What Makes a Good Teacher? Not Necessarily Credentials.

Senior_s_Dad
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:48:38 +0000

The following is a link to an interesting article from The New Yorker magazine on the skills sets that make good teachers and how difficult it is to predict who would make a good teacher.

[Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker](Most Likely To Succeed | The New Yorker)

One of its implications (although certainly not the point sought by its author to be made) it seems to me is that homeschooling’s emphasis on one-on-one interaction between parent-educator and child-student is more likely to lead to educational success than are traditional teaching credentials, certifications, and ever higher teacher standards.

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