TPE Summary

One cannot belittle the importance of each issue and category that each writer attempted to address. Neuroscience, language, culture, classroom management, thinking about thinking, relationship building, academic assessments, are all categories of a much larger system that is known as teaching. Quality teaching contains with it a healthy equilibrium where these systems are all interwoven into a singular system of delivering quality education. Teachers who are skilled in certain areas, like relationship building but lack in other areas, like classroom management, negate their own strengths due to those strengths not being able to have the impact it could. Other teachers who have developed a balance, and conscious systems that bring together these different issues, can have much deeper and long lasting impact. For me, reading about the neuroscience was very interesting. The actual science of the dynamics of the classroom illuminates how the "laws" of the craft of teaching actually do exist. The mastery of the art of teaching takes into consideration such "laws" in the overall pedagogy.