Media mention: Smagorinsky quoted on making teachers feel valued and supported
In a recent AJC article, Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, discussed how schools can make their teachers feel valued and supported.
“The best way I know of to support teachers is to listen to them,” he said. “Teachers know better than anyone how schools work, what kids need, what teachers need to do their best work. But they’re one of two groups of people nobody solicits input from: kids and teachers. They won’t agree, and you will get contradictory recommendations. But at least they feel recognized, consulted, listened to, and respected when administrators build a school culture around the experiences of the most knowledgeable people in the building.”