seminar LINks
The National Great Teachers Seminar, August 10-15, 2008 - Volcano
National Park, Hawai'i
about the ngtm...
The Great Teachers Movement is called a
"movement" because it is not associated with, nor does it constitute a
corporation or an organization of any kind.
Thus, it serves no institutional or
commercial interests. There is no headquarters or address, and there are no
officials, owners, employees or politics. There' are no manuals or handbooks,
only a few simple guidelines... Everything is passed on by oral tradition in
order to prevent the development of any form of true-believership or fixed
procedure which might come to be followed to the letter and of which the
educational profession would soon tire. The many annual Great Teachers Seminars
throughout North America exist and persist only because of the initiative and
selfless ambition of people who want to share the experience with teachers in
their own geographic area."
David B.
Gottshall, College of DuPage
(retired)
Excerpt from
The History & Nature of the Great Teachers Movement (1993)
International events
The
2009 BIGTLC will be held at the
Annapolis Basin Conference Center in
Cornwallis, Nova
Scotia June 15-19, 2009. More details will be posted here when available.
about this web site
The National Great Teachers web site was created by Steve Smith (North Carolina) following discussions at the 2001 West, Texas National Colloquium where the idea of a "web connection" to keep Great Teachers leaders in touch with each other was suggested. Currently, this site is sponsored by David Gottshall and is managed by EmptyBowl.
