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Effective Teaching and Implications for Improving Student Learning

Effective Teaching: Contextual Influences on Inquiries into Effective Teaching and their Implications for Improving Student Learning

Effective Teaching: A Roundtable sponsored by Teach for America and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Harvard Educational Review, Volume 82, No. 1, Spring 2012

ANTHONY S. BRYK
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
HEATHER HARDING
Teach For America
SHARON GREENBERG
Independent educational consultant

In this article, Anthony Bryk, Heather Harding, and Sharon Greenberg report on a roundtable jointly sponsored by Teach For America and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The authors brought together a group of scholars and practitioners with a broad range of perspectives and asked them to explore several questions related to the emerging national narrative on effective teachers: What is an effective teacher? How do we leverage this moment of enormous energy in producing more effective teaching to advance meaningful improvements at scale? Where are the current sites of success? What can we learn from what is working? The article is organized around the edited transcript of the roundtable discussion and is supplemented by author commentaries. The authors seek to illuminate and reimagine the current “nonsystem” in order to accelerate progress toward a wholly

effective teaching

 

http://her.hepg.org/content/k58q7660444q1210/fulltext.pdf

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