In Your View: What is a good science teacher?
Issue 257 | Page 14 | Published Sep 2014
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Search the Internet for the qualities of a good teacher and a whole range of ideas are thrown at you. Some contain very outmoded ideas, such as that teaching is about the'transmission of knowledge' to students. I have no doubt that such ideas hold sway in government departments! Most people in schools can recognise a good teacher almost instinctively, yet tremendous effort is made at national levels and amongst schools' managers to impose systems that are meant to'improve' teaching.
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