Decision-Maker Quiz to Find Teachers Who Know How to Act on Global Economy Imperatives

by Susan Ohanian, who does not own a SmartPhone or participate in FaceBook This questionnaire, a survey of skills needed in today's education marketplace, facilitates an individual participant's ranking of eligibility for grants from:  Accelerated Reader Achieve Inc all4ed American Federation of Teachers Amplify American Legislative Exchange Council Annenberg Institute for School Reform ASCD Aspen Institute Bellwether Education Partners Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Brookings Institution Business Roundtable Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Center for American Progress Center for Teaching Quality Chic-Fil-A  Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center, Clean Underwear Pedagogy College Board Council of Chief State School Officers Council of Great City Schools Danielson Group: The Framework  Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Democrats for Education Reform  Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Education Trust Editorial Projects in Education Inc (Education Week) Education Writers Association Thomas Fordham Institute Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance Helmsley Charitable Trust Hillary Clinton Inc. Hoover Institute The Hunt Institute  Institute for Education Sciences Learning First Alliance LearnZillion McKinsey & Company National Center on Education and Economy National Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA) National Governors Association Center for Best Practices NEA New America Foundation New Leaders New Teacher Project Inc. New Venture Fund New York Times editorial board Partnership for 21st Century Skills Pearson USA  Preva Group, LLC Relay Graduate School of Education Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Rubrics Inc. William E. Simon Foundation  Southern Regional Education Board Stanford University for Opportunity Policy in Education Stand for Children State Farm  Strategic Management of Human Capital Student Achievement Partners/Achieve the Core Success Academy Charter Schools Teach for America Teachscape Teaching Channel TNTP University of Texas at Austin--Charles A. Dana Center       Urban Education Leadership Program, University of Illinois US Chamber of Commerce US Department of Education US DOE Delivery Institute US News & World Report College Rankings Wallace Foundation Walton Family Foundation

[1] Training students to respect and obey authority must be the critical teacher imperative.

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[2]  Students need to work harder and take more responsibility.

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[3]  Donald Trump could gain education chops by choosing Angela Duckworth as a running mate.

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[4] Successful corporate leaders are the most critical role models for student success in today's competitive world.

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[5] A strong, decisive principal is the fundamental element in a teacher’s classroom success.

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[6]   Successful teachers focus on research-based outcome analytics to plan and evaluate their lessons.

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[7]   We need Federal accountability laws that zero in on students' self-sustaining skills and attitudes.

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[8]  What teachers need most, more than laws and money, are forward-looking, fast-track entrepreneurial leaders to show the way.

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9] Successful lesson plans based on critical analysis of student skill assessment outcomes should be maintained in fire-resistant, self-charging, tamper-proof receptacles containing automatic shut-off valve to prevent over-charging.

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[10]  Students need a research-based understanding of brain function showing them how concentrated effort changes their brains and helps them develop a growth mindset.

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[11]   "You can't manage what you don't measure" is the teaching imperative for instilling a substantial and sustained drive for excellence in how students think, act, and feel.

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[12]   Teachers must be clear and bold about data, using it to ensure that all students are performing at high levels at all times.

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[13] Colleges of education must reform, offering more courses in classroom management and fewer in child psychology and the political foundations of US public education.

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[14] The most important thing we can teach children is to work hard.

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[15] Most of our social problems are caused by people who haven't learned to take responsibility for their own lives.

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[16]   More jobs in the twenty-first century require higher order thinking skills than did jobs of the past.

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[17] The successful teacher  avoids controversy and promotes positive attitudes.

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[18] In today's competitive Global Economy, it is more imperative for students to learn computer coding than foreign language.

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[19]    A teacher's failure to acknowledge that all children must master high level critical thinking skills condemns some children to an environment ow low expectations and unemployment.

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[20] People can be divided into two distinct classes: those who have grit and those who don’t.

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[21 Implementing personalized, cutting-edge, blue-ribbon, networked collaborative solutions must be the priority of every teacher.

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[22]   Rewarding those teacher who produce best-performing education output must be the goal of every education management entity.

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[23] No difficulty can hold  back those teachers who  have enough determination.

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[24]  The US Department of Education must take the lead in institutionalizing world class technology-based new economy skills mandates, starting in pre-pre-K.

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25]   The world would would be a better place if children entered kindergarten knowing Cursive and their times tables.

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Score Analysis

25:   Lead an Opt Out movement in your community.

26-50:  Take a day off and read Captain Underpants. Then write 15  letters to newspapers.

51-75:  Throw off your fear, and do what you know is right.

76-100: Cancel your subscription to Education Week and the Wall Street Journal and stop reading New York Times editorials.

101-125  Admit that Teach for American didn't offer squat in preparing you for teaching but did provide an excellent pathway to corporate ascendancy.

126-150  Apply for a job at KIPP.