What makes an effective teacher?
“Teach For America” founder Wendy Kopp is going to Capitol Hill later today to explain the qualities that her organization believes make the most effectivev teachers in low-income communities.
Teach For America is a nonprofit organization that recruits newly graduated college students to spend two years teaching in low-income schools around the country. It’s been doing it for 20 years.
Using test score data, the organization has determined that effective teachers are those that employ the same strategies as successful leaders in any field--not specifically a classroom.
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