How to teach or “transfer training” or “get others to be able to do it and know it, too”

I just came across a passage that does a good job of conveying the essence of how to teach.  It is in ‘Higher Education in Transition” 4th Ed. by John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy. Since this passage essentially describes the basic philosophy that I use in teaching, and since I teach math, I will […]

Teacher competency exams for holding UNIVERSITIES accountable

If we gave teachers – starting with high school teachers –  competency exams in their subject field, where we compiled performance data only for the schools they attended, we could start to hold universities accountable.  It seems to me that this would be easy to do.  I’m sure the teachers would agree if their individual scores were […]