How to be a Great Teacher and make Children better learners

A teacher came to Antano because about twenty-five percent of her students were not keeping up. She would show them a problem and ask them to redo it. They could not. Antano's diagnostic was not about the teaching method. It was about the state the students were in when the instruction was given. The twenty-five percent were not learning because they were not in a state that could learn.

Great teaching is not about better explanation. It is about developing the sensory acuity to read which students have the state that can absorb and which do not, and the conversational skill to shift the ones who need it before the instruction is given. When that happens, the students who were not keeping up begin to.