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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/07/magazine/20100307-teacher-videos.html?ref=magazine

Building a Better Teacher
By Elizabeth Green
The New York Times
 
Illustration by R. Kikou Johnson
 
ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. On that particular day, he made a depressing visit to a school in Syracuse, N.Y., that was like so many he’d seen before: “a dispiriting exercise in good people failing,” as he described it to me recently. Sometimes Lemov could diagnose problems as soon as he walked in the door. But not here. Student test scores had dipped so low that administrators worried the state might close down the school. But the teachers seemed to care about their students. They sat down with them on the floor to read and picked activities that should have engaged them. The classes were small. The school had rigorous academic standards and state-of-the-art curriculums and used a software program to analyze test results for each student, pinpointing which skills she still needed to work on.
 
But when it came to actual teaching, the daily task of getting students to learn, the school floundered. 
 
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Video: Building a Better Teacher

Relevant Subject and Topic
Other, Career and Life Skills, Other

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Article
Best Practice

Features
Informative, Educational, Persuasive, Inspirational, Experiential, For Individuals, Text

Format
Document, Webpage, Print

Copyright Owner
Elizabeth Green
The New York Times Magazine

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Instructors, Parents, Policy Makers

Age Appropriateness
Adult(19+)

Grade Appropriateness
Postsecondary, Graduate, Adult General, Professional

Geographic Suitability
All or Non-Specific
United States

Language
English

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