Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) [Paperback]

Couldn't be better timed&exhilarating.Moments of educational theater enliven and illuminate the history.Both a history of the research on effective teaching as well as a consideration of how that research might best be implemented. What emerges is the gaping chasm between what the best teachers do and how we go about evaluating what theyve done.Green has spent years looking at what makes a great teacherand whether the teachers we remember most fondly were born great or simply learned key skills.[S]hould be part of every new teacher's education.Elizabeth Green draws upon years of interviews and research as an education writer and CEO of Chalkbeat to make the case for why teaching is a craft and that it can be taught to anyone. Her excellent book should be read for a detailed account of the history of teacher education, an international context, and an entertaining narrative.We romanticize teachers, and we vilify them, but we don't do much to help. This beautifully written, defiantly hopeful book points the way to a better future for American teachers and the children they teach.Elizabeth Green reveals, in cinematic detail, what makes great teaching such a dazzling intellectual challengeand why it has taken us so unforgivably long to care. A must-read book for every American teacher and taxpayer.A