Yesterday's New York Times featured an article entitled "Building a Better Teacher" by Elizabeth Green. The article is long but I thought it was well worth the time spent reading it.

SOME of the ideas explored in this piece reinforce much of my learning over the years as well as the "Pebble Creek Labs Philosophy". Check it out here and see what you think: "Building a Better Teacher"

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"The smarter path to boosting student performance... is to improve the quality of the teachers who are already teaching"

"what looked like natural-born genius was often deliberate technique in disguise"

“Teaching depends on what other people think...not what you think"

And my absolute favorite:

"A teacher’s control... should be “an exercise in purpose, not in power.”

Even without reading the article, there is a lot to be discussed from these quotes alone!

I'm just sayin'...

Cynthia L. Moore