FOUR WAYS TO SPOT A GREAT TEACHER
I will be leading a 75 minute discussion on teaching (�Coaxing More Excellence from Your Students�) starting at 10:40 a.m. on Saturday, September 27, 2014. The presentation is part of the 2014 North Carolina Education Forum at the Embassy Suites near Raleigh, NC. If you are in the area, I hope you will consider attending. You can get more information at www.ncacpa.org . ** The September 6-7, 2014, issue of The Wall Street Journal had a great article on teaching: �Four Ways to Spot a Great Teacher.� It is on page C3 and I would urge you to read it. Here, I just want to address the four highlights to whet your appetite. The author (Dana Goldstein) talks about the importance of teaching and how a parent (and I suppose a student) can recognize great teaching. Here are the four keys as well as my own observations. �Great teachers: Have active intellectual lives outside thei...