Experts Search for Best Content to Train Teachers
A member of the University of Virginia’s MyTeachingPartner team, Sharon Deal works one-on-one with teachers to guide their practice.
—Casey Templeton for Education Week
Researchers Are Trying to Identify the Most Beneficial Information to Give Teachers to Help Them in Their Professional Growth
In the video clip, the middle school teacher stops in midstep to fix her eyes on two students in the second row who have just exchanged mock jabs. In exactly the same tone that she has just used to tell the class she is passing out papers, the pony-tailed teacher pronounces the word "boys," and the two combatants straighten up and fade into conformity.
The episode takes about four seconds. The goofing-off is nearly invisible to the untrained eye. But in the course of a few years, the teacher could save precious hours with such acuity.
"You did not lose any instructional time," her teaching coach wrote approvingly after viewing the video of...
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