Building a Better Teacher

I’m a little late posting this so you’ll need to register with the NY Times to read it, but it’s free, and – trust me – it’s worth it! This article reports on the work that is being done to identify what great teachers actually do in the classroom and how to pass this information along to other teachers. It’s a long article, so here’s a question you can try to answer as you read: What should a teacher do when a kid starts the class by saying, “I was just thinking about six,” Sean began. “I’m just thinking, it can be an odd number, too.” … Sean went on, speaking faster. “Cause there could be two, four, six, and two — three twos, that’d make six!”

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