“Teachers stall out not because they stop caring but because they lack guidance and support,” says Schneider. “Engaged in difficult and demanding work, even gifted teachers need relevant, robust and continuous professional development opportunities. But very few get it, particularly in schools serving high-needs students. As a result, most teachers realize only a fraction of their full potential.” Schneider sees the solution beginning with schools and districts which “need to transform themselves from administrative units into learning organizations, carving out more time during the school day for teachers to collaborate, observe one another and work with experts” in order to “produce teachers who grow every year, across their whole careers, and who feel ever more effective and more valued.”
Schneider also discusses this topic with the Majority Report with Sam Seder and Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.
This is a “Holy Cross in the News” item by Evangelia Stefanakos.
