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Teachers Make a Difference, What is the research evidence?

My journey this morning takes me from identifying the relative power of the teacher to a reflection
on the qualities of excellence among teachers, and dwells mainly on a study undertaken in the
classroom of America’s very best teachers. My search is driven by the goal of ascertaining the
attributes of excellence – because if we can discover the location of these goalposts, if we can
understand the height of the bar of the goalposts, we then have the basis for developing appropriate
professional development, the basis for teacher education programs to highlight that which truly
makes the difference, the basis for extolling that our profession truly does have recognisable
excellence which can be identified in defensible ways, and the basis for a renewed focus on the
the success of our teachers to make a difference.

Teachers Make a Difference, What is the research evidence?

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Teachers Make a Difference, What is the research evidence?

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