[Olpc-open] What makes a good teacher?

[Edward Cherlin]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7209096.stm
Professor Patricia Broadfoot, a former Professor of Education and now
vice-chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire, argued
persuasively that the evidence from international studies showed that
"the highest quality teaching and learning comes when we have the
greatest autonomy for the teacher and the learner".

The good teacher, she went on, was someone who was "left to get on
with what they think their students need".

This certainly sounded like a rejection of the prescriptive approach
of the national curriculum and the numeracy and literacy strategies.
-- 
Edward Cherlin
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