Yesterday Carl Hendrick shared this image, taken from this article by Michelle Chi:
I would add one more to this list:
- Researchers often think or seem to think that teachers don’t know what they’re doing. A mistake one can make when introducing e.g. spaced repetition. A lot of teachers know this from experience, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they know the name of the concept or the rationale behind it. Still, they are often doing a good job.
Sorry to sound like an aggrieved scientist, but another reason is that many if not most teachers have never learned how to read or evaluate a scientific article.
Every year thousand of researches published and there is a tussle between the classroom and the research.Classroom needs a practicum advice while research needs classroom as a laboratory and both fail to gain what they are searching for.
So this is exactly what we are hoping to do at Socrates – Head of School. We’ve noticed this gap as well and are distilling the best books on leading and learning and are offering them for free to the world.