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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
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In the first edition of The Teaching Gap, the authors drew on the conclusions of the 1999 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) — an innovative study of teaching in several cultures — to refocus education reform efforts. Foremost among the authors’ initial discoveries was that reform must start with dramatic changes in the culture of teaching. Using videotaped lessons from dozens of randomly selected eighth-grade classrooms in the United States, Japan, and Germany, the authors offered a surprising view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom. They called for a cultural shift within schools that would demand perpetual teacher training, with stricter requirements, better peer review, higher academic standards, and more shoptalk between teachers. Ten years on, the authors share their latest discoveries and offer fresh solutions for the American school system, which has long lagged behind international standards in nearly every area of academic achievement. If given the opportunity, teachers can change the way our students learn.In a time when educators and politicians in the United States are fumbling for a fix–from vouchers to smaller class sizes–for ailing public schools, it’s refreshing to read the more sophisticated take on what can be done to improve American education found in The Teaching Gap, a straightforward analysis of approaches towards teaching around the world. James W. Stigler, a UCLA psychology professor, and James Hiebert, an education professor at the University of Delaware, argue that America’s culture of teaching needs to be changed before we see any real change in student achievement–and they’re not simply talking about higher pay and more respect. Read the rest of this entry »
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