The teaching gap

The teaching gap är en mycket intressant bok som jämför matematikundervisning i USA, Japan och Tyskland. Den utgår från en amerikansk situation som på många vis liknar det läge svenska skolan står inför.
Budskapen i boken är många, kloka och viktiga. Jag kommer säkerligen ha anledning att återkomma i ämnet, men nu vill jag bara citera deras "Vision of the Future":

The star teachers of the twentieth century have been those who broke away from the crowd and created different and unusual methods of teaching. They distinguished themselves by being different, by leaving the standard practice behind. They gained fame by rising above the routine and showing the effectiveness of alternative forms of teaching. Although these efforts won the applause of educational critics, they did not have much effect on standard practice.
The star teachers of the twenty-first century will be those who work together to infuse the best ideas into standard practice. They will be teachers who collaborate to build a system that has the goal of improving students´ learning in the "average" classroom, who work to gradually improve standard classroom practices. In a true profession, the wisdom of the profession´s members finds its way into the most common methods. The best that we know becomes the standard way of doing something. The star teachers of the twenty-first century will be teachers who work every day to improve teaching - not only their own but that of the whole profession.

Basta!