The Global Achievement Gap - Chapter 4

In chapter four, Wagner focuses on how the future teachers are being taught and prepared for teaching. In this chapter he talks about how we have to improve how we are being prepared to teach.-In the chapter he talks about how teachers are not being evaluated enough to improve the teaching. He says that in most places the princple will come into a classroom and oberve how the teacher is teaching for about 15 minutes then review the evaluation later on. The reason why Wagner does not believe this is helping the teachers, is because the princples are not suppling valuable feedback.-Wagner gives a few ways we can improve getting future teachers ready for teaching, one way he talks about is giving the students a clear understanding of what they need to know and be able to do. -Another way to improve the teaching is by, learning walks. Learning walks help teachers talk to each other about what they want from their students and other teachers can help and give insight to help their students. - Near the end of the chapter he uses a really god analogy on how people are being taught to teach, he says that we should not teach future teachers how to memorize, like having someone memorize the parts of a car, we should teach the future teachers by atually having them try it out, like actually having them drive. I agree with this analogy because you can't expect someone to be a good teacher it they have never had any actual experience with it. It would be like someone learning all the parts of a car and then execting them to be able to drive it.