Improving the quality of instruction in US schools

Improving the quality of instruction in US schools  ( you can easily find it on youtube )

I chose a podcast from Stanford university, made by Lee Shulman, who is president of the carnegie foundation ( foundation for the advancement of teaching ). In this video, he is having a conversation with three others professors about education in the US.
They discuss on what learning experience needs to be created, and how it needs to be created in our futur. He is debating with Doctor Debra Lundberg, Pr Steven Far and Pr Pamela Grossman, who co-organized the event.

Watch the video, and answer these 20 questions : The answers are in purple, try not to look at them before watching the video.

1 / Where is working the woman on Lee Shulman's left, Debra Lundberg ? University of Michigan.

2 / According to her, what makes a difference in children's learning ? The quality of the interactions the have with content and with other kids.

3 / Pamela Grossman is " director of the center for the support of excellence in teaching "

4 / Where is Pr Steven Far working ? " Teach for America ", a compagny which trains teachers.

5 / For Pr S. Far, on what are we less and less focus ? Recruitment and selection of teachers.

6 / What does P. Grossman wants to evaluate teachers ? A project of classroom observations.

7 / " I believe  the teachers  want to do a good job by kids. But they themselves don't have the tools to do that ".

8 / According to her, what it one of the solution for teachers to evaluate their work ? They should work collectively, giving to each others good feedbacks.

9 / According to D. Lundberg, what should teachers be able to do ? they should be able to call up a parent and have a conversation about the kid's difficulty. they should know how to diagnose common patterns of kids thinking.

10 / Do she cares about the training programm teachers are coming from ? No, because teaching is also about individual differences. She wants quality of skills.

11 / According to P. Grossman, why does Teach for America can be selected ? because they have a lot of people applying for their program.

12 / " I would like to see teaching itself as a valued occupation profession.

13 / For her, what other job pays more than teaching ? Why is salary important ? Plumber, and she wants teaching to become a career parents encourage their kids to go into.

14 / Why undergraduated students does not want to become teachers ? they can't imagine making a living and working under these conditions.

15 / What are the four teachers doing to make students interact with them ? Students are free to ask questions about the debate.

16 / What is Ashley ( one of the student ) going to do next year ? What does she think she is an exemple ? A master for Human development, and because she wanted to become a teacher but her family does not really approve and they don't think she is going to make a career of it.

17 / Why teaching could be concidered as a career ? Because you will have more and more responsabilities, and different kinds of pay over time.

18 / According to D. Lundberg, with who the teacher needs to interact ? With the others concerned about the kid's education : the parents, guardians, grandparents ... they also are caregivers.

19 / For Lee Shulman, why is having a decentralized system a good idea ? because you don't have to try to change everything everywhere at the same time. You can also take advantage of local experiment.

20 / " Make teaching improve, and instruction flourish ".