RE: Buidling a Better Teacher, NY Times

On developing a new curriculum, a different caliber of person.

Teachers are magicians whose red pens, imparting knowledge, experience and creative potential on awed spectators, perform instructive wonders.

"Can educators be educated about how to educate?" Yes. Everything we know we have learned.

Merit pay would pin pupil against professional.
Test scores, though somewhat indicative of intelligence, eliminate the profession of magic.

"Technique in disguise" is genius... does genius need to be premeditated?

Simply put, "no one wants incompetent teachers in the classroom."

"A belief in some people," *all people, "that good teaching must be purely instinctive, a kind of magic performed by born superstars."

Everything is a science of something, has a science to it. Only when the intimidating connotations of the "Science" are eliminated can one embrace and study it.

Classroom=experiment. Control the classroom, controlled experiment. Control the crowd, the audience, perform magic, stun the students, engage your viewers, forcibly pique their interest: deception, distraction, magic, and they've been fooled into learning, tricked into creating and conspicuously educated.

TBC