teachers are the most important school-level factor in students’ learning, especially in schools serving students from high-minority, low-income communities. Research also shows that the quality of teachers varies greatly.
After four years, the 50 teachers we studied made career choices that were consistent with national patterns: approximately 1/3 left teaching, 1/3 moved to new schools, and 1/3 remained in their original school.
Primary among these are the capabilities to symbolize, plan alternative strategies (forethought), learn through vicarious experience, self-regulate, and self-reflect. These capabilities provide human beings with the cognitive means by which they are influential in determining their own destiny.
“This goes back to the bigger picture idea that everything a teacher does or doesn’t do, says or doesn’t say, sends some message to the student and has an impact.”
before they can earn their master’s degrees, they must submit a portfolio showing that their own students made at least one year of academic progress in a subject.
By 2013, New York will begin holding all graduate students in education accountable for student learning in their classrooms before they can get their degrees,
"This goes back to the bigger picture idea that everything a teacher does or doesn't do, says or doesn't say, sends some message to the student and has an impact."