More Research Shows What Most Educators Know: Teachers Get Better As They Gain More Experience

 

For a long time, some researchers claimed that teachers improved in their first few years, but then stopped.

Ridiculous, I know, but if I had a dollar for every time I heard that nonsense, I’d be a very rich man.

It’s been debunked in recent years (see Statistic Of The Day: “For Teachers, Experience Really Does Matter”).

And a new study has stabbed that theory in the heart even further.

You can read the study, Think Again: Do the returns to teacher experience fizzle out?, co-authored by Linda Darling-Hammond.

And you can check out a summary at The 74 – Yes, Teachers Keep Improving with Time.

I’m adding this info to The Best Articles For Helping To Understand Both Why Teacher Tenure Is Important & The Reasons Behind Seniority-Based Layoffs.