ART of TEACHING Increases Passion for Teaching and Ability to Inspire Students
By Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING staff – At the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING, we encourage our fellows to provide us with constructive feedback regarding their perception of the work we do at the ART of TEACHING. Since 2008, we have captured fellows’ feedback via our annual survey, aimed at [...]
Alone in the Classroom: Why Teachers Are Too Isolated
By Jeffrey Mirel and Simona Goldin, the Atlantic On the first day of their first year teaching, new teachers walk into their schools and meet their colleagues. They might talk about the latest state assessments, textbooks that have just arrived, or the newest project the district is spearheading. Some veteran teachers may tell the newcomers [...]
Ed Prof Challenges Professional Development Conventions
By Tom Chorneau, SI&A’s Cabinet Report Ivan Cheng, who spent more than two decades teaching math in Los Angeles schools, is one of a growing number of researchers who believe conventional methods for making teachers better don’t necessarily help their students. A professor of secondary education at California State University, Northridge, and a principal in [...]
Live Webinar: When Good Enough is Not Enough
Live Webinar: When Good Enough is Not Enough Webinar takes place on Thursday, April 5th at 10:30 a.m. (PDT) LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2012 – Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING announced today that it will co-present a live webinar, along with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), entitled When Good Enough [...]
Reflections on a Half-Century of School Reform
By Jack Jennings, Center on Education Policy Excerpt: For half a century, external remedies have been tried and are not sufficient. If American education is to see major improvement, it is time to concentrate on the core components of what happens in the classroom—who is teaching, what is being taught, and how those key elements [...]
Learning Lessons from a Father’s Pride in His Son
By Steve Lopez, LA Times Harry Gordon wasn’t exactly pushy in the email he sent me, but he made his point. He said he understood the Miramonte Elementary School scandal was a story that had to be done, but he wondered why there couldn’t also be a positive story about teachers. And he had one [...]
Common-Core Work Must Include Teacher Development
By Stephanie Hirsh, EducationWeek Now bearing the imprimatur of 46 states and the District of Columbia, the Common Core State Standards represent a major step forward for schools and the students they must prepare to graduate from high school ready for college and careers. Yet a fundamental contradiction underlies the progress: While we are promoting [...]
How to Grade a Teacher
By James Encinas, Kyle Hunsberger and Michael Stryer, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed We’re teachers who believe that teacher evaluation, including the use of reliable test data, can be good for students and for teachers. Yes, yes, we know we’re not supposed to exist. But we do, and there are a lot more of us. Continue [...]
Japanese Strategy for Improving Teachers is Catching On in Chicago
By Linda Lutton, The Hechinger Report – In the sunlit library at Jorge Prieto Elementary on Chicago’s’ northwest side, an experiment is under way. A provisional classroom has been set up. A white board sits at the front of the room, and 20 eighth-graders are seated at library tables. Math teacher Michael Hock is giving [...]
Survey Says ART of TEACHING Program Promotes Teaching Excellence
By Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING staff – Every year for the past five, we at the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING take a step back from the work we do in support of developing gifted teachers and artful teaching in order to assess the perception of the ART of TEACHING [...]