Plain and Simple
The U.S. Department of Education today launched a new Web site to provide teachers, administrators and other educators with recommendations on effective teaching practices and examples of possible ways to implement those practices to help promote excellence in American education and improve student achievement.
If it hasn’t been obvious yet, one thing you will learn about teaching is that there is a lot of begging, borrowing and stealing in the profession. You will always have to beg for library time, supplies, money and borrow and steal lesson plans, ideas, supplies from colleagues. In this case; begging, borrowing and stealing are acceptable.
Now, the government has created a website that facilitates this.
The website is broken down into three areas; learning how something works, seeing how it works and doing what works.
This website was created in order to make the No Child Left Behind Act attempt to make every student on grade level by 2014.
Without forming an opinion on NCLB, I think this website is a great idea. Unfortunately, teaching can be trial and error and only having 13 years to mold students isn’t a lot of time. This website can help us gain techniques in our classroom without having to find what works ourselves.
More information can be found at doingwhatworks@ed.gov
‘Doing What Works’ Web Site Launched to Help Educators
U.S. Department of Education Press Release
November 2, 2007
