The articles on this website are copyrighted by Metacog Ltd. Permission to reproduce any article in any form must be sought from metacog Ltd . The theme of Good Teacher, Term 3, is Professional Development. It is about continually seeking opportunities to test one's own beliefs and improving one's practices. Teachers count and society needs to treat them as if they count.
Teachers make the world of information become knowledge.
Students must engage in critical thinking. They must analyze, synthesize and evaluate information. They need to be taught how to do this. Brian Storey provides the second in his series on new and interesting approaches to teaching maths. Rob Green maintains that all teachers are teachers of information literacy and in order to teach it they have to learn, themselves, to coach the skills.