Remember, the world around us is an excellent classroom.
It is nothing short of a miracle that we still have so many excellent classroom teachers in our schools.
This can be an excellent classroom exercise; have the students select a famous person of their choice and research this person's background and family to try and assemble a genogram.
By offering a window into West African cultures and the challenges faced there through the eyes of its hard-to-resist heroine, this animated project would also be an excellent addition to classrooms in the United States.
Though there are far too few seats in well-regarded charter schools to serve all the poor children currently stuck in segregated, under-performing classrooms, the excellent track record of segregated charters like those in the KIPP network has undermined the American left's long-held commitment – no matter how quixotic – to widespread school integration.
We know that low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities, and English learners are disproportionately taught by underprepared and inexperienced teachers--and yet these are the students who most need an excellent educator leading their classrooms.
The two men suggested that schools could compensate by striving to have an excellent teacher in every classroom.
She added: "It is not possible to drive up standards in our schools across the board without excellent teachers in ewvery classroom".
"It's time for ministers to drop their gimmicks and focus on what really matters: enough excellent teachers in the classroom and proper resources for schools, things they are singularly failing to deliver".
Calling on the new education secretary to "ditch this terrible idea", Powell said: "Justine Greening must turn the page on the Tories' education policy and focus on what improves standards, excellent teachers, in the classroom with the right skills and support to deliver for children.
