Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 14.  Today we are looking at The Teaching Gap

 

Today’s insight comes from.  Today’s insight comes from a book that I think should be required reading for all educators and parents: The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom by Stigler & Hiebert.

As much as I hate comparing the education system in our country to other countries, this book is so powerful.  One of the reasons I hate doing comparisons is that there are so many factors that go into the education of a child and the culture of the country plays a large role in those factors.  However, we shouldn’t focus on the things we can’t control and instead we need to focus on the things we can control. We do have control over what happens in our classrooms, in our schools, in our districts.  The way we teach mathematics is up to us. Get all the info at the show notes here: buildmathminds.com/14