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I think this is a very interesting - and worrying - article published online via bigthink.com :




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.
Debbie Hepplewhite
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