Edutopia: 4 Things Transformational Teachers Do

The key to transformational teaching is not reacting, but rather a grinding obsession with analysis and preparation. Lee Shulman, as reported by Marge Scherer, suggests that expert teachers -- despite enormous challenges --demonstrate:

• Cognitive understanding of how students learn; 
• emotional preparation to relate to many students whose varied needs are not always evident;
• content knowledge from which to draw different ways to present a concept; and, finally, 
• the ability to make teaching decisions quickly and act on them.

So how do they do that? Read the Edutopia article to see how they break it down:

4 Things Transformational Teachers Do