The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1
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0:02 - 0:07(ESTV - The Best Teachers in the World Clip 1)
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0:07 - 0:12[Jeff Selingo] You talk a lot in the book (?) - uh - between recruiting better teachers
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0:12 - 0:16and better students to become teachers and training of teachers,
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0:16 - 0:20and talking about quality instructors, what's more important?
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0:20 - 0:28Is it recruiting the best person upfront or does training matter just as much or even more,
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0:28 - 0:31in terms of that, in terms of that would-be teacher?
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0:31 - 0:38[John Chubb] Well, the evidence - the evidence on what drives teachers' quality
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0:38 - 0:44is essentially - and this is the first great part - is essentially
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0:44 - 0:54that most of the skills that teachers demonstrate in the classroom tend to be learned in the classroom, right?
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0:54 - 1:07So - so, selection matters, aptitude matters, certain affective predisposition,
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1:07 - 1:11emotional affective attributes matter.
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1:11 - 1:18And there has been a lot of research on this, and there are - there are screening tools
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1:18 - 1:24that school districts can use to identify people who have a higher probability of success.
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1:24 - 1:31But in the end, the dominant explanation of success is what teachers learn on the job, right?
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1:31 - 1:36So - so training is critical - training is critical.
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1:36 - 1:44Most of it right now is done pre-service and what's done in-service leaves a lot to be desired.
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1:44 - 1:48And there's a tremendous amount of research on professional development,
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1:48 - 1:51which I review in the book, and it's overwhelmingly negative.
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1:51 - 1:56And in school districts, people who are responsible for professional development understand this,
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1:56 - 1:58but there hasn't been a lot of improvement.
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1:58 - 2:04But the evidence suggests that teachers do learn on the job, they learn differentially.
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2:04 - 2:09So not - by the time teachers are four years on the job, some of them are unbelievably great
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2:09 - 2:12and some of them really haven't made it. So -
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2:12 - 2:13[Selingo] So then, why do we need training programs at all,
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2:13 - 2:16why don't we just pick the best students from
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2:16 - 2:19- in some ways, like Teach For America, pick the best students,
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2:19 - 2:22put them through a short training program ..... to learn more on the job?
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2:22 - 2:26[Chubb] Because what - well, what matters is how the experience -
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2:26 - 2:30whether the experience on the job is structured or not, right?
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2:30 - 2:35So, and I - sorry - one of the chapters in the book and one of the main recommendations
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2:35 - 2:38is to take a look at leadership, right?
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2:38 - 2:40I don't want to get ahead of the questioning
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2:40 - 2:46but there is a huge variation in teacher improvement on the job.
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2:46 - 2:50And it's very strongly associated with the kind of context
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2:50 - 2:53that a school leader provides for teachers to lean it (?).
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2:53 - 2:59So, does the school principal create a culture in which - a culture and structure
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2:59 - 3:02in which teachers have an opportunity to work with one another, to learn with one another,
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3:02 - 3:05is a reform of mentoring structure set up,
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3:05 - 3:09is there a structure of teams ...... teachers that's effective,
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3:09 - 3:15does the principal herself or himself really know what good instruction looks like,
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3:15 - 3:18so that the principal can identify the right people to be the mentors,
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3:18 - 3:19the right people, the right people to structure that,
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3:19 - 3:24does the principal know what kind of training is really needed?
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3:24 - 3:28It's not that external training and professional development is inherently bad.
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3:28 - 3:30That's not - that's not it.
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3:30 - 3:38It's that if it's applied across the board without sensitivity to what teachers need, when they need it,
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3:38 - 3:42how it's going to be followed up upon, then it is a waste, you know,
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3:42 - 3:46it's the so-called "drive by" professional development.
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3:46 - 3:49Somebody comes in, does a workshop in the cafeteria, leaves,
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3:49 - 3:51and then it's supposed to make a difference.
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3:51 - 3:52Well how, you know, how could it?
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3:52 - 3:57(This has been a production of EducationSector Independant Analysis. Innovative Ideas
www.educationsector.org)
- Title:
- The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1
- Description:
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In Education Sector's November 1 event, John Chubb discusses his book The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could. (vimeo description)
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See also http://www.educationsector.org/events/author-talk-best-teachers-world
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Claude Almansi edited English subtitles for The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1 | ||
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Claude Almansi edited English subtitles for The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1 | ||
Claude Almansi edited English subtitles for The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1 | ||
Claude Almansi edited English subtitles for The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1 | ||
Claude Almansi edited English subtitles for The Best Teachers in the World Book Event Clip 1 |