bigthink.com: 'We need to re-write the textbook on how to te
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:09 am
I think this is a very interesting - and worrying - article published online via bigthink.com :
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/we-nee ... w-to-teach
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/we-nee ... w-to-teach
We Need to Rewrite the Textbook on How to Teach Teachers
by SIMON OXENHAM
We need to completely rewrite the textbooks on how to teach teachers. That’s according to a new report just published by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The report describes a vast and severe failure of teacher-training courses and the textbooks that accompany them to convey evidence-based practices; while delivering unsupported anecdotal evidence and well-debunked myths in spades. The report is accompanied by a letter of support signed by an assortment of professors of psychology and learning sciences from universities around the world.