Shanahan: 'Why I'm not impressed with effective teachers'

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Shanahan: 'Why I'm not impressed with effective teachers'

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Wise words by Timothy Shanahan:

http://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/2016/ ... eracy)&m=1
Why I'm Not Impressed with Effective Teachers

I was making a presentation about how to raise reading achievement. I was taking my audience through research on what needed to be taught and how it needed to be taught if kids were to do as well as possible. I was telling about my experiences as director of reading of the Chicago Public Schools at a time when my teachers raised reading achievement.

When I finished, a teacher approached me. “What do you think is the most important variable in higher reading achievement?”

My answer was, “The amount of teaching—academic experience—that we provide to our children.”

She stared at me, horrified. “Not the teacher?”
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