To Succeed in Teaching, Think Like a …..
Because the pandemic has exposed the fundamental inequities in our education system, there’s lots of ‘Big Picture’ thinking going on about American public education. For example, Paul Reville, the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education who now teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, hopes that this pandemic will be education’s “Sputnik moment.”
I hope that he and others who are looking ahead are right and that we will fundamentally overhaul our approach. Because I have written about this in Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education, I want to focus here on succeeding RIGHT NOW. Not next year when schools have reopened, but tomorrow and next week, when teachers and parents are struggling to achieve ‘home learning.’
Four pathways to success:
- Think like a librarian
- Think like a swimming instructor
- Think like a highway engineer
- Think like a gardener
Librarians do not have a captive audience. After all, no one is required to attend the library. To survive and prosper, librarians have had to identify their audiences and find ways to appeal to them, to draw them into their buildings or electronic CONTINUE READING: To Succeed in Teaching, Think Like a ….. | The Merrow Report
Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education: Merrow, John: 9781620972410: Amazon.com: Books - https://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Reform-12-Step-Program-Education/dp/1620972417