The drive to network schools too often focuses narrowly upon cables, hardware and software. Without a stress upon strategic teaching and professional development, districts are unlikely to see a return on their investment. Good teaching is more important than good hardware. Strategic teaching requires thoughtful choices. An effective teacher employs a toolkit of strategies which can dramatically modify student performance provided the choice of tool fits the situation and the individual student.
Timely intervention is required in order to boost performance.
Left undisturbed, most students routinely apply what they already know to tasks. Wrong routines lead to wrong answers . . . The new direction radically improves performance. The student steps out of the bog, exchanges hip boots for running shoes, sprouts wings, sprints at top speed and finally lifts off the ground. The line graph tilts up and to the right.