This means that you will not condone supervisory behavior that forces all teachers into a common mold. Teachers should be encourage that not all teaching strategies need to be the same. Specifically, teachers must not feel that supervisory staff want them to all use a lecturing mode for all use questioning as the only way to deal with students or all to use a laboratory approach or all utilize small group work or all force students into a self-study mode. Variety is the desired pattern, not sameness. It is a good thing that teachers use different instructional strategies for different topics.
Students deserve some variety to spice up each long day at school.
If you are interested in providing for the individual needs of students in your district and are concerned about improving instruction, your teachers need to feel that you believe that the teacher is the key to a good educational program and that good teachers are encouraged to become great teachers. Before that he was the state mathematics supervisor for the Department of Public Instruction. His graduate degrees are in pure mathematics and educational administration. Free Math Consulting Available School board members, administrators, and others can receive free math education consulting via e-mail from the author. If your questions are clearly stated with adequate supporting information, he will respond in kind via e-mail.