Giving Compass' Take:

• Jonathan Haber at EdSurge discusses teacher productivity and how attempts to make teachers more effective can backfire.

• How can teachers help one another for improvement and support? What programs are there available out there? 

• Read about a new way to train teachers. 

In a previous EdSurge piece, I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today).

It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

A hundred years ago, productivity was correlated to the number of workers one could throw onto an assembly line. In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers.

Read the full article about teacher productivity by Jonathan Haber at EdSurge.