{"id":1170,"date":"2012-01-30T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2012-01-28T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:01:48","slug":"what-makes-a-good-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/01\/30\/what-makes-a-good-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by woodleywonderworks on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/73645804@N00\/6549083845\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7026\/6549083845_e3d2e1ae95_m.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Bowling's Opus\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After watching Robin Williams challenge his class to think for themselves in the <em>Dead Poets Society<\/em>, I was left thinking about what defines good teaching. \u00a0A few days later, I watched the State of the Union and listened while President Obama noted that a <em>good <\/em>teacher can increase the lifetime earnings of a class by $250,000. \u00a0So, what is good teaching?<\/p>\n<p>A post last year on one of our sister blogs, Sociology Lens, addresses part of this question by asserting that good teaching is about knowing students as people. \u00a0In the post, Margaret Austin Smith draws upon sociological research to explain what she thinks good teaching is all about. \u00a0Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologylens\/2011\/03\/25\/excellent-teaching\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0But, we&#8217;d also love to hear from you&#8212;what makes a good teacher?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching Robin Williams challenge his class to think for themselves in the Dead Poets Society, I was left thinking about what defines good teaching. \u00a0A few days later, I watched the State of the Union and listened while President Obama noted that a good teacher can increase the lifetime earnings of a class by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}