2/3: The best school systems in the world: finding or creating the best teachers? |
| Published: January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm |
| Tags: assessment, blc08, curriculum, leadership amp management, ltsfutures, professional development, cpd, mckinsey, teacher |
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This is the second of three posts in a series paraphrasing the 2007 McKinsey report (pdf), which analysed what made the best education systems in the world, well, the best. Duh Point #1: You need Good TeachersWe've all had the experience of being taught by a dire teacher, someone who turned us off learning or, at best, made it difficult to enjoy. Why is that as professionals we have such a hard time saying that there are Bad teachers out there, just as we find it so easy to say that there are some Good ones, too? Tennessee and Dallas research shows that a good and bad teacher can make a 50%/49% difference in attainment over three years. Students learn three times as fast as those in poor teacher classes. Low-performing primary teachers create damage which is irreversible. Quick progression early on is essential, with p.15 of the report giving lots of examples of the issues of not doing this by 11 years, with the impossibility of getting to university by 14 years old when the [ Full article ] |
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