Moving from Highly Qualified to Highly Effective Teachers

ASCD held a briefing on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2009, for educators and the staffs of congressional offices about how teachers and school leaders can foster and measure teacher effectiveness through federal policies and existing professional development activities.

ASCD's panel of experts discussed the policies and practices necessary to transform highly qualified teachers into highly effective teachers, including the best strategies and practices to develop, support, and evaluate highly effective teachers and—most critically—ways to help struggling teachers improve. You can review the slides from their presentations below.

Learn more - http://www.ascd.org/highlyeffective

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[GnosisMan50]

We may believe there is nothing but on closer observation we can see that there is. The question arises, are we willing to addressing with the attention it deserves no matter how we may feel of the outcome?

[GnosisMan50]

Being highly effective is largely determined by that which impairs the creative spirit in teachers and in this respect where are we? If we cared, if we really wanted to make a tangible difference in the lives of our students, we would see to it that anything within ourselves that may be hindering our creative spirit in finding better ways to teach be addressed with the attention it deserves.

[GnosisMan50]

for it is the only way towards true transformation. But this kind of knowledge is not privy to the intellect. It is the kind of knowledge that speaks to the heart not just the mind and in this respect, it cannot be measured.

[GnosisMan50]

how do you measure educators at their best? I'm judging by this 3 minute video and from much of my reading in education. It seems the real problem we have in education is that we have reached a bottleneck so to speak; that even the most brilliant minds in education are at a loss in terms of imparting the right kind of knowledge that brings students into a new level of awareness, a new level of reality regarding his or her humanness and purpose in life. ...