Teachers
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Some
teachers
completely wrote me off as a lost cause.
But with that, we were going to gain freedom: freedom to hire the
teachers
that we knew were going to be effective; freedom to control the curriculum so that we're not doing lesson 1.2 on page five, no; and freedom to control a budget, to spend money where it matters, not how a district or a state says you have to do it.
They deserve a quality school in their neighborhood, a school that they can be proud to say they attend, and a school that the community can be proud of as well, and they need
teachers
to fight for them every day and empower them to move beyond their circumstances.
Teachers
paid less than what it costs them to be here.
There are three principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most
teachers
have to labor and most students have to endure.
Now the reason I say this is because one of the effects of the current culture here, if I can say so, has been to de-professionalize
teachers.
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its
teachers.
Teachers
are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
Great
teachers
do that, but what great
teachers
also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
Our children and
teachers
are encouraged to follow routine algorithms rather than to excite that power of imagination and curiosity.
It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the
teachers
and the students, and if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
They have strong support for the teachers, close links with the community and a broad and diverse curriculum, and often programs which involve students outside school as well as inside school.
You take an area, a school, a district, you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between
teachers
and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life.
I'm talking about
teachers.
When Melinda and I learned how little useful feedback most
teachers
get, we were blown away.
Until recently, over 98 percent of
teachers
just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory.
Today, districts are revamping the way they evaluate teachers, but we still give them almost no feedback that actually helps them improve their practice.
Our
teachers
deserve better.
So today I want to talk about how we can help all
teachers
get the tools for improvement they want and deserve.
So I looked at the countries whose students perform well academically, and looked at what they're doing to help their
teachers
improve.
Now, out of all the places that do better than the U.S. in reading, how many of them have a formal system for helping
teachers
improve?
So there's really only one area where we're near the top, and that's in failing to give our
teachers
the help they need to develop their skills.
Now, they rank number one across the board, in reading, math and science, and one of the keys to Shanghai's incredible success is the way they help
teachers
keep improving.
They made sure that younger
teachers
get a chance to watch master
teachers
at work.
They have weekly study groups, where
teachers
get together and talk about what's working.
Some
teachers
are far more effective than others.
In fact, there are
teachers
throughout the country who are helping their students make extraordinary gains.
If today's average teacher could become as good as those teachers, our students would be blowing away the rest of the world.
So we need a system that helps all our
teachers
be as good as the best.
Well, to find out, our foundation has been working with 3,000
teachers
in districts across the country on a project called Measures of Effective Teaching.
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