Good teachers are a rare breed. Teaching grammar to 13 year-olds isn’t exactly among the top ten most desired careers, yet, there are people with a passion for the subject, a heart for children, and a gift for communication rolled into one.
Unfortunately, these people often wind up spending as much time grading papers as they do using their gift for teaching.
Excellent teachers should be identified, prized, and advertised. To allow their gifts to be used, they should be given the most eager students, an assistant, and a raise.
Managers: Reward and enable gifted performers by allowing them to focus more exclusively on what they love to do and do well. It’s good for them and good for you too.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Melissa // Sep 10, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Amen, amen, amen.
2 Peggy // Sep 10, 2007 at 10:21 pm
“Managers: Reward and enable gifted performers by allowing them to focus more exclusively on what they love to do and do well. It’s good for them and good for you too. ”
Man…can’t we put that is some “How to be a good manager” manual???
Sadly, in the county I live in….many good teachers are pulled from classrooms to go work at the county or state levels. You can’t blame the teacher for the monetary compensation they will be getting but what a shame for our kids!
3 apex who wants keeley hazell // Sep 14, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I agree with this completely. Out of the probably 100 teachers or so I have had in my life (school teachers only), I remember and respect only a few.
I love teachers that make class fun, for them and the student instead of making you write a paper that they’ll probably hate grading anyway.
4 Chuck Westbrook // Sep 14, 2007 at 3:39 pm
@Apex WWKH– If I were to write a full blown rant on this subject, I’d probably focus on the college level. How silly is it that professors are appointed based on their research value rather than their teaching ability. Last time I checked, students pay to be taught. Some of my professors were terrible teachers. Often Grad Students were the better teachers.
5 apex who wants keeley hazell // Sep 17, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Good point. College teachers with the exception of a few are probably the worst.
Sadly my school does not have grad students assisting teachers at all so as a result I have done quite poor in some college classes and completely blame the teachers for inadequate teaching.
In fact, in one class I re-took (different teacher the second time) I went from a D to an F.
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