Teaching

What if teachers were considered as valuable as athletes?

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In the National Football League (NFL), it's simple: during the league's annual draft of the best available college players, the best teams pick last, and the worst teams pick first.

Why do we tolerate the fact that the opposite is true in our public school system -- especially when everyone agrees that a highly effective teacher is the single biggest factor in whether a child does well in school?

We can do better.

Clearly, we need to think about how to recruit, retain, and support a profession of highly effective classroom teachers. But before we can decide how to do that well, we need to describe, together, the characteristics of a highly effective teacher, so we all know what to look for in future policy proposals.

Who was your most effective teacher, and what was it about that person that made him or her so effective in helping you learn?

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