His strategy evolved from program leadership to teacher training because he concluded reform needs teacher mindset change and teachers as agents of change.
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Teacher training
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Jiang presents WeChat class groups and livestreamed teacher mentoring as concrete edtech successes because they create fast parent feedback loops and let urban teachers coach rural teachers in real time.
Another panelist says teacher collaboration improves learning more than anything else, yet systems neglect it and overemphasize knowledge transfer instead of classroom habit change in teacher training.
Another panelist distinguishes teacher training from teacher education and argues governments underinvest in teacher development beyond the school system.
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"So I was unaware of this massive cultural opportunity. When I first started in education, 20 years ago in China, and I myself have..."
"...my techniques and strategies over the years. So I switched to teacher training because I felt that if you really want to implement change,..."
"...So that's one major success. Second success is in terms of teacher training. So urban teachers are responsible for mentoring rural teachers. And what..."
"Systems don't focus sufficiently on teacher collaboration, even though we know that teacher collaboration is the one thing that improves learning more than anything..."
"...schools, many of the colleges of education, what we do is teacher training, not teacher education. And governments don't spend more time training or..."
"...years and years, I just wandered around China, trying to do teacher training, trying to promote curriculum reform."
"...rates so why is that China has a great system of teacher training right so you come into the system you have mentors every..."
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The panel's strongest claim is that education reform does not fail first on money or technique.
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