns that will automatically and inevitably result in learning for the children in any particular classroom.
This video is demeaning of the fantastic work our great and talented teachers do every day in classrooms around the world. Gates should stick to business and let the experts be educators!
Check out the work of Graham Nuthall, John Hatie or Marzano as a beginning point to understanding teacher effectiveness.