Fred,
Wow! What great details about both the good and bad teachers! I found myself cringing with each line I read about the bad teachers. Ironically, with the good teachers I found myself thinking that each one would warrant more of my attention to ensure the quality of their teaching approaches compared to the popularity of their approaches. Does that make sense?
As an administrator, assuming you were in charge of the good and bad teachers, how would you deal with the bad teachers? How would you go about measuring the effectiveness of the good teachers from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective?
Is there such a thing as a natural teacher? Or, are all good teachers automatically a result of being "natural" teachers and all bad teachers lack that innate ability? Can good teaching be taught? If so, how would you teach the bad teachers to be good? How would you go about determining when to keep going with the bad teachers hoping to turn them around versus deciding that they lack the ability to become good teachers? Would you accept them becoming "adequate" teachers or would you stick to your guns believing that they need to be good or nothing at all?
David
