3/3: The best school systems in the world: best students come from best teachers |
| Published: January 8, 2008, 9:28 am |
| Tags: assessment, blc08, collaborative learning, leadership amp management, assessment, attainment, blc08, mckinsey, teacher |
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This is the final 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. It's the way you tell 'emIt was a Northern Irish comedian who explained comedy like that, but the same might be said of teaching. The only way to improve outcomes is to improve instruction, the way teachers teach. In the top performing school systems learning occurs when students and teachers interact, so the quality of interaction is vital. But it follows naturally that for teachers to learn to be better teachers they need coaching practice, teacher training in the classroom, the development of stronger school leaders and, importantly, more teachers learning from each other. Canada's Alberta defines instruction with a set of 30 variables: very messy, very complex, in the same way that a year's worth of blogged reflections can be very messy until you review them. Curriculum development is one way to [ Full article ] |
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