Reply #11: How about positive lifetime effects on their students?

[mbperrin]

Just as surely as wine cannot be judged in its season of bottling, educators' real effects take years, even decades to show.

For instance, our district REQUIRES lesson plans to follow Bloom's Taxonomy, a truly out of date system. Those who are using a metacognitive model are being punished on their evaluations by the principal, a former football coach.

In this case, good teaching conflicts with district policy.

So rather than look so much at the HOW of teaching, I think we should spend more time on the lasting, lifetime results of education.