According to The Boston Globe,
“The study released Tuesday by TNTP, a nonprofit organization, found no evidence that any particular approach or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers improve in the classroom.‘We are bombarding teachers with a lot of help, but the truth is, it’s not helping all that much,’ said Dan Weisberg, TNTP’s chief executive. ‘We’re basically throwing a lot of things against the wall and not even looking to see whether it works.’”
The study gives a number of steps to overcome these deficiencies, but I have a simpler one.
Today’s teachers do not need more help in understanding child psychology, nor instruction on how to make perfect lesson plans. What they need is the opportunity to grow in greater knowledge of the subject area as they teach their students. According to author David Hicks, this is the method which made ancient schoolteachers successful.
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