What Is “Good Teaching Practice”?
Good teaching practice refers to those customs and procedures which educators believe result in good student learning, whether they have evidence to prove that or not. Lately, it has come to mean carefully leading students through complex projects. Students will be motivated to learn and can figure out the answers and explanations they need to finish the project, or at least where to go to find out what they have to know. The teacher is a resource rather than the font of all wisdom. A good teacher runs a model Constitutional Convention to explain American history. Students negotiating with one another demonstrate what diplomacy is; students representing large states and small states come to appreciate the interests they represent. A good teacher builds a unit on American Indians for middle school students around the construction of a model of an Indian village. A good high school math teacher teaches statistics by having students evaluate election polling data. A good teacher on any le
