Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Sleep

• A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001). “How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition”, p.29, ASCD

• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Style

• Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Art, Years

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Assessment, Understanding

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Class

• It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Age, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Curriculum, Students

• Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Space, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• [Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Growing Up, Years

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Kids, Reality

• I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Stress, Thinking

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

• We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Deep Understanding, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

• As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Jobs, Explicit

• We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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