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How the media image of the ‘great’ teacher hurts the real-life good teacher - The Washington Post
How the media image of the ‘great’ teacher hurts the real-life good teacher - The Washington PostHow the media image of the ‘great’ teacher hurts the real-life good teacher
By Roxanna Elden
Public debates about teaching often raise some version of this question: How do we figure out what great teachers do differently and then get other teachers to do it?
The why-can’t-every-teacher-be-more-like-this refrain has long been popular. Media stories about the Next Big Edu-Thing begin by presenting the educator who embodies the new trend, whose rapt students lean forward in their seats, or chatter with purpose in self-directed, project-based learning groups, or interact glitchlessly with their school’s new blended-lesson tech tools. Focusing on great teachers seems to be a win for everyone — certainly, it’s less fraught than having to debate what makes a bad teacher.
As someone who spent more than a decade at the front of a classroom, though, these stories didn’t exactly inspire me to new heights in my own pedagogy. In fact, on a bad day, stories starring super-teachers made me feel worse than tales trashing bad ones.
After all, I knew I didn’t fit the media stereotypes of terrible teachers: feet up on the desk, newspaper obscuring my face, tequila bottle hidden in a drawer. But why, I couldn’t help asking myself, was the real-life classroom in front of my tired eyes so much less . . . great than the ones in all those news stories?
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