What is blocking the research teachers need?
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Do teacher phone calls to parents work?
In “Studying Teacher Moves", Michael Goldstein offers a “practitioner’s take” on what is blocking the research teachers need and what kinds of useful, empirical studies might help to fill this gap.
“There is almost nothing examining the thousands of moves teachers must decide on and execute every school day,” writes Goldstein. These include decisions such as: whether to ask for raised hands, or cold-call; whether to give a warning or a detention; and whether to accept a student’s answer that is mostly right, or stay with a question until one member of the class reaches a 100% correct answer. One problem with most education policy research is that the element of teacher time is missing. “The return on investment for teacher time and the
Do teacher phone calls to parents work?
In “Studying Teacher Moves", Michael Goldstein offers a “practitioner’s take” on what is blocking the research teachers need and what kinds of useful, empirical studies might help to fill this gap.
“There is almost nothing examining the thousands of moves teachers must decide on and execute every school day,” writes Goldstein. These include decisions such as: whether to ask for raised hands, or cold-call; whether to give a warning or a detention; and whether to accept a student’s answer that is mostly right, or stay with a question until one member of the class reaches a 100% correct answer. One problem with most education policy research is that the element of teacher time is missing. “The return on investment for teacher time and the
