Most Likely to Succeed

How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?

On the day of the big football game between the University of Missouri Tigers and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player. Shonka has worked for three National Football League teams. Before that, he was a football coach, and before that he played linebacker—although, he says, “that was three knee operations and a hundred pounds ago.” Every year, he evaluates ... Full Story »

Posted by Leo Romero - via New Yorker

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Jim Caruso
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by Jim Caruso - Dec. 14, 2008

First, he gets to the heart of the question of what makes a good teacher. Read the story, but it comes down to perception of a student's engagement and an ability to take the perspective of the student - and by doing so - direct a student's attention towards the material. The parallel discussion, regarding the difficulty of scouting college quarterbacks - and assessing how they might perform as a pro - provides an analogy to the difficulty in assessing who might be a good teacher.

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