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

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.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.In this fascinating and accessible book, Elizabeth Green tells the story of the country's leading researchers on the all-important questions of what makes for an effective classroom teacher and how teachers can be trained to do their jobs better. That the story feels completely fresh is testament not only to Greens skill as a reporter and writer but also to how beside-the-point much of the national conversation about education is.?Greens book ought to persuade the country to focus on what really matters in education.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.In vivid detail, Elizabeth Green chronicles the long, uncertain, but ultimately promising efforts, based on research, to improve teaching in American schools.Great education is the foundation of a flourishing society, and it depends on great teachers.[Green] makes the case through thoughtful details that great teachers are made, not born& she brings hope and renewal to the field.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.Green has spent years looking at what makes a great teacherand whetlƒg