Crew Of Education Most Likely To Succeed Analysis

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Everyone has had a teacher that they loved when they were younger, they would wake up for school and be excited to go and learn. As a result of liking your teacher you also did better in that class. On the other hand everyone has had a teacher that they absolutely hated. It makes you wonder how did they ever got that job as being a teacher in the first place? Almost anyone could become a teacher. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s “Annals Of Education Most Likely to Succeed”. He believes that “Teaching should be open to anyone with a pulse and a college degree—and teachers should be judged after they have started their jobs, not before.” I agree with him and believe that you find out a Teacher’s potential after they start the job. In order…show more content…
By doing this you can see how well a person performs in action. While observing the teacher in the classroom setting you can tell how that individual interacts with the different types of students. You can also see if that individual is prepared to teach the subject that is needed. By observing them in the classroom setting you can see how well they teach the students and how they react to it on the job, off the cuff interaction. When I was in high school I experienced a bad teacher in English, then that following year I had an excellent English teacher. The bad English teacher kept to the same old ways of teaching by requiring us to memorize boring vocabulary words, and work out of the Text book to learn grammar. We would walk in and she would tell the assignment and then we would barely hear her speak throughout the remainder of the classroom period. My classmates and I dreaded going to this class everyday and most of us had very poor grades resulting from…show more content…
The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half’s worth of material. “A child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher. Teacher effects are also much stronger than class-size effects. You’d have to cut the average class almost in half to get the same boost that you’d get if you switched from an average teacher to a teacher in the eighty-fifth percentile.” A good teacher costs as much as an average one, where as halving class size would require that you build twice as many classrooms and hire twice as many

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