Comments on: Teachers, Time, & Space http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/10/teachers-time-space.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:12:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: John Danner http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/10/teachers-time-space.html/comment-page-1#comment-114355 John Danner Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:02:39 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=4697#comment-114355 This is exactly the path that Rocketship is going down. By using technology for a portion of each child's daily instruction, we leverage teachers' time more effectively and we've been able to raise teacher salaries 20% so far. If we can get to the type of system that the Hassels envision over the next 10 years, we would indeed start producing million dollar teachers. This is exactly the path that Rocketship is going down. By using technology for a portion of each child’s daily instruction, we leverage teachers’ time more effectively and we’ve been able to raise teacher salaries 20% so far. If we can get to the type of system that the Hassels envision over the next 10 years, we would indeed start producing million dollar teachers.

]]> By: Ed Fuller http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/10/teachers-time-space.html/comment-page-1#comment-114321 Ed Fuller Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:40:34 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=4697#comment-114321 Wow--the argument in this paper is based on a lot of assumptions that don't have much research base. Wow–the argument in this paper is based on a lot of assumptions that don’t have much research base.

]]> By: Claus http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/10/teachers-time-space.html/comment-page-1#comment-114244 Claus Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:55:57 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=4697#comment-114244 The 3X for all argument is interesting. My biggest concern with the idea is that the Hassels create another sort of "widget effect." They assume that 3X teachers are an absolute and immutable quantity. They will be 3X teachers every year, and they will be 3X teachers in every environment. At this point, research just doesn't bear out that assumption at all. The "Talent Transfer Project" is attempting to determine the extent to which teacher talents are transferable from one environment to the next. It's a very difficult question. This is not to argue that no teacher is more effective than any other, or that we can't adopt policies or new models to promote better deployment of excellent instruction. It's just that the Hassels have recently displayed a tendency to oversimplify and overstate when they advance their provocative ideas--and to give short shrift to big, big challenges. Their latest work struck me as a caricature of a good idea. The 3X for all argument is interesting. My biggest concern with the idea is that the Hassels create another sort of “widget effect.” They assume that 3X teachers are an absolute and immutable quantity. They will be 3X teachers every year, and they will be 3X teachers in every environment. At this point, research just doesn’t bear out that assumption at all. The “Talent Transfer Project” is attempting to determine the extent to which teacher talents are transferable from one environment to the next. It’s a very difficult question.

This is not to argue that no teacher is more effective than any other, or that we can’t adopt policies or new models to promote better deployment of excellent instruction. It’s just that the Hassels have recently displayed a tendency to oversimplify and overstate when they advance their provocative ideas–and to give short shrift to big, big challenges. Their latest work struck me as a caricature of a good idea.

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